The Pensacola journal., December 08, 1919, Page 5, Image 5

About The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985

Image provided by: University of Florida

                
THE PENSACQLA JOURNAL., MONDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 8, 1919.
CHATS
Lord Brahma moves In mysterious
ravs to work his ends, the devotees
vf us: and in Sar0!ni Naidu. the
iiindu poetess, we have an example
,f a child, born to sing, whose vocation
KiS so strong within her that train
Er could not thwart it.
garojini Naidu, or more correctly
Cavadu, was born in Hyderabad in
ij-9 of an ancient and learned Brah
ijin'family. which designed her for a
icientific career and planned her edu
ction accordingly. However, when at
lie age of eleven she wrote a poem
instead of solving an obdurate alge
braic equation, this course wisely was
itered and thenceforth her natural
joetic instincts . were carefully nur
tured. - . -
From 1895 to 1S98 she studied in Eng
land, where she was fortunate"' in meet
ing many of the most eminent of the
literati, among them , Gosse and, Sy
jions, who admired the : girl's verse
ir.d gave her useful criticism. When
she returned home, her own resolution
iaengthened by the : broader English
rlew, she defied the vigorous opposi
tion of her family and was married to
Dr. Naidu, a suitor of wealth and tal
nt but of inferior caste. '
From her father Sarojini inherited
loftiness of endeavor and an insatiable
Jesire for perfection. " Aghorenath
Chittopadhyay was a worthy son of a
long line of patrons from ages remote
of Sanscrit learning, a great man and a
treat dreamer, deep-visioned and gen
rrous, with a soul filled, as Pater says
of Leonardo da Vinci, with 'curiosity
and the desire of beauty. : In her son
net in salutation to my father's spirit
re glimpse a splendid character.
whom domestic incongeniality has and quite without consequence; and
It xr&a Edmund Gosse who first ad- thrown upon himself; he is a hyper- Jonathan Makes a Wish is a powerful
vised Mrs. Naidu to consign her early 'sensitive, and takes a perverse pleasure arraignment of elders who would deny
Efforts to the fireand to be a genu- in indulging and studying his reactions, the child the chance to develop his own
ine Indian poet of the Deccan. not a His friend, Father Collett. seeks to de- personality and force him into persuits
clever macWne-made imitator of theVelop the spiritual side of the boy's for whidi temperamentally he is un
English classics. This she did. as ( nature, with the view eventually, of suited,
bravely as young de Maupassant when I brlnsrinir him to the nrlesthood. f -
he watched Flaubert burning his im- J
perfect but precious manuscripts, and
stie set ner goal tne interpretation or
her land to the English people. . How
eminently well she .. has succeeded is
seen in her three books of verse: The
Golden Threshold (with an introduc
tion by Arthur Symons), The Broken
Wing, and The Bird of Time (with an
introduction by Edmund Gosse), all of
which are published by the John Lane
Co. .,' .. -. :.- " ;,7
Mrs. Kaidu has profoundly the 'soul
of an Asiatic, and she reveafs It-with
all the skill , and grace of an English
poet. She has studied her models to
pood effect: here and there a rhythm
or the turn of a phrase suggests
Swinburne, Morris, Shelley or Tenny
son; but she Is always uniquely her
self, but she has achieved- a .degree
of artistic perfection and a mastery of
technique which would be remarkable
in a poet to whom the language is na
tive. I quote from Palanquin-Bearers:
;
Lightly, O lightly we bear her along.
She sways like a flower in the wind
of our song; . ,
She skims a bird on the foam of a
stream '
She floats a laugh on the lips of a
dream -
Gaily, O gaily we glide and we sing,
"U'e bear h?r along like a pearl on a
string.
' This Is Swlnburnian, to tie sure; but
it i3 exquisitely beautiful and has a
subtly charming music Mrs. Naidu
is always exquisite,, and she . has the
power to enter into the very spirit of
her theme and, In a phrase, to conjure
up an host of fleeting images. In
Indian dancers, with its sensuous
rhythms, for example: :- ;
Xow silent, now singing and swaying
and swinging, like blossoms that
bend to the breezes or showers,
Xow wantonly winding, they flash, now
they falter, and, lingering, lan
guish in radiant choir;
Their Jewel-girt arms and warm, wav
ering, lily-long fingers enchant
through melodious hours, - -
Eyes ravished with rapture, celestially
panting, what passionate bos-
soms aflaming with fire!
There is scarcely a- poem without
some special distinction. Leli is one
of the finest modern lyrics, and there
MSG'.
WITH THE BOOKWORM
by WILLIAM DRAKE
are lines like
Come, thou silver-breasted moonbeam
of desire
Or - '
And from, their pierced hearts, rich
with pain ,
- ' - t !,
which might not unworthily have fal
len from Iram's soft lute or have been
sung of IsrafeL Others' are: simple
and sweet; some are' raulty, but these
are infrequent and always redeemed
by some, fine phrase or a delicate bit
of imagery.
.As Gosse, - says 'she spring from
the very soul of India and her spirit
is unsponled by contact with Western
tcivilization. Still she sings her hymns
to Buddha on his lotus throne, eazintr
upon the life about her with eyes pe
culiarly- innau; ana her poems are
il7Z Jl .l tnf east wlth
tb. I 7i2ZUWZ Tk roUS myfuclsm' ana enterprises lends a special interest to
rn : lZ J? g, doW3itff , Ss, hu-(the new collection, of his plays. More
of w divfine' from the long pageant Portmanteau Plays (Stewart & Kidd).
ner past. y ' , . j which Js-edited with an introduction
: - : " . by Edward Hale Bierstadt.
Several years since, Louis Wilkin- The more one COmea to know of Mr.
son ; astonished the public with his Walker the more is he etruck by
T1' 7?. Buffoon. Later the: varied genius of the man. As
appeared A Chaste Man. which finally producer he accomplished the impbssi
established his claim to serious con- ble and I venture to say that many of
siaerauon; and Jus newest book Brute his piays wW find places among our
Gods (Alfred A. Knopf) will place him, permanent contributions to dramatic
if . it be not an . egotism so early to literature. Of the three in the volume
Judge, among the supreme creative wlth wh!,h. w. nrp, Imme,iiaiv r-.
the crushing disillusionment of young
love and the hopeless struggle of a
sensitive young man against the brute
forces of life. Alec Glaive is a lad
Unfortunately - for Collett's designs,
his niece Gillian visits in the neigh-
borhood: and. although she is seven
years- Alec's senior, a strong mutual
attraction results. Following a break
with his father. Alec goes to London,
where Gillian is employed as a fern-
inlst leader. She is charminc and
broad-minded, but haunted bv a fear
that the disparity in age would deaden
Alec's love after the first heat of pas-
sion had passed; and her continual
references to this obstacle at last ac-
complishes the result.
His dream shattered, - Alec returns
home; he confesses to Collett, who ac- Mr- ..Merwm nas always teen supe
knowledges Gillian as an illegitimate rIor to the average of popular novel-
daughter, and they two arrange to en-
ter a monastery. At this last period,
Alec resembles Huysmans; he has no
deep religious feeling, but. loathing the .
world for its submission to its brute
paid homage; paid blindly, now. to
those outraging brute forces their
greatest tribute, their ultimate tribute.
Mr. Wilkinson is especially success-
ful with his rharaptera.. Karh Rtands
out distinctly; Wilfred Vail, cousin to
the Cyprian Strange of A Chaste Man;
Stephen Glaive, with his malicious , The Harvest Home is the singular
irony and -, egotistical narrowness; iy appropriate title given the collected
cynical, commonplace Mervyn; Aunt poems ' of James . B. Kenyon (James
Cathy, morose in her blighted happi-
ness; poor little Frippy Clark, the sen-i
timental Carlyon-Williams. The book by his numerous contributions to va
is an achievement, and Alec "Glaive is rious magazines and by the several
worthy to take his place beside the slender volumes of his verse former
Richard Feverel of Meredith. y published; and it is with pleasure
- that we see the waifs from his pen thus
Another distinctive is Heritage (Do- gathered into a permanent form,
ran), by V. Sackyille Wst. It is a For Dr. Kenyon is no mere verse
tale of the Weald of Kent, 'where Eng- maker, but a genuine poet. By nnture
lish is spoken broad and rude. as old he 18 Wordsworthian, loving the birds
Caxton hath It. Malory, the narrator, and. trees and flowers and the breath
is a student of life who, fleeing from oE sweet winds blowing across ripen
business anxieties J.o a vacation on a ed fields. His verse-forms are the
farm, chances upon an excellent sub- simplest. he finds inspiration in the
ject for observation. . "same things that Herbert, Crashaw,
In Ruth Pennistan is fused a dual and an hundred others sang; but he is
hwitaee of veoman stoiiditv and Srin. a thoro craftsman and the " old-fash-
ish passion, and she is torn continual
Iy between these conflicting tempera
ments. The English side of her nature
loves Malory, but the southern is drawn
by an influence almost hypnotic - to
Rawdon VTestmacott. 'a Bedouin" in
corduroy, with a thin, fierce face, the spontaneity, especially when he sings
grace of an antelope, and the wildnfjss of the beauties of , nature. He is an
of a hawk.' Ruth marries Rawdon, but early Victorian, born out of season,
there was never love between them and the-unspoiled purity of his verse
and at last lie deserts her freeing Comes as a welcome relief from the
and, at last, ne aeserts ner, ire-ing elangoroug discords of the; modern-
her for Malory. . 'J ists. Miss Doris Kenyon also is rep
There is a ruggedness and strength resented by nine poems, all of which
AIL
N
(EQDATTSo SUDTTSc, SCiDDSirSo FlIDD - Q -
Shop Mow for G
q 0
about Heritage that, in a peculiar wav.
suggests Wuthering Heights, but the
parallel way may not In kindness be
wholly rustic and the picture- of the
Kentish grange,, with its 'simple mo
notony of life, authentic. Mr. West's
name is unfamiliar to me, unless he be
the British ambassador who made him.
self disliked during Cleveland's admin
istration, but this is a matter of no
consequence. He handles his difficult
materials with masterly precision: the
outlines are large and rough, and the
iinai effect more of a rudely-hewn
statue than of a finished picture. His
style is somewhat heavy, vand he is
almost Jamesian in his complete de
tachment and preoccupation with sub
tle analysis; and he writes like an old
man, world-weary, who seeks to ease
his heart before he dies.
The Vide success of Stuart Walker's
cerned; .The Lady of the Weeping Wil-
m many ways one of the finest bits of
romantlc writing in the language. It is
a masterpiece. The Very Naked Boy
is a whimsical trifle, auite delierhtful
It appears to me that The Passion
ate Pilgrim (Bobbs-Merrill) is by
much the best story Samuel Merwm
has "written. The protagonist, . Henry
Calverly, is a familiar figure, with
nis genius, nis innate nonesny ana nis
exasperating lacK-oi aecision ana sen-
confidence. But he is human all too
human, perhaps and Mr. Merwm
merits praise for his courage in
departing from the conventional ro-
mantle type and unsparingly anaiyz-
lrg a man wno is a man, wiw au nis
faults ana virtues.
1313 ana m lne v-
approacnes a oegree 01 greatness no
nas a promising theme ana ior tmrry-
eISnt cnapters, aeveiops it spiynumu,
men mars tne eiiect oy iurcie ai.
happy ending. Perhaps I lack Mr.
-Merwms optimistic iuiui m me
eventual triumph of right, but to me
he ; seems above the crude expeaient
01 straining a conclusion 10
romanticism, i reel inai ne comu ub
an artist if he chose.
;
x. White & Co.)
. T)r. Kenyons work is well known
loned serenity and chaste simplicity
of his verse Is most charming. 7
Altho there are 400 poems in this
volume. Dr. Kenyon's inspiration
seems never to have failed, and his
worK is marKea Dy a rare ease ana
i N G O
T(UP
W
ls3 3E "3? 35S TET 3E3E 353 13
are surprisingly good and richly prom- j
isuig. . 1 xeresimg ootn in itseit ana as an
' experiment in a new form. The book
One of the most interesting recent Is a collection of twenty stories, all
books is Short Stories from the Bal- very short, written in the sketchy mod
kans (Marshall Jones Co.), a cdllec- ernist style. Miss .-. Reed, however, is
tlon of thirteen typica modern stories different from most of her fellows be
from the eleven foremost Czech, Mon-' cause there is something more in her
tenegran, Rumanian, Serbian, Croatian, stories than colorful metaphores. Each
and Hungarian writters. translated by
Edna Worthley Underwood, ivelops with little touches and passing
Each of these tales is distinctly in- strokes. They are the best things of
dividual and beautifully written. The their kind I have ..seen since Turge
book opens a literature all but un- nief fs prose pastels,
known to-English-speaking readers and .The difficulty with most rebels from
which, if this collection may be re- accepted forms is that, in their seek
garded as representative, holds much after naturalistic effects, they car
ta store for the adventurous trans- ry It to an extreme of nonsense. In
la tor. It is to be desired that this Miss Reed's stories, however, the re
book will have the success It deserves, volt is rationalized and, in giving us
that thereby , Mrs. Underwood, whose really good tales in the new form,
translations, are always remarkable, she has made a constructive step for
may be encouraged to further efforts, ward.
We are an odd race, with our de-J
votlon to tradition and our sentimental
way or venerating the great rigures or,
our history. We refuse to consider
our national heroes as human beings;
we set them serene upon a pedestal
in the Haii of Fame, thinking always
41 .JJ..-- 1
and forgetting the little weakness that
made them men. '
This is the. fault of most "biog
raphers; they present the ; man, not
as he really was, but as hero-worshiping
sentimentalists would have him.
But every great man or small has evil
and good impulses. Why, then, is not
both sides of his nature presented?
Why must "he be forced to wear : in
death an halo of mawkish righteous
ness which in life he would have
scorned? ,-
- Give me, rather than these impossi
ble saints, a man with the, breath of
life in him, like Benvenltd or Augus
tine. The greatest modern biography
is Frank Harris' Oscar Wilde, because
the author is catholic in spirit and
paints his subject as he was in ' life,
in weakness as well as strength. .
John Brown, Soldier of Fortune: A
Critique (The Cornhill Co.). by Hill
Peebles Wilson, is not the ideal biog
raphy, but it does much to counteract
the saccharine trend of other similar
works. Mr. Wilson has made a pains
taking study of the documents relating
to Brown, and views him as a fanati
cal adventurer, rather than as a
martyr. The view is original, but a
little, one-sided, unless the present con
ception Is altogether in error. The
book stands in Interesting contrast to
Oswald Garrison Villard's John Brown
(Houghton Miff In), the best of the
biographies partisan to the hero of
Harper's Ferry.
Georges Duhamel, whose Civiliza
tion was honored with the Prix Gon
court, appears again in The New Book
of Martyrs .(Doran) translated by
Florence Simmons. I quote in part my
review of this book in a recent Issue
of The Dial:
. . . There Is a simple, polg
: nant realism in this collection of
sketches of the parorama of pain
and fortitude witnessed by a
French military surgeon that goes
far to compensate for the irritating
style in which it is written. M.
Dunhamel knows the tortured life .
he portrays, and only those who
have gazed upon the same suffer
ing can realize how terribly real ;
it is, this 'learning to live in Death's
company, ; - :
He has lived among: those braye
men whose lips smile while their .j.
eyes drip tears of anguish; he has
trodden those gloomy corridors
carpeted with pain, between the
long rows Of cots laden with de-
spair; and the stories he tells of .
the sufferers these martyrs of a
new age, .are not mere fictions:
,ihey are genuine, heartrending,
tranches de lavie, of a life terrible
to contemplate, told . with a rare
simplicity and lighted by a splen
did ssmpathy. They are a new
Ave, Caesar, motriturl to salutant,
Nietzsche says that suffering en
nobles; and surely it is no com
mon nobility to which their marty
dom has raised these men. It is a
spiritual exalatatlon that fills
their souls and transcends the
sordidity and the commonplaces of
thfcir lives, and imparts to them a
' higher vision whih they feel withr
in them even if they cannot under
stand it. M. Duhamel has seen
these things in the dying eyes of
his countrymen, and he passes them
on to us In The New Book of
Martyrs.
Futurist. Stories (Mitchell Kenner-
'LIS) Mj$
U T E NT II RE STOCK
ley), by Margery Verner Reed, is ln-
has a definite theme, which she de-
.1
(GERMANS GET
... pTpATTTri XTfTPTT'
IVluUIvUllij iiUllJ
. tt ihj 4
government Heads Called on to
Yield Immediately to Allied
Demands on Protocol.
Paris, Dec. 6. Germany win be called
upon in a rigorous note, which the
supreme council of the peace confer
ence will complete today to yield im
mediately to the Allied demand that
the!; protocol of the Versailles treaty
be signed, according to the Excelsior.
The newspaper says it has reliable in
formation that Washington has ad
vised Berlin to adopt a more concilia
tory attitude. , .
If ratification is not completed by
December 81, says the Echo De Paris,
certain clauses of the pact will be
rendered impracticable . and the allies
will be obliged to submit to Germany
Sprays and Local Appli
' cation Will Not
Cure Catarrh
Don't deceive yourself,' if by1 th
persistent use of sprays, douches)
salves and other local applications!
you have stopped the discharge fronj
your nose and throat. The trouble
will return in a more aggravated form.
It Is said that the glands ' of th
nose and throat act as an '"emergenv
cy plug for the human sewage sys
tem ; that when the kidneys, skin an4
lungs are unable to properly disposs
of some, of the impurities that collect
n those - organs, such impurities are
thrown out throuah the glands of the
throat traceable to impure blood. .
Head colds, due to exposure, must
not be confused with that chronic.
aggravated condition of the nose -and
throat traceable to Impre blood
The best way to relieve this con-i
dltlon of chronic catarrh is by cleans
Ing the blood of all Impurities that
have collected in the system. There
no better treatment than Plough's
Prescription C-2223. the great blco
purifier. This reliable alterative pre-
script ion treatment corrects the im-i
pure state of the blood, gives the tis
sues an opportunity to exercise thel
normal functions and results in the
relief of the catarrhal condition so
dangerous to good health.
To secure the best results in taking
Plough's Prescription C-2223. the liver
Should be made active and the boweld
Regular. 2223 Liver Pills are -recom-i
mended especially for this purpose
JThese pills do not sicken or gripe
One pill is a dose and only three need
be taken a week to keep the liver anc
bowels Jn a healthy condition.
. Plough's Prescription C-2223 can Da
upplied yon by any good druggist hi
large bottles for $1.60, the Pills for1
fc5c; or the 2223 Laboratory, Memphis,
tTenru. will mail both postpaid on ren
' . - ... . Y t J
pelp of samples 01 me .uive
pills and leaflet regarding Plough's;
Prescription C-2223 will be sent yot
without charge on receipt of this clip-
ping witrrtiame and address.
Prescription
5
- .
M
UTBURSTS
by
to .LA AT- -T--i. A. -T- 311V
. 1 v tin --r
IvHO HAS F3Nr5XE VoU CMCe. A BROTHER.
iN tHS flST jJ THeR IS NO KNOWN CORC
poR HUMAK) INSlTTl-nJp TVJT ' THAT
kie&I5MT K03 FftOM TlQVI ivi C2. TO
a new protocol, which will result in
still further delay. -
Paris, Dec. 6. The text of the reply
to be' made to the allied and associated
powers to the latest communication
from Baron Kurt von Lersner, head of
the German peace mission, ' regarding
the original allied demand ". for the
signing of the protocol putting the
peace treaty into effect, submitted to
Germany on November 1, was unani
mously adopted by the supreme coun
cil today. Premier Clemenceau pre
sided over the session.
-Baron von Lerner's communication
which was received by-Premier Clem
enceau Thursday declared the allies
were misinformed regarding their corn-
The management of the San Carlos announces
limited classes in dancing in the .7'
SAN CARLOS AUDITORIUM :
Miss Gladys Tompkins, of Mobile, graduate in fancy, stage
dancing of Alviene, and in ball room dances of Chalif,
Duryea & Serova of New York,
Private or-class lessons for ladies, gentlemen and chil
dren, beginning Monday. " "
For further information "phone Miss Tompkins at San
Carlos Hotel,v No. 2080. . . .1
w
DFJEDSu
of EVERETT TRUE
CON D O
IamV ,T fi)ni II tnVi-t-
- . i ' v w w
'A
plaint that Germany was exceedliv ?
tar the limit of military forces j.f-'
mitted her under the treaty. Von L-is-ner
declared the' government had n--1..-sought
to conceal the fact that the ere- .'
ation of detective police forces ui.d
treaty. ' t,
Germany added the German j.lcjtl--.
civic guards would be necessary, a.r.d
that the German government was yvb."
pared to submit proofs to Gemu'I
Colett, head of the entente con;n-ti;s
sion of control in Berlin, that these ;. -ganizatlons
were permissible unue: -,v
potentiary was ready to- discuss
question immediately with the ,t!:. i
and was not seeking to avoid cavrsicjr
out the treaty terms.
3