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The Book-Stalls on the Quays Charles L. Seeger.

"When all is said and done, I know of no from the young man who has been urging the pleasure more peaceful than that of looking for books on the quays. From the dust which attractions of the latest "best seller". covers the contents of those humble stalls one But do not delude yourself with the idea evokes a thousand ghosts, some terrible, others charming. One converses with the multitude that you will eventually escape the humble of the dead, whom one meets there. The book-stalls with a full purse. The very day Elysian Fields, so vaunted by the ancients, offered nothing to the wise after death that the when you feel no immediate need of adding to Parisian does not find on the quays in this your library may witness your return home, life If I have ever tasted the sweetness of having been born in the city of generous burdened with half a dozen volumes, ranging thoughts, it has been while sauntering from the from duodecimo to in-quarto, done up in an Palais Bourbon to Notre Dame. All the way one hears the very stones telling of the most old newspaper, with perhaps a few more peeping beautiful of human adventures,— the history from your pockets. It is my firm belief that of ancient and modern France. It is there that I feel most keenly the labors of generations, the an inventory of the real booklover's library progress of ages, the continuity of a people, will reveal a greater number of books, purchased the sacredness of the deeds done by our fore fathers, to whom we owe our liberty and our by chance on the spur of the moment, than " studious leisure those deliberately selected. This is especially Anatole France. true of the collector of limited means. It is is a fascination in a few rows of old generally the parvenu who possesses complete THEREbooks, exposed for sale in the open air, sets of the "standard authors", in bindings far more compelling than that of a like to match the color of his or his wall stacked neatly on the shelf of a book paper. shop. They are so hospitable and friendly, It will be seen, then, that the humility of the those dusty volumes, willing and even anxious book-stall is not without its financial advantage, that you should make their acquaintance, ready but this detracts not in the least from its fasci to go with you at once and be your companion nation, which is common to its kind, whether it be for the rest of your life if you will but choose. located on the noisy pavement of Fourth Avenue, How often it happens that we turn reluctantly below Union Square, in New York, under the away from a window filled with attractive books, awnings of Charing Cross Road in London, unwilling to lift the latch because of that instinct along the Prado in Madrid or tucked among ive dread of an undignified and apologetic exit the booths of a village fair in Italy. None of without having made a purchase! The book these, however, can pretend to equal in extent stall, on the contrary, demands no sacrifice of or in interest the long line of etalages, stretching delicacy nor of self-esteem. "One converses from the Quai d'Orsay to the Quai de la Tour- with the multitude of the dead" without sense nelle. One need not be a Frenchman, nor be of intrusion and, if the conjunction of the gifted with the genius of an Anatole France to desirer and the desired fails to occur, there be thrilled by the magic which he so charmingly is no gauntlet to be run, no tomahawks are describes. It is a long walk, a journey into thrown in the shape of supercilious glances the past, if one starts opposite the Gare d'Orsay

195 amidst the hubbub of present day transportation must read just one more chapter. And so one and saunters toward the quieter precincts of wanders on. Treasures, by the way, are very, the Quai Voltaire. The books to be found very scarce, as is quite natural when one thinks between the great railway station and the of the thousands who pass, to say nothing of^the Pont Royal reflect the character of that busy bouquinistes own knowledge of his wares. He is quarter and appeal rather to the traveller, who apt to be something of a bibliophile himself wishes to beguile the weary hours in the train and if a rare volume falls into his hands, either with a detective story, than to the studious. he knows the collector who will pay the highest But the better books are not absent even here, price or else he writes in pencil on the fly-leaf the prices are most elastic and the bouquinistes a figure which dashes the hopes of the treasure- lack the hauteur of their colleagues to the seeker. When reproached for his high preten eastward. sions he has been known to put an end to further Just beyond the Pont Royal, when you have negotiations by stating that he prefers to keep succeeded in threading your way between the it for his own delectation. interminable line of taxis, hurrying back and A connoisseur of some thirty years' experience forth over the bridge, you will find several once told the writer that the only place to find stalls filled with novels and back numbers of a veritable treasure was in la boite de dix sous, magazines in En^ish, presided over by an amiable which corresponds to those disreputable piles lady who replies in perfect Cockney to the on English and American book stalls labelled foreigner's inquiries in halting French. Here "Your Choice For 10 Cents". These are also are plenty of the Tauchnitz editions which common enough on the quays and comprise became so scarce in war time. But it is not hundreds of torn pamphlets, thumbed text until you have passed the neighbouring displays books, semi-erotic novels and government stat of lithographs, copies of 18th century prints istics printed in the time of Louis-Philippe. and other odds and ends that you emerge into I do not question my informant's accuracy but the true atmosphere of the quays. The greater I should feel much surer of acquiring a hostile part of the traffic has been diverted to the Rue microbe for nothing than a friendly volume for du Bac and the Rue Bonaparte as the street a fraction of its value. It may be added that widens into the Quai Malaquais. The book gloves are not superfluous even if one avoids the collections have improved in quality and become boite de dix sous.

more and more tempting. One can stop now After gazing with due reverence at the dome and then, without being jostled or run over, of the Palais Mazarin —the coupole which to enjoy the silhouette of the Louvre or that shelters the august gatherings of the forty particularly pleasing view up the river with Immortals — there are more books to be perused, Voltaire in the foreground, the turn of the road and often good ones too, as one approaches around the side of the Institute and a few the Mint where the book-stalls give place to arches of the Pont Neuf in the distance. collections of medals and coins. Do not be Hereabouts one box of enticing volumes seduced by the medals for you can do much better crowds another on the parapet. They are of in the Mint itself, where replicas in silver or all ages, sorts and conditions. It takes but little bronze of the most beautiful specimens of historic time to look over the tides and one goes on to and artistic interest can be purchased at reason the next stall hoping to find there, if not a treasure, able prices. Opposite the foot of the Rue Gue- at least something really desirable. It is like negaud, almost in front of Lucien Gougy's book an amusing book divided into very shop (where, by the way, one is not importuned short chapters, — one can not lay it down but or bothered but may examine rare books at

1% will) there are stalls devoted to prints, good, bad ment is a station of the Paris-Orleans and to and indifferent. By patiently looking through this proximity as well as the cross-town traffic the many portfolios one occasionally discerns we shall have to ascribe the deterioration in something worth while. The proprietor is quality. Let us go on, however, as far as the friendly and accommodating, with no exaggerat Petit Pont and take refuge in a hospitable cafe ed notions regarding the value of his wares. on the corner, from whose windows there is a

We have now arrived at the Pont Neuf and, fine view of the facade of Notre Dame. The if it is a summer afternoon and we have picked sight of those historic towers can not but heighten up a book or two I can imagine no greater the interest of the purchases one has made. pleasure than to descend the steep stone staircase behind Henri IV, which leads to the delightful little garden called the "Vert Galant" in honor of that same gay monarch, and there find a bench where we may rest and begin to read the book that has caught our fancy. I have inad vertently drifted into the plural, but it must be remembered that the Vert Galant is a place rather to be visited alone, with a book as one's sole companion, unless, of course, the perfect human companion is available. Here on the very prow of the Cite, facing the silent traffic Seine, of the there^is no room for idle talk and an impertinent word would mar its charm. Quiet reflection or intimate accord are alone permissible. Under the superb arches of the great bridge come the lines of bulky canal boats, towed by comparatively diminutive tugs with politely lovered funnels, as if saluting, the majesty of the time-honored structure. Into the lock at the left an equally long line of barges is being admitted and skilfully stowed "Un Veritable Ami de la Saine Literature" away. Down the river, beyond its many From an Old Print in the Musce Carnavalel of M Director of the Museum bridges, the horizon widens and the scene is Couttesv Boucher. being set for one of those magnificent sunsets You may stay as long as you like, you will not which will soon lend^a marvellous patine to be hurried nor will your stay at a favorite table the old stones of the Pont Neuf and bring out near the window be grudged ; a single consom- every detail of the row of masks supporting its mation, be it coffee, or cassis, or fine, entitles one cornice. to spend hours in a Parisian cafe, even to demand But if your pilgrimage is undertaken on one writing paper, envelopes, the ink-pot and an of these days of late autumn or early winter ancient pen for one's correspondence. you will prefer to continue your walk along the When the shower is over, —one of those dis Quai des Grands Augustins, where the books creet drizzles which come unannounced in induce one still to linger until they give place Paris, and which end as suddenly as they begin — near the Pont St. Michel to sheet music and even it will be worth while to go down the steps to the less attractive merchandise. Beneath the pave level of the river, not only because it is the best

197 point from which to see the south side and the whose titles become familiar in inverse pro apse of Notre Dame but also for the varied portion to their contents. One is prepared industries or diversions pursued there. Women to run against "Telemaque", "Gil Bias" and are busily re-filling mattresses, a barber is "Les Miserables" at every turn, even as one ruthlessly hacking away the stubble from the would expect to find "Don Quixote" in Madrid grimy chin of a longshoreman whose comrades or "Pickwick Papers" in London. But I have gibe at his sufferings, artists in slouch hats and never been able to discover a reason for the voluminous ties are painting vivid purple evident past popularity, equalled only by the pictures of the Cathedral, while the patient present desuetude, of a book in several volumes fishermen dangle their legs from the edge of and in every conceivable binding, waiting the river wall. Quite a different Paris from disconsolately and repeatedly for a purchaser that of the Grands Boulevards! at each succeeding book-stall, and entitled Climbing again to the street by the rickety "Voyage du Jeune Anacharsis en Grece". It is steps near the Pont de la Tournelle one finds generally in spick-and-span condition and would books, and still more books, until one reaches adorn any gentleman's library. Curiosity once, the Pont Sully which leads to the upper end of and only once.^got the better of me to the extent the He St. Louis and tempts the saunterer to of a few minutes' perusal of its pages, which explore that peaceful and retired spot where revealed that the young Anacharsis met and autos and trams cease from troubling and where conversed with all the people worth knowing, many books have been, and still are being, including Diogenes and Plato, the author's written. evident intention being to give his readers a Although the quays of the Cite and even chance to nibble at ancient history in a pleasant those of the right bank of the Seine, are not way. Another book one is sure to find on the destitute of book-stalls, they do not as a rule quays is a French translation of the poet Young,

compare in interest with those of the rive gauche with the cacophonous title : "LesNuits d 'Young." and therefore we may c.nsider that we have The former demand for both these books was seen the best part of the out-door library of not confined to France, for it is a fact that in Paris. For a more exact description, even to Mexico and Madrid you will find "El Joven the names of the bouquinistes and where each Anacharsis" and "Obras de Young" staring may be found, reference should be made to at you from the bookstalls as anxiously and that amusing and instructive book, "Le Long numerously as they do on the quays of the Seine. des Quais" (*), by Charles Dodemann, bookseller, Another class of book which finds its way bibliophile and writer, who tells authoritatively, unerringly to the quays, and even helps to fill from his own experience, of the tribulations, the boite de dix sous, is the unfortunate publi disappointments and successes of his colleagues cation of too generous an , which has along the quays, as well as the peculiarities belied the hopes of author and publisher. — of their prey the elusive bouquineur. Unhappy is the writer who, as he strolls by, sees the fruit of his intellect perishing from * * * exposure to the elements and thrice unhappy he, who sees the copy which he autographed and The habitual frequenter of the places where sent to an eminent critic, languishing, with second-hand books are for sale is often puzzled leaves uncut, upon the parapet! by the ubiquity of certain literary productions, The tragic fate of these dedicated copies

* brings to mind a charming tale of the quays Le Long des Quais, Charles Dodemann, Les Editions Callus," 15, Rue de Verneuil, Paris. by that inimitable story-teller, M. Pierre Mille.

198 An innocent country lad, Baptiste by name, In the beautiful passage from "Pierre Noziere", enters the service of an eminent Academician quoted at the beginning of this paper, M. Anatole who receives many presentation copies, some France tells us that, "from the dust which covers from publishers and others from the authors, the contents of those humble stalls one evokes distinguished or otherwise, with more or less a thousand ghosts, some terrible, others charm fulsome dedications upon the fly-leaves. These ing . I have sometimes wondered if these books accumulate so rapidly that Baptiste is words inspired a young friend whom I knew despatched to the garret, from time to time, in the autumn of 1917 when he was in Paris bearing armfuls of volumes which do not merit for a few days only, on furlough, and who the honor of a place in his master's library. left with me, on his return to the front, some Baptiste suggests that a sale of the books would verses which he had written after a walk along bring in a considerable sum to monsieur, who, the quays in the late afternoon. He was a however, does not approve, out of regard for sober Scotchman, Abernethy by name, and nei the feelings of the donors. Baptiste remarks ther his character nor the aspect of the quays that monsieur has great delicacy but, not being on that bleak November day seemed likely troubled with any excess of that quality himself, to give rise to thoughts of love and romance. proceeds to sell the superfluous books on his It was only a few months later, in one of the own account. He soon discovers that auto fierce engagements that took place during the graphed copies command a higher price than retreat of the British army in the Somme, that those received directly from the publishers and, he was killed. I kept the poem in memory of in order to increase his profits, he supplies the the brave man that he was and it is appended missing dedications, copying the most flattering because in its unpolished lines there may be inscriptions that he can remember. The busi found something of the glamour that the quays ness goes swimmingly until one day his purchas of the Seine cast upon the mind and heart of er, a bouquiniste on the quay, bursts into un the lover of books. controllable laughter when he opens a volume offered to him by the thrifty Baptiste and hand ing it back, points to the title "Traite de la Vie et de la Mort" and to the inscription To M. Sebastien Mahaut, my master and friend, — Francis Bacon"! Upon learning that he had signed the name of a monsieur who had been in his grave for some four hundred years, Baptiste loses heart and abandons his lucrative practices for fear of further anachronisms.

A few days later he asks his master :

"Does Monsieur always know whether they are alive or dead the people who write these books?" "Naturally," replied M. Sebastien Mahaut, with some surprise- For the first time since he had known him Baptiste had a feeling akin to admiration for his master- Until then he had always taken him for a poor sort of man- Bouquinistes pres Notre-Dame "Monsieur knows a devil of a lot!" he admitted. By T. F. Simon. Cliche loaned by J. Alexis, Paris.

199 The Same Old World : A 's Fancy

James Abernethy.

Between two bookstalls, on the parapet So deeply my desire, side by side, That bounds the Quai before the Institute, Two figures in the dusk at the creneau. There is a gap just wide enough to let human beings, whom it not Two may suit Mayhap they had at first been occupied be each from the other To far apart, With contemplation of the scene below, on the wall and Lean elbows gaze upon The twinkling lights along the river side, river, The where it penetrates the heart The Louvre's silhouette, the evening sky,— Of Paris, whose proud beauty Babylon But for the moment eye looked into eye Nor surpassed. o'er, Ninevoh My labors And lips were pressed to lips. In close embrace have I there, view, Oft stopped looked upon the They clung, oblivious of time and place. Pausing awhile from quest of musty lore, And wondered why that space seemed made them so, and, as I went my way. [for two. IJeft Wondered if haply that old volume had Worked such strange magic that those lovers may One night in late November I did pass Have been Paolo and Francesca, clad That very spot, a frown upon my face In modern guise, but living o er And disappointment in my heart. Alas, The day they closed the book and read no more ; With reason, too, because within an ace Or Guinevere and Launcelot that glad night I was of reaching there and bearing home Whenas he clypped and kissid that swete wyght. A treasure I had spied the day before, The book so near it was to that fair cheek, A sixteenth century in-quarto tome Held in her lover's hand, it seemed not strange That told of lovers famed in days of yore. That from its leaves Iseult had stepped, to speak The price was fifty francs, too high, I thought ; With Tristan and fond kisses to exchange. The bouquiniste inexorable, proud, Had spurned my offer, so, before I bought, I let a day go by, but meanwhile vowed So after all I made my own romance j To pay the price rather than lose the prize. To compensate my previous mischance, And so no wonder that I was annoyed And when I got my book next morn at eight To find I was too late, — to realize I found that I had brought it up to date, How on my shelves a lamentable void For in each tale I read what I had seen Must be unfilled for twelve hours more. I turned Only the night before with my own eye Sadly away, but as I turned descried. And on the title-page nineteen seventeen Not three feet from the treasure that concerned Might have replaced MDXVII.

200 Some Pacts about the American Library in Paris

History The American Library in Paris, incorporated in 1920, received as a gift from the American Library Association the collection of books made by it in its War Library Service, and later, a contribution of $25,000 towards endowment. Objects (1) To serve as a memorial to those American soldiers for whom it was first established, (2) to promote among students, who are given free use of the Library, journalists, and men of letters in France, acquaintance with American literature, institutions, and thought, and (3) to supplement the meagre collections of American books in existing public in Paris. Rooms. Books. Staff. Located at the center of Parisian civic life, near the Place de la Concorde and opposite the Elysee, the Library occupies a beautiful old hotel, the first floor of which is devoted largely to the open shelf collections, the second to periodical and newspaper reading rooms, and

the third to offices. Its book collections number over 20,000 volumes, of which 25 % relate

to history, travel and biography, 13 % to literature, and 9 % to the social sciences. It also receives 146 periodicals and newspapers, the use of which in the building is free. The staff of the Library numbers fifteen. Of these nine devote themselves to the assistance of readers in the selection of books and to answering questions presented in person or by letter, three to the classification and cataloguing of additions to the Library, and three to general supervision, correspondence, and editorial work. A Center of Information about Europe for Americans. In addition to the general book and information service which it renders to its members, the Library is giving special service to American students and tourists in France, and through American libraries to Americans who have never visited France. A Center of Information about America for Europeans The Library is also giving special service to French students, teachers, journalists, men of letters, business men and women, who desire information about American literature, insti tutions and thought. ' Income

Derived from an endowment of Frs. 400,000 ; from patrons, presenting Frs. 5,000 or over ; from life members, paying Frs. 2,000 ; from annual members, paying Frs. 100, with an initial fee of Frs. 100 ; and from subscribers unable to become members, who pay Frs. 25 a year for each card issued to them, — less than half the cost of the service they receive. The total income of the Library last year, exclusive of gifts from the United States, was Frs. 141,422 ;

its expenditure was Frs. 323,622, of which 65 per cent was for service, 27 per cent for books and supplies and 8 per cent for rent Larger Membership Necessary In order that this expenditure may be continued and increased and the Library made inde pendent of subventions from the United States for its ordinary service, a larger membership in Paris and in other parts of Europe is necessary. Such membership entitles the individual to receive the illustrated literary review, Ex Libris, published monthly by the Library, and to borrow books and periodicals from the Library whether resident in Paris or not.

20] A INTERIOR OF MEDIEVAL HOSPITAL in A ward in the Hotel-Dieu, Paris, an shown a miniature in the "Livre de Vie Active" public la Louise "Les et Charite a Paris au reproduced in Dorothy Mackay's Hopitaux XIII' siecle" (Champion). The indicates that two the same bed, and Miss that three, or more

picture in patients occupied Mackay says were sometimes cared for this same manner. English Studies in Czechoslovakia

VlLEM MATHESIUS

^r. V. Mathesius holds the Chair of English But there was no directing centre of such Language and Literature at the Charles efforts for closer acquaintance with English University, Prague, and has for many years civilization, for English was not included in the taken a foremost part in promoting the study curriculum of any widely attended Czech school. of English culture in Czechoslovakia. This 1870, a of non-humanistic article was first published in the Central When in new type European Observer, April 14, 1923.) higher school was created in Austria (the so- called Realschulen), English was included, in addition to French, in the curriculum of intellectual and literary in the German schools only, while in the corres fluence has played an important ENGLISH role ponding Czech schools German was so empha in the development of Czechoslovakian sized that there was no room left for English. civilization. In old times it appeared at one of Only at Czech higher commercial schools the most decisive movements of Czech history, (the so-called Commercial Academies, the oldest in the Hussite movement (John Wycliffe), and in of them founded in 1872) has English been the modern period, dating from the end of the taught from the beginning. eighteenth century, it has been permanent. Even for the small number of such schools A succession of great translations from English it was, however, difficult to get adequately poetry belongs to the milestones of modern Czech trained teachers, for no steps were taken towards literature (Milton's "Paradise Lost ", by Josef making English a part of scientific instruction Jungmann in 1811 ; two complete translations of at the Czech University. Shakespeare's plays, the one in 1854-1872, the At the old University of Prague, common other in 1888-1922), and Macpherson, Byron and both to the Czechs and the Germans, an English Shakespeare are often cited names among the Seminary had existed since 1876 (Seminar fur formative influences, which have helped to Franzosische'Jund Englische Philologie),"Ibut determine the growth of modern Czech poetry. when, in 1882, the old University of Prague Notwithstanding all this, the systematic study was divided into two independent institutions, of English language and English literature is of into the Czech and the German Universities but recent date among the Czechoslovaks. of Prague, the existing English Seminary was Critical essays and even monographs in book made a part of the German University and no form have appeared, it is true, from time to corresponding institution was founded on the time ever since the middle of the nineteenth Czech side. century (Durdik's book on Byron, Maly's on So it came about thatTthe best Czech works Shakespeare, 1873, Mourek's "Concise History for the practical study of English,—V.A. Joung's of English Literature", 1890, Janko's "Shakes English-Czech Dictionary and his English Gram peare and His Works", 1909), and in the sixties mar and Dr. F. Krupicka's series of English the first English grammars for Czech-speaking readers —were composed by persons trained readers were published (that by Straka 1862), outside the Czech University. soon to be followed by corresponding English It was as late as the autumn of 1912 that a reading books (that by Maly 1872, and English- chair of the History of English Language and Czech dictionaries (the two volume dictionary Literature and an English Seminary were founded by Jonas 1876 and 1877 respectively). at the Czech University.

203 After two years the normal development of Czechoslovak secondary schools. As yet no the new centre of English studies was checked definite outlines of the reform are apparent. by the war. The students were called away The problem is very difficult, for French, to military service, the yearly endowment English, German and different Slavonic languages was reduced practically to nothing, and contact have all of them —apart from the classical lan with the Anglo-Saxon world cut off entirely. guages—justified claims upon a place in the The proclamation of the Czechoslovak State new curriculum. and the end of the War in 1918 mark the opening So far it is safe to say only that English will of a new era for the English studies in Czecho certainly win one of the first places in the com slovakia. To the resuscitated English Seminary petition of modern languages, and that Czecho of the Czech University of Prague, the English slovak research work in the field of English Seminary at the newly founded Massaryk language and literature, for which some foun University at Brno has been added, and even at dations were laid in the second decade of the the new Comenius University at Bratislava twentieth century (Prof. Chudoba's work on steps have been taken for securing scientific Wordsworth, 191 1, and his two books of essays instruction in English. on modern English literature, 1915 and 1920; The future of English studies in Czechoslo the first two volumes of the author's detailed vakia will very much depend upon the place to "History of English Literature", 1910 and 1915) be assigned to English in the reformed type of has promising prospects before it.

Literary Notes

"The Religion of Wise Men", by George Fre Of William J. Locke's recent novel "The Leng derick Wates (Allen & Unwin), is an attempt thened Shadow", published in London with the to apply to religion the general principle set forth title "Mr. Moordius", Mr. Edgett of the Boston in his previous work entitled "The Magic of Evening Transcript says, "It does not equal "The Common Sense". The eight articles which he Beloved Vagabond", but, he adds, "nothing suggests as rallying points for a universal religion he has written has approached that most delightful include the universal obligation on the able-bodied novel of fantastic adventure". to work, and the simple life.

In a "Pamela in Paris" by Rose Mary Kaplan (Simp- recent article in the Christian Science Monitor entitled "The British Empire and Mr. H. G.Wells", kin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co) describes Mr. Winston Churchill says, "In briefly and breezily forty-five places in Paris 'The Time Machine', one of Mr. Wells' works, the author wants the visitor to see, and some earliest he has endowed us with a of places which are too often neglected in books piece literature which in its charm of style and for the tourist, such as the Musee Balzac, the conception may well take its with Musee d'Ennery, and the Conservatoire des Arts place 'Gulliver's Travels' and 'Ere- whon'. et Metiers.

Mrs. Wharton's "A Son at the Front" (Scribner's) In reviewing Professor Fuller's "Diplomacy at is described by William Lyon Phelps in the Inter- its Zenith" (Harvard University Press) the American national as an enormous improvement Journal oj International Law says : "Professor over "The Glimpses of the Moon". Of her Fuller's volume should be read by all those who earlier books he says, "There can be no doubt desire to understand Bismark's diplomacy and the that "Ethan Frome" and "The Age of Innocence" diplomatic activities which preceded the Great are masterpieces" ; and of these two he would War. And it well deserves a place in every library put the^second first. that deals with modern Europe."

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Round-Table Conferences of the Institute The Peace Conference at Paris following the of Politics at its First Session. 1921. Armistice drew up not only a Peace Treaty with New Haven. Yale University Press. 1923. Germany but also provided lor the establishment of a 459 pages. League of Nations whose purpose was "to promote international co-operation and to achieve international peace and security". Much has is the first of the publications of the Insti This been written both for and against the League tute of Politics, established at Williams College of Nations. Perhaps it would notAbe too much through the generosity of Mr. Bernard M. Baruch. to say, however, that at least a large partjaf this interesting parts of book are to The most ^the material has been written in a spirit of prejudice in the made by Ex-President be found speeches and with the purpose of proving some preconceived Taft, Lowell, and Senator Root at the President thesis, rather than endeavoring to instruct and and closing exercises of the Institute; 'opening construct. But most of us are either weary or useful, however, are the reports of the the most even afraid of this sort of "propaganda" although conferences with their accompanying round-table told that it will inevitably lead us along the paths on the bibliographies, especially the conferences of re-established international relations and per question and on the frontier problems reparations manent peace. What we want is a book which Germany and her neighbors on the west. of analyzes international problems as nearly as pos subjects discussed were the new states Other sible with a real perception of human ideals and the Treaty of Versailles, Latin- of Central Europe, endeavors on the one hand, and human frailties tariff problems, and interna American questions, and "hard facts" on the other. We want a book tional law. which is not afraid to attack delicate problems and offer a constructive program for their solution. In announcing that it was Mr. .Baruch who had made provision for the establishment of the Moreover some of us admit the incompleteness Institute, President Garfield said that it had been of our mere acquaintance with such fundamental — done in the belief that the strength of a nation problems as, what the League of Nations is, was the measure of its contribution to international why it appears to many as necessary in the present problems ; but in his address Senator Root empha world system, how it is^organized, what it has sized the fact that a democratic nation could act accomplished, its position today, the attitude of properly only in accordance with the popular will such nations outside the League as the United and act intelligently only in as far as the people States, Germany and Russia, and how the League are informed about international questions ; open may be utilized and developed as a truly effective' diplomacy should be granted, and government organ for permanent peace among nations. officials "should be not only willing but^insistent Mr. Roth Williams in this book has given to the that the real rulers shall know". public just such a book as we need. He could not have fulfilled more satisfactorily his aim, which is to "enable any reader who has vague ideas The League of Nations To-day, by Roth Williams. about the League, and . is ordinarily interested London. George Allen & Unwin, Ltd. 1923. in politics, to exclaim after finishing it : "Now I is 223 pages. know what the League and what we ought to do about it'.'

The military object of war is "a renewed state The style is clear and convincing. The subject- of peace". The political object of war has varied matter is very well chosen. But perhaps the greatly throughout history, covering a wide range finest feature of the book is the author's supremely of nominal and real objectives. The ultimate fair analysis of states both in and out of the League. — idealistic object of war is "permanent peace", Delicate questions are neither evaded nor approach at I .-ast such was the great war aim of the A lied ed with "diplomatic tactics", but apparently and Aisocia.ed Powers in the War of 1914. The with a very sincere desire to do absolute justice question which ch llenges us, then, is how to to each state and this with the background of an obtain this object in the present state of world unusual grasp of the national psychology and affairs. state of mind.

207 To any one thinking even casually on questions The Cathedral Church of England, by William of international relations and the tremendous Burnet Tuthill. New York. The Macmil- immediate problems to be solved, Mr. Williams' lan Co. 1923. 193 pages. 78 illustrations. book on the "League of Nations To-day" will be of real value. But to those who have thought These chapters on the cathedrals of England, a good deal about these leading problems and the first presented in the form of lectures before New League of Nations the book will be found a quite York audiences, after some observations on the indispensable aid in clarifying and crystallizing general characteristics of the cathedral structure convictions. and the different architectural periods, describe Lawrence O. Egben. briefly the main features of representative cathedral buildings, such as Canterbury, with Amiens and Cologne "the greatest Gothic trio in the world" ,* Durham and Lincoln, incomparable As We See It, By Rene Viviani. English translation for beauty of location and stateliness of exterior ; by and Thomas R. Ybarra. New York Winchester, with its hne nave, the finest in England, London. Harper & Brothers. 1923. 314 the author says, not excepting Canterbury and pages. Lincoln ; and Salisbury and its tower and spire, one of the finest compositions in Europe, even In this book Monsieur Viviani, Prime Minister finer than that of the Cathedral at Rouen. of France in 1914, answers the Ex-Kaiser's Memoirs. He also singles out for special mention the It is most fitting that an answer to that tissue west doorway of Lichfield, the east window of Ely, of omissions, falsifications and deliberate lies than which, he observes, there is nothing more should come from one who, better than any other, beautiful in England, not even Carlisle ; the choir was in a position to know the true facts : one who stall of Exeter, surpassed by those of the Cathedral stood shoulder to shoulder with Monsieur Poin- at Amiens only , and the celebrated cloisters al care, then President, facing the surging tides Gloucester of brutality and barbarism which sought to over whelm civilization. The Spell of Sicily ■The Garden of the Medi The records quoted are almost wholly gathered terranean, by Will S. Monroe. Boston. from the archives Prussia, of Austria and Bavaria . The Page Co. 1922. 405 pages. Illustrations. telegrams and letters from his own ministers and ambassadors, damning proofs which William II Professor Monroe's interest in Sicily is not less has conveniently ignored in his apology. In a keen than his interest in Bulgaria, Bohemia, and flood of eloquence, reason and fact we are swept Scandinavia, and the fact that this is the second back, those through tragic days, harkening to edition of his book on Sicily first published in those vain appeals voiced by Sir Edward Grey, 1909 is evidence that his interest is shared by others. by the Tzar, by France, Italy, Belgium in the Others may not agree with him that Sicily has name of peace, humanity and common-sense : the finest climate in Europe, or that the Sicilians appeals that dashed themselves like rain drops are the most trustworthy element of unskilled against the granite walls of Prussian arrogance. labor in the United States, but they will enjoy his Step by step M. Viviani retraces Germany's enthusiasm over Taormina, which he declares aggressive measures. He appends two chronolo has the most superb position of any place in Sicily, gies : that of the successive German armaments, and its great Greco-Roman theatre, surpassed and that of the plot direct, which was to unleash by the Roman Theatre at Orange only in the the Germanic hordes armed with all their savage care with which it has been preserved ; Syracuse, arsenal to beset a peaceful world. As chief ancient champion of Hellas against Carthage as criminals he cites the Kaiser, Bethmann-H >llweg Athens had been champion of Hellas against and von Jagow. One's blood boils again at the Persia, and its famous fountain of the nymph recital, while one marvels at the resolution and Arethusa ; Girgenti and its ruined temples, the indefatigable tenacity of these statesmen of France most majestic in the old Hellenic world ; and the under such a strain and such a crushing load of similarly .iiipressive Doric tenmle at Seaesta. responsibility.

William must indeed stand very close to his God Under the Bic Top, by Courtney Ryley Cooper. since he has been permitted to emerge from his Boston. Little Brown. & Co. 1923. 238 Memoirs self-anointed, cleansed of the blood pages. of his innumerable victims, pure and resplendent as the ewe-lamb. Of this Mr. Ybarra gives us The advent and evolution of the circus in all an excellent translation. countries would make an interesting study. In George G. Fleurot _ this altogether charming book, Mr. Cooper gives

208 us an authoritative account of the modern American Spain in Silhouette, by Trowbridge Hall. New circus, showing us that each individual enterprise York. The Macmillan Co. 1923. 351 pages. constitutes a formidable undertaking in men, money and endeavor, yearly travelling thousands Written in the form of letters, these reminiscences of miles, at constant grip with every kind of diffi of travel in Spain are full of most interesting pictures culty. of the Basque country, where the pelota court He discusses human beings and the wild crea holds second place only to the Church, of Catalonia tures, which are so human too, with an equally and the floral games of Barcelona, of Tarragona, sympathetic understanding ; the elephants are with its Roman remains unsurpassed by any other our brothers, the apes, our poor relatives, while Roman city in all Spain, of Valencia, the city lions, tigers and leopards are nothing but great of the Cid, of Granada, city of mystery, and of big cats. Cordova, ancient mecca of the West. lessons are driven home ; Two the lovableness Seville was reached on the eve of Palm Sunday, of animals, and the to blessings man wrought and two weeks later Toledo, the Spanish Rome, by hard work, clean thinking and purposeful with more of romantic lore to its credit than any living. other city of Spain, the author says, and one of George G. Fleurot. the finest and largest cathedrals in the world ; then Madrid, and the Escorial, and finally Burgos, AU SEUIL DE LA PROVENCE : Le RHONE CeVENOL, supreme among Spanish Gothic cathedrals and by W. Morton Fullerton. Paris. Nouvelle one of the most perfect in Europe. Librairie Nationale. 1923. 125 pages. In Madrid he found also, of course, the greater part of the work of the greatest painter of Spain, It is extraordinary to find that this book was Velasquez, and the scene of "La Dama Errante", written by an American : extraordinary not only that famous novel by Pio Baroja, who, he says, on account of its faultless language, of the intimate represents more completely than any other, modern knowledge of history it portrays, but especially Spain's ideas and tendencies. In Seville he refers because of its quick appreciation of the minute also to the writings of Palacio Valdes, whose differentiations of character, mentality and dialect, masterpiece "La Hermana San Sulpicio", he which distinguish one overlapping region from declares, should be read by all who desire to another, one town from its neighbor. understand that happytcity. Mr. Fullerton loves to trace the present back to its origins, to follow the course of the successive Library invading waves, the Phoenicians and Greeks up Sketches from a Window, by Basil the river, the Romans and the Barbarians over Anderton. Cambridge. W. Heffer Sons. the mountain defiles, and to observe how each 1922. 182 pages. race naturally elected to settle in the environment which most closely resembled its native heath, IwMr. Anderton's library window opens upon building and planting according to its wont. many fields of view and this collection of essays Hence, probably, of all the Rhone's long and from the pen of the well-known city librarian of — rapid descent from its Alpine birthplace to the sea, Newcastle on Tyne is of great and varied interest, he selects as his hunting ground this borderland appealing as it does by turns to the literary student, of ancient Gaul, so often crossed by the invaders the nature lover, the book collector or the lover from North and South, which lies on the northern of his fellow man. threshold of Provence, mellow land of the olive Each of the eight essays has its special charm and of the mistral. Here he leads us from the for the reader, and while one admires the scholar Rhone's wild gorges up into the rugged heights ship of "The Stoic in His Garden" the paper and high plateaus of the Cevennes, halting on the on Justus Lipsius, or that of the exceedingly way at such towns as Saint-Etienne, Givors, interesting paper on Sir Thomas Browne, one Annonay, Tournon and sundry forgotten places. appreciates the delicate humour of "A Gourmand's As we follow, he now and again offers us sundry Breviary" which is very charming in its quaint morsels in the original "Langue d'Oc" culled conceits. from Mistral, variegated by truncated L.atin "Nature and Human Nature" makes one wish inscriptions which seem almost too flattering that Mr. Anderton would write more in a similar to our erudition. vein ; while "In Northumbrian Sunshine" will Truly this little volume proclaims Mr. Fullerton give special pleasure to those who know and love to be, in Virginian parlance, "A gentleman, a the comparatively unknown "North Countree", — scholar, and a good judge of whisky", if indeed following his lead over hill and valley, across river we may trust his report in regard to a bottle of and moorland, whether on foot or wheel. "A Hermitage, 1870, found at Tournon. Newcastle Seaman 100 Years Ago" presents an George G. Fleurot. admirable picture of a sterling north country

209 man of grea native intelligence, while "The Lure Mortal Coils, by Aldous Huxley. New York. of Translation" opens up an interesting question Geo. H. Doran, 1923. 223 pages. which has doubtless presented itself to many minds. Professor J. Wight Duff's Latin version Mr.iHuxley is such a master of the right word, of "Little Miss Muffet" is a delightful jeu d'aprit. the well-turned phrase, that it is disappointing to find him ever overstressing a situation or lapsing into anything easy or obvious. And this happens with shocking frequency in this volume of short Glory, Machen. New The Secret by Arthur stories. "Permutations among the Nightingales", 1923. 279 York. Alfred Knopf. pages. for example, would be wholly delightful, —and much of it is— if in rounding to a conclusion its . his to this book, Mr. Machen explains In preface treatment were less that of opera-bouffe. Again, he wrote it by combining his dislike of a that in "Nuns at Luncheon", to have Sister Agatha's certain schoolmaster's life with hi ■ knowledge teeth stolen is slapstick of the most flagrant variety, of Celtic The resulting story has as mysteries. unnecessary and palpably out of place ; but the little unity as oil and water poured into the same rest of the story is deftly and charmingly handled ; flask — Machen had not the skill to fuse the Mr. Miss Penny, with her hare's eyes and her fantastic immiscible ingredients. jewelry and her momentary abstractions, is a Ambrose Meyrick into trouble in the gets distinct creation. "The Tillotson Banquet" is first for star-gazing instead of playing chapter perhaps the most consistently well written of any '"rocker", which leads one to expect the familiar of the five stories ; it embodies, in fact, more of of an artistic soul struggling for expression story the elements of the conventional story than any in the of an English Public uncongenial atmosphere of the others, and is pleasantly ironic in its comment School. But not at all : having been thrashed on the gregarious type of mind in society. by his uncle —who is at the same time his house Mr. Huxley, to judge from this one volume, master — he takes a new line of action, knocks takes no one seriously ; the spark of his creative down one bully, nearly blinds another, and then power is kept alive by the frailties of human nature ; to his bedroom where, after kissing his retires but although his engaging laughter occasionally "purple swollen flesh" in a frenzy of masochism, rises to shrillness it shows no trace of acidity. He he decides to conform to public opinion. M. Rice succeeds admirably until, at the age of eighteen, he renounces a brilliant career at the University A Hind in Richmond Park, by W. H. Hudson. as scholar and athlete, to join a band of strolling New York. Dutton & Co. 1923. players, to write a few books and, finally, to die E.P. 296 pages. at the hands of infidels for refusing to spit on an ikon. of the simple incident of The recounting of these adventures, however, ^|Out watching the movement of the ears of a hind in does not form the major part of the book. That Richmond Park, the author has woven a series of is taken up with a series of interpolation : weak charming essays dealing with nature and animal life thrusts at the dead dog of Victorian morality and overshot with human As we turn the the dying dog of the Public School system ; rhap philosophy. pages it seems as if we were wandering down a woodland sodies of Celtic saints ; and the short-lived elope path by the side a ment of Ambrose with his uncle's maid. This of poet-naturalist listening to his musings on the subjects w; took place during one of his holidays, and was pass. In a he brought to an untimely end by his discovery pleasing, informal vein discusses the subject all, of hearing in animal and man, which naturally that he was, after setting himself side by side — with the ''pestilent horde" of surburban sinners, suggests another sense that of smell. The wind which he despised. The boy who had ''disliked whistles through the trees and all manner of delightful thoughts and incidents going up in form, disliked winning a game , follow in its wake. to a now disliked gazing on the secret glory, which Sound leads consideration of music and all too the was, apparently, to live with the woman he loved. soon final pages are reached. A But despite this ineffectual binding together volume which will be read by naturalist and layman of incidents, there are beautiful passages in the with equal pleasure. book—descriptions of London streets and Welsh E. G. P. hills —and Mr. Machen's language, though lacking virility, often achieves a high rapture of utterance, The New Henry Ford, by Allan L. Benson. a masterly interweaving of cadences. If the main New York and London. Funk & Wagnalls. characters fail to convince, there is frequent charm 1923. 360 pages. in the drawing of incidental scenes and the portrayal of chance comers. The author evidently has unusual ability as an D. M. Carman interviewer, and has succeeded in getting from

210 Mr. Ford and from the records of the Ford Mo rather its purport —seems to be that wars are tor Co., material for an interesting book full of nasty, governments often stupid, and that the Ford anecdote and Ford philosophy. unfortunates within the prison walls are no worse than those —to One chapter reproduces from a Detroit Sunday who keep them there all of which one newspaper published in March 1900 the earliest will readily subscribe. description of the first Ford Car ; another describes ^But there is a more important moral to be drawn the financing of the Ford Motor Co. into which rrom the technique with which the »tory is told. Inasmuch as does not make of itself Miss Couzens, a school teacher, put $100 and distortion a good a drew out $353,000, and her brother James, $900 drawing, or eccentric punctuation good in cash andjrew out $29,500,000; a third, the poem, so one need not be a philistine to concede organization of the plant and how production that aesthetic departure is not necessarily progress, or art, was increased from five and two-thirds cars per if progress, not necessarily about which every one these man in 1905 to twenty-eight and a half cars in 192 1 ; seems so concerned days. and still another, Mr. hord's revolutionary ideas on farming. "The day is nearly past", he declares, John Blomshield. "when farmers will be the slaves of their animals". Tne concluding chapter is on "Ford and the Presidency". In it Mr. Ford is quoted as saying, '" The Good Comrade and Fairies, by Paul Scott Tnere is going to be another world war anyway, Mowrer. New York. Dutton. 1923. and the United States should get into it at the beginning and clean them all up." It is perhaps, this sentiment that gives the book its title. Mr. Mowrer is one of the very^few people who can write of elves and fairies in a way that is sure to be satisfactory to them. There is no senti mentality, no straining of fancy, but a perfect The EnormoUj Room, by E. E. Cummings, joy of humour and real imagination. One sudden New York. Boni & Liveright. 271 pages. turn at the end of a poem will give more true philosophy than any high-sounding lines of deep This isjnot a book to take its place beside such intent could do. We find this in "Bewitched" important lite.ary works inspired by the War and in "Puck's Advice to Crows",»which*.ends; as 'Three Soldiers" or Thomas Boyd's "Through "Be quiet else I can not hear the Wheat" ; but it is a volume of amusing incident and adventure sufficiently well-handled and colorful "What song is in the weather." to make entertaining, even "profitable" reading. The "Freedom of the Seas" would delight an shorten, To as they say, the long winter evenings. imaginative child or restore a worn-out diplomat The^author is convinced that where there is to a generous view of international affairs. art, delicacy there is no and even the most liberally In the first part of the book called "The Good advanced parent might hesitate before reading Comrade", there are poems of love and comrade the book to his family. Mr. Cummings is not ship and glowing pictures of outdoor things. to a spade a spade but delights contented call Particularly delightful are the title poem and which in dwelling on the unmentionable mire "Wood-Smoke", which is a simple and perfect clings thereto : a proclivity which in the early rendering of a mood. "To Common-Sense" of chapters of the book is distracting and out key, is characteristic of the author's telling way of like red spots on a canvas. And later through combining philosophy and humor with a vivid monotony this becomes less distracting but less joy in beauty. After calling in Grandam Common- effective. It seems that with a little restraint Sense to comfort a wild heart, the poet ends would in force ; as it stands it is the book gain "Then kiss me, Grandam ; croon away my sorrow : foundry ear after a bit like a boile. where the "Cite me old proverbs till I ache no more : its first extreme reactions becomes dulled. In "For I would ride the young red sun to-morrow!" Mr. Cumming's own words it comes dangerously near being "rather vulgar violent fiction". Mr. Mowrer's technique is so perfect that it passes entirely unnoticed, as all good technique The book is based on the adventures of the should do. author in France during the later years of the War. After a term in the ambulance service he runs The lyrics in particular have a variety of meter amuck of the French Government and finds and charm which makes it delightful not only himself in the prison for suspects at La Ferte to look into the book here and there for some Mace. A large part of the book, perhaps its favorite poems, but to read it straight through. best chapters, is devoted to description of his tellow prisoners. The moral of the story—or M. P. P.

211 Carolina Folk-Plays, edited by Frederick sions from the front. As a matter of fact, such H. Koch. New York. Henry Holt & Com knowledge adds to the intellectual appreciation — pany. 1922. 160 pages. and enjoyment of a play just as knowledge of composition and orchestration adds to the enjoy ment of a symphony. For everyone wishing to keep in touch with book is simple and explicit. Each chapter the literary efforts of young Americans, nothing The is, packed with information, learned through could be more interesting than the Carolina Folk- hard and experimentation, as those Plays. As Mr. Koch explains in his preface, experience who have to do with producing a play will recognize. these are plays written by the students in the of as choice of State University of North Carolina, wholly local A problem production, such play, the direction, etc., is taken up in setting and character. In them is felt ''some lighting, setting, in each chapter. Not a word can afford to be thing of the tang of the Carolina soil. There neglected as the material is synthesized to the is some hing of the isolation of the mountains highest degree possible. and their sheltering coves ; something of the sun and the wind of the farm lands ; of the shadowy A most valuable part of the work is the biblio thickets of Scuffletown Swamp ; something, too, graphy in the back. It is divided into several of the loneliness of the lives of the fisher Folk on parts such as : collection of one-act plays : full- the shifting banks of Nag's Head or Cape Look evening plays : plays for reading and presentation : out." general . The publisher and date of publication is given in most instances, which By far the most amusing play is Dod Gast Ye makes it easy to check up the latest books. The Both. It draws a clear picture of a blustering, plays in these are both modern and classical, crafty old moon shiner who is tricked by his lists but in either case they represent the successes daughter into allowing her to marry the man of their time. It is a treat to find such a store with whom she is in love, and who is slightly house of practical information in one volume. above her station. The other plays— cross sections — of the hard mountain life are near tragedies. Prue'Durant Smith. Peggy shows the narrow rut into which poverty forces these people. When WUche» Ride, in spite Study of its flashes of humor, shows further the limitations A in "Monarchical" Tendencies in the of these "poor whites" due to lack of education United States, from 1776 to 180 1, by Louise and superstition. Burnham Dunbar. University of Illinois Stu dies in the Social sciences, volume 10, number I None of the plays is a masterpiece : none may survive more than a few years ; yet they may fulfill

Of this monograph the author says, '"I have their purpose of laying a foundation for American

prepared a study which presents, so far as I know folk-lore. The United States is not rich in tradition them, all the more important data on which jus in comparison with older countries, yet each section, tifiable generalizations can be based. By its New England, the South, the West, has its legends relative completeness and by its arrangement that are worthy of being preserved. The young

of the facts, this study should afford an account authors of these Carolina Plays have made a begin somewhat clearer and more comprehensive than ning in this direction. They have written with those attempted in preceding treatments". a depth of sympathy and understanding that Perhaps the most interesting chapter is that presages well for further work of the same sort. devoted to a description of the plan of Count

de Broglie, at one time the agent of Louis XV in Prue Durant Smith.

that monarch's effort to put a French prince on the Polish throne, and upon the outbraek

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This book might be called the encyclopedia of in France a generation later. little theatres. A more practical and complete description of the development of the "Little Theatre" movement in America, and the best Tobacco and Mental Efficiency, by M. V.O'Shea. methods of producing in these little theatres, New York. The Macmillan Co. 1923. 258 could not be imagined. Everyone will find this pages. volume interesting. Many people shrink from — learning the technique of the theatre both in The committee to study the tobacco problem acting and setting— for fear of spoiling their illu was organized in 1918, with the object of collecting

212 is and scientific data regarding tobacco headed "The Old as Viewed by the Artist" a and its effects. This book by Professor O'Shea extraordinarily interesting and sums up in few of is the first of its publications. pages some of the secrets of the success the in great masters of the Middle Ages delineating That there is a tobacco problem is made clear in the special features of old age on canvas and in an introductory note which states that the of sculpture. There is a very striking portrait production of cigarettes has increased from three Leonardo da Vinci by himself and illustrated and a half billions in 1905 to forty-six billions by of famous heads of old men Rem in 1918; the cultivation of tobacco leaf required examples brandt and Jordaens. With its many illustrations, the use of 1,647,000 acres of arable land, while its savour of Montaigne, Sir Thomas Browne's the expenditure for tobacco amounts to over "Religio Medici" and Burton's "Anatomy of SI, 600,000,000 a year. Melancholy", its pointed humour, observation

In this book Professor O'Shea has gathered and research, and may wise hints, this book is

together interesting data in regard to the use sure to find a large and appreciative public. of tobacco by prominent persons of the past as well as testimony from living men and women

is, however, the data of distinction. It derived 1001 Afternoons in Chicago, by Ben Hecht. Chi from the psychological laboratory which gives cago. Govici-McGee. 1923. — scientific value to the book, the report of the is use of the make-believe tobacco pipe not without Simultaneously with the introduction of the humor also. specious Jeff Peters to France by Cres & Co.,

And it is the conclusions reached which make Editeurs, the Chicago Daily New issues in book

the book both valuable and interesting. Briefly form the sketches of its columnist. The comparison is a is these are that tobacco detriment to scholarship of Mr. Hecht with 0. Henry inevitable from ; in in both high school and college the latter the manner of treatment as well as the similarity is is, the author believes this due not only to the of subject There however, an extraordinary of by repressant drug effect tobacco, but also to the difference in the results obtained these two distracting social influences associated with its writers.

use. In the case of adults, he concludes, the

O. Henry, through his stories of the foreign- in most that one can say is that all probability born and the timorously bucolic on the East Side, tobacco is not an insuperable barrier to the attain on Sixth Avenue, and in Harlem flats, has set ment of the highest efficiency on the part of some apart these neighbourhoods of Manhattan as persons, be a barrier to the attainment of efficiency distinct from other American cities as they are but it may on the part of other persons. from Peking's Lantern Street and the Rue des Saints Peres. Ben Hecht, on the other hand,

leaves us with glimpses none too clear of a Russian A

Age, a Green Old by Professor Lacassagne. family, a Chinese laundryman, and German

Translated by Herbert Wilson. London. watchmaker who might have lived in St. Louis

John Bale Sons, & Danielsson Ltd. 1923. or San Francisco. Whenever he attempts anything

321 pages. more ambitious than his impression of State Street a on a rainy afternoon he is surcharged with slang the whimsicalities of O. Henry "In green and vigorous old age the three-fold unjustified by

and the unexpected twist of the plot at the end. rule of life consists in intellectual and moral activity

The reason for the achromic aspect of these of the brain, in diet, and exercise". These are

sketches is that the writer has endeavored to wise words in which this entertaining and instruc characters from among the four million tive octogenarian compresses much of the wit draw his without possessing the imagination necessary and wisdom gathered in the course of his long to above the common-place. He lacks and distinguished career as Professor of Medicine lift them southerner, also irrepressible and man of letters. There are chapters on the the pathos of the his

humour ; and whenever his stories seem plausible beginning and duration of old age illustrated transcribed with the deadly accuracy by many striking examples, on the spirit, mind, they are

of a court stenographer. character, and hygiene of old age, which are full in in of the very latest discoveries medical and psy Thus far Mr. Hecht is his

disappointing ' chological science, together with the views of novels as well as these tales. "Gargoyles which Henri Bergson, Froud and Metchnikoff discussed came out last winter was but "Erik Dorn" warmed

at length and critically. To the general reader over, and the best to be said for the author is his with a taste for literature are offered many wise resemblance to Waldo Frank. of sayings men of letters on the different aspects of old age from Cicero onwards, and the chapter Jackson Moore.

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