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James Branch Cabell Plays Hide and Seek with the Censors James Branch Cabell Plays Hide and Seek With the Censors Keeps Vice Soeiety Guessing What Isa Moon Calf? | of Earth Shows Evidence Floyd Dell Defincs the Title of His Much Dis¬ Figures THat the cussed Book Author Must Have Been in a Playful Mood By Floyd Dell 'Prose, the child »*£ the moon wil] »*,. FlOtntM OF EAIVTrr. A ('<im»(ly of Ap- to p*«,r»nees. By Jam<>a T4r»nch C»bell. ceivably objected n3y having at any 00N-CALF"5s an 0,d ways love "thc place where he rate a Ent?- Bhal| rublisbdi by Hoberi M. McHrida & Co. vrry small one if only-" Li"\ /f L'sh word back to never be, the lover whom he "Not at all! \/l dating shtll WITH one eye oa the censors, Nobody objects to thc -*- » -*. Flizabethan times. It is never bc«.'' in now that are a Jamea Branch Cabell has baby itself, you mar¬ applied by one of the His nature is less like that ried woman. The of tha completed his most recent ad¬ point is that thc drunken sailors to Caliban, "The friendly and faithful babies of the Philistines nre dog than like dition to the Jurgen-Domnei brought Tcmpest." It signifies literally a per¬ that of "the cat that walks to them the and that even by itself." c>cle, tales of the legendary Poietesme by stork; son under the influence of -he moon; In Mark Twain's Thc Prince an allusion to the of mis- and tht country. possibility au oddity, a green character, a. "moon- Pauper, the crowd of street TTardened guided persons obtaining a in any urchins by his bittter experience baby struck fellow," and a "calf" to boot. crowns the Prince "Foofoo the with the, ill fated was other way these Philistines consider F:rs> Jurgen, which a raw, awkward youth. Every one King of the Moon-Calw-." by tho Xew York to be ot'fensive and Icwd and lascivi- Huppreesed Soeiety goes through the period of "calf-love"; The moon-calf, with his queer upA for the Prevention of Vice, Mr. Cabell ous and obscene." the "moon-calf*" how droll will always retain Utopian idea3, bemg a citizen of ]\c- has grown over-cautiou.«. At times he "Why, of them! But are some "*" of thc awkwardness and where Cas the word sure of Manuel imprac¬ Utopia 'airly coddles the Vice Soeiety agents. you that, ticable idcalism of that and devoid of Btgnifies) "All their best and most period through¬ ordinary loyalties to es¬ When he comes to a passage which he thought-of out life. I should define a "moon- tablished fears popular writers, my ciear, are unani- institutions, raay become a might aggravatc these guardians calf," briefly, as an awkward in «.f tha morals he side- nious upon the point; and their Sera- young politically dangerous figure times of public neatly man with a touch of intellectual socia! upheaval. Thus Carlylc steps w;th ''but this must not be told." nim have passed any number of laws. uses the and their oil merchants have founded lunacy. word to describe a yourg French Ter- If lt Be The- moon is the rorist in his Can TolC a guild especially to prosecute such traditionally History of the Frenc's mother of all queer fancies. A Revolution. If ever the hans are lifted and lit¬ references. Xo, there is, to bc sure, young man who is more interested in "This moon-calf erature is permitted to run riot again, a dwindling sect which favors puttine. ideas huge of sansculot. than in baseball is a child of the moon possibly Mr. Cabell will emulate Philip up with what babies you may find in iam, staggering about, as young calvett rather than a iibb*. the war and the but all selt- citizen of the ordinary do, is not mockable only, and soft ]jk. correspondent, cabbage patch, veally world. out a volume of Now it Can Be w'nen in daylight According to Baude- another calf; but terrible, too, if you bring respecting people need of off- who fold. It might. make rather interest¬ spring arrange to be visited tlie laire, disfiourses upon The Gifts prick it; and through its hidcous nots- by of Moon one ing reading for those who go in i'or stork." the in of his Pocms in trils blows fire!" that sort of thing. I r "It is certainly a remarkable cus¬ Cabell points out that in the orig- tom, but it sound3 convenicnt if you memorandum to Sultan inal niedicval from which can Abd-uI-Hamid, romances, manage it," said Niafer. "What Turkish Memoirs with many suggestions for reform. .'he tradition of his comes, "both I want is the and of story baby, though, All his efforts were hov- m their prose and metrical form, there. course we must try to get the in fruitless, baby Secrets of Downfall ever, and matters became still worse are occasional allusions to natural the manner of the l'hilistines if of the you with the accession to power of the nrocesses which make thesa stories know that manner, for I am sure 1 Ottoman Revealed Empire Young Turks, who practically nirtde i-nfit to be placed in the hands of have no wish to offeud anybody." BRANCH CABELL, who has learned caution from I \ JAMES u MBMOIRS OF.ISMAII, KftMAX BET. Turkey a German colony and alienated American readers, who. as a body, at- Stork past cxpcrienc.es with the censor i,d)te<-i Is Willing by Sorrtmerville Story. "With a the subject races a test their respectabillty by insisting j Pretmo* by Vv'iiUam Morton Fullerton. by initiating pro¬ So Manuel summoned tlie stork and t'ubliahed by E. P. Dutton tc gram of violent and that their were of uu- Co. injudicious Otto- parents guilty reminded him of the three wishes causes which led to the manization. Forced to ¦mentionable conduct; and such pas- down¬ choose between which had been promised when Manuel Man and fall of the Ottoman Empire are loyalty to Turkey and loyalty te- *age3, of course, necessitate consideT- A His Books 1"1HE saved the stork's life; and Manuel said set fortb in this interest¬ Albania, Ismail Kemal »ble _. clearly Bey returned te editing." that he would take a son for each wisb. ing volume oi memoirs. his native Later he hopes "that the Jurgen epos Ismail Kemal country and put himself at The Btork thought that this could bc Bey wa3 at once an Albanian the head of a movement for may Bomc day be made accessihle to the patriot independ- JThrougli JPrinted Page the World's Great TANFJ whose The Passionate and a Turkish ence American readers." nrranged. ** BURR, Spectator, first pub- statesman. Although he at the time of the First Balkaa "Not this morning. though, as you Minds Talk With Us lished in England, caused much commi nt in London jwas first of all loyal to Albania, the War. Albanian aspirations, however. Varioas liedkations .-uggest, for indebtcd as 1 am to yOu. land of his birth, he served the gov- received slight consideration at the Dom Manuel, 1 am also a crnment A in the way of dedication is very busy at Constantinople over a long hands of tne powers, who assigned the novelty bird. Xo. I have with the corner introduced in of Earth. The any number of or¬ By Harry limerson Fosdick, [gossip loafers'.' And period of years and did what. he could incompetent Gcrmaii prince, William of Figures ders were yet we do that Passionate that in months before Practical just when we read [The to book is divided into five parts and a put \Prafetwor cf Theology in the Spectator bolster up the rapidly failing power Wied, to rule over a mutilated and and cheap and foreword, each of which is respect¬ your-?, I must follow system in my Union Theological Seminary temporary trash of super- and prestige ot" the Sultan. partitioned country. business, for you have no notion what IS a ficial minds, while all the while the fully inscribed to a stanch friend who IT great pity that when all London Professed To Be Shoctfed American During the last half of the nine- Ismail Kemal t'ne claborate and exact ave great books of the ave by Bey spent last to Iend a hand or an accounts fre- of us are reading so'much of the spirit waiting teenth century stood by helping t'or I,,:, <.{). Turkey, hopelessly years of his life in exile, and his coun- c.uently required by t'ne married men as some one has you know," crie(j RosJrij^ Woman's Book backward alike in encouraging smiie when Jurgen piled time, when, put it, "that if political and indus¬ trymen are now reported to be that receiv-s invoices from me." "Life is a blur of you read ,'/(;.s- you cannot read trial making up on the rocks of legal controversy. printed paper," that?" development, -was saved from dis- an aln.ost hopeless struggle for "Come now," says Manuel, 'Mo you there are not more who a re¬ solution So we find these names immortaiissed make it THK FASSIOXATB SPECTATOR. By sex. Her first [over abandons her to only by the mutual fears and autonomy in the midst of Greek. be re member how to Some peopie read to get information Jane Burr. Published In the Cabollian pages: Sinclair Lewis, accommodating, ing ligious duty acquaint themselves with by Thomas a jealousies" of the great Italian I once about their business. many rich woman, and in her European and Jugo-Slav intrigues.
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