,,the ,,little ,,review ,literature ,drama ,music ,art ,,margaret ,c4 ,,anderson ,,editor ,,january-,,february1 #aiaf ,poems3 ,h4 ,d4 ,late ,spring ,night ,a ,deeper ,music ,margaret ,c4 ,anderson ,blue-,prints3 ,harriet ,dean ,debutante ,the ,pillar ,the ,pathos of ,proximity ,alexander ,s4 ,kaun ,solitude ,david ,o',neil ,the ,novelist ,sherwood ,anderson ,asperities3 ,mitchell ,dawson ,threat ,in ,passing ,teresa ,amy ,lowell's ,book ,f4 ,s4 ,flint ,the ,picnic ,marjory ,seiffert ,editorials and ,announcements 8,american ,art0 8,the ,critic0 ,photography ,c4 ,a4 ,z4 ,book ,discussion ,the ,reader ,critic ,published ,monthly #ae cents a copy ,,margaret ,c4 ,,anderson1 ,publisher ,fine ,arts ,building ,,chicago #a4ej a year ,entered as second-class matter at ,postoffice1 ,chicago ,,the ,,little ,,review ,vol4 ,,ii ,,january-,,february1 #aiaf ,no4 #aj ,copyright1 #aiaf1 by ,margaret ,c4 ,anderson ,poems ,h4 ,d4 ,late ,spring ,we can not weather all this gold ,nor stand under the gold from elm-trees ,and the re-coated sallows4 ,we can not hold our heads erect ,under this golden dust4 ,we can not stand ,where enclosures for the fruit ,drop hot--radiant--slight petals ,from each branch4 ,we can not see3 ,the dog-wood breaks--white-- ,the pear-tree has caught-- ,the apple is a red blaze-- ,the peach has already withered its own leaves-- ,the wild plum-tree is alight4 ,night ,the night has cut each from each ,and curled the petals back from the stalk ,and under it in crisp rows3 ,under at an unfaltering pace1 ,under till the rinds break1 ,back till each bent leaf ,is parted from its stalk3 ,under at a grave pace1 ,under till the leaves are bent ,back till they drop upon the earth1 ,back till they are all broken4 ,o night1 ,you take the petals of the roses in your hand1 ,but leave the stark core of the rose ,to perish on the branch4 ,a ,deeper ,music ,,margaret ,c4 ,,anderson ,a piano1 alone on a stage2 shadowed light around and above it2 ivory and ebony moving out of the shadow2 and the silence that hangs there before the musician plays4 ,there is nothing like it in the world1--nothing more wonderful4444 99 99 99 99 99 ,there are 8revolutions0 going on in all the arts4 ,the revolution in poetry is coming in for a lot of discussion1 so that even the layman is conscious of it4 ,his feeling about it is that some effeminate beings called ,imagists are trying to emasculate the noble art of poetry4 ,but the thing is happening right under his nose and he is careful to keep posted1 in order to be able to defend his favorite theory4 ,as for the stage1 he knows that ,gordon ,craig and ,rhinehart have been using screens instead of marble pillars painted against red velvet curtains4 ,in painting he knows all about the cubists and futurists2 he even knows that the donkey's tail story was something of a joke4 ,in sculpture he has heard of an unreasonable reaction from ,rodin1 and he has probably seen ,brzeska's head of ,ezra ,pound4 ,in the ballet he has a rather clear idea of why the old classical form wouldn't serve2 perhaps because the ,russians have demonstrated so clearly what it was they could do with the new form4 ,in opera he thinks very little is happening4 ,he is right4 ,but the slowest revolution of all--and the most interesting--is that which is just beginning in the art of the piano4 ,it is the slowest because it is not the public alone that is bound to the old form4 ,the masters themselves have not visioned toward a need that would make a new form inevitable4 ,the need is--a deeper music4 ,and it is the most interesting because the convention that has bound the piano1--virtuosity1--is a more worthy convention than that which has restricted any of the other arts4 ,there is a universe of the arts in the piano4 ,but it is not a universe now4 ,it is a stunt4 ,the piano has been used for stunts for years and years and years4 ,it will go on being used that way for years4 ,well1 ,i am the last one to deprecate the art of these stunts4 ,i think they are beautiful--some of them4 ,i think they have their place4 ,but they have served it too well4 ,i love them more than ,i love all the opals and rubies and sapphires and emeralds and topaz and amethyst and pearl a jeweller can dip his fingers into and spread out for your dazzled senses4 ,but ,i love poetry more than jewels4 ,and ,i love music more than poetry4 ,in the music of the piano you get the best illustration that music is a thing beginning and ending in itself1 a thing not of story or image but of sound1 a thing that must be understood quite simply in its own terms1--as ,hiram ,kelly ,moderwell puts it1 a thing that must be heard and not seen4 ,and in the revolution that is beginning you get this first pure principle combined with another2 that the music of the piano must reach to the passion of life4 ,this is quite different from saying that music must be a dramatization of human life4 ,it is merely saying that ballet dancing could never have produced an ,isadora ,duncan4 ,i imagine that ,harold ,bauer must have said something of this sort to himself4 ,he has certainly said it on the piano4 ,his attitude toward the piano has this sort of prophecy in it4 ,it is a matter of the beauty of sound4 ,the methods of approach of all the 8masters0 have been the same4 ,they have imposed something upon the piano4 ,but ,bauer has approached the handling of the piano as ,debussy approached composition--or ,schnberg4 ,when ,schnberg wrote that 8the alleged tones believed to be foreign to harmony do not exist2 they are merely tones foreign to our accepted harmonic system01 and that 8tonality is not a hard and fast compulsion directing the course of music but a concept which makes it possible for us to give our ideas the requisite aspect of compactness01 he was saying practically what ,bauer has suggested about the touching of the piano3 that virtuosity is only a means to an end1 that the springs of the art have been drying up1 and that until the musician can hear better he is not worthy of the sounds the piano has to give him4 ,you can't play ,csar ,franck with the same hands you use for ,liszt4 ,you must change your hands into different 8feelers04 ,the piano will give you the quality of almost every instrument4 ,it is as though ,bauer had said3 8,they call this an instrument of percussion4 ,they have laid down its limitation4 ,but ,i doubt very much whether it will stay within that limitation4 ,i suspect it does not stop there but goes on into a realm where sound is of infinite development40 ,that is why you hear an organ when he plays ,csar ,franck2 that is why you realize how the ,imagists have worked when he plays ,debussy2 that is why you get a sense of painting in all his music4 ,bauer puts on the sound like paint4 ,he knows1 as ,romain ,rolland has said1 that every art tends to become a universe in itself2 that music becomes painting and poetry1 that painting becomes music1 etc4 ,and ,bauer is not a genius4 ,he has merely suggested what will happen to the piano1 and paved the way for an openness of mind about it4 ,he has made a good many people gossip of how his scales won't compare with those of the other great ones2 but he has made a good many more suspect that there has been something lacking in the ultimatums of the piano athletes4 ,he has done many simple and dynamic things to bring the piano into its own4 ,but the full achievement of this will go beyond what has been heard yet anywhere2 and the man who does it will be scorned as the greatest fool or madman of his time before it is fully understood4 ,it doesn't matter4 ,the thing will happen--,i hardly know how4 ,i hardly even know words with which to tell what it will be like4 ,it can only be told on the piano4 ,in his ,spiritual ,adventures ,arthur ,symons has a story of a musician who says more true things about the piano than ,i have ever found anywhere else4 ,one of them is this3 8,most modern music is a beggar for pity4 ,the musician tries to show us how he has suffered and how hopeless he is4 ,he sets his toothache and his heartache to music1 putting those sufferings into the music without remembering that sounds have their own agonies which alone they can express in a perfect manner40 ,this is where the 8lions and panthers of the piano0 have failed most3 they have not loved the sounds enough4 ,they have not allowed each sound its full life4 ,this is the real reason why the piano has stopped short of itself4 ,they might almost as well have played bells4 ,you can strike bells which will bring out any number of tunes1 loud or soft1 with every possible variety of phrasing4 ,but your interest will be in the tune rather than in the sound4 ,you can't limit the piano to the tunes that can be played upon it4 ,you don't treat a violin that way1 nor an organ4 ,and of course you can register a piano almost as fully as an organ with the 8stops0 that are in the ends of your fingers4 ,how fascinating it is1 and how wonderful6 ,but most piano recitals are like recitations--or some sort of performance on a school platform4 ,their beauty ends with the beauty of style1 phrasing1 finish1 tone1 taste4 ,it is diction rather than music4 ,it is science4 ,busoni is not a prophet2 he is an orchestra4 ,hofmann loves style more than he does sound4 ,godowsky loves patterns more than sound4 ,gabrilowitsch loves delicate sounds intensely1 but has no feeling for the sounds of great chords4 ,zeisler loves rhythm more than sound4 ,and so on4 ,paderewski loves the piano4 ,he is genius1 pure and simple--though of course there is nothing less pure or simple4 ,he may do what he likes--break sounds into bits1 crack them like nuts4 ,it doesn't matter4 ,he never fails to communicate a mood to the instrument--the mood of his personal equation4 ,and that is art4 8,przybyszewski playing ,chopin0--that would also be art4 ,what have the excellent piano concerts you hear to do with art1 with inspiration8 ,piano playing is certainly something to be surpassed4 ,music is the thing6 ,and that means ecstasy1 madness1 divinity1--the beauty upon which all the ends of the world are come4 ,the design of sound4444 ,each sound that comes out of the piano is something alive4444 99 99 99 99 99 ,and now for the interesting part4 ,when ,i talk of the 8new music0--which will be different from ,debussy and ,schnberg and all the rest of them--,i am not talking of how far beyond the limits of known harmony1 or the anarchy which disregards any harmonic system1 we shall go4 ,undoubtedly1 as far as all that is concerned1 8some day some one will dig down to the roots and turn up music as it is before it is tamed to the scale40 ,this seems to me a settled fact4 ,but ,i am much more interested in the piano itself and the deliverer who is to set it free from the lie which has grown up around it and make it vibrate to a truer color4 ,it is all in the plane of vibration1 ,i believe4 ,it will come about in three ways3 through the mechanical development of the piano1 through a new type of music1 and chiefly through the new type of pianist4 ,you will have your ,mason and ,hamlin--7this is not advertising2 it is merely a conviction7--you will have that great dark-winged-victory standing alone on a stage2 you will care a great deal about the color of the light around and above it--the tones of the walls within which your beautiful sounds are to live2 you will touch that ivory and ebony--oh1 there are no words6 ,you will see those sounds against the color4444 ,you may write a program for your audience--something like this3 ,i believe the right technical approach is simply a different are the most beautiful there are anywhere in the world--more beautiful than the wind in trees or the moan in the sea or the silence that is heard on deserts2 ,i believe that these sounds live only by a certain magic of invocation4 ,there are no rules for them--unless perhaps you want to read ,bergson4 ,i believe the right technical approach is simply a different kind of friendship--or love affair--with each sound4 ,i believe that tone goes way beyond the range between pianissimo and fortissimo1 between legato and staccato1 etc4 ,tone is radiance1 eagerness1 light1 darkness1 devastation1 something that melts1 something that cries and burns1 something that shatters4 ,i do not believe in playing 8programs0--ending with a blaze of ,liszt4 ,i couldn't play the ,campanella to save my life1 but ,i don't see that it matters4 ,i do not believe in 8program0 music--beginning with ,bach 7now that the public has learned to applaud him7 and ending with ,liszt4 ,i couldn't play the ,campenella to save my life1 but ,i don't see that it matters4 ,i do not believe in nature music--babbling brooks and warbling birds4 ,i believe in nature mood1 just as ,i do in the mood of all great phenomena4 ,the music ,i have made will be sometimes merely the curve of a mood--like the curve of line in ,watts's ,orpheus and ,eurydice2 or merely the design of a color or a scent4 ,but always it will keep close to two fundamentals3 that 8hard gemlike flame0 and the rhythm of sex4 ,all this will come under the classification of those things which are so worth knowing that they can never be taught4 ,it will belong to that individual who can say the new word--his own word4 ,it will make the piano something we have scarcely dreamed of4 ,it will make up an art that has nothing to do with the four walls of a room4 ,it could not be set to 8,questions and ,answers0 in ,the ,ladies' ,home ,journal4 ,it will have little to do with accomplishment1 but everything to do with that which is of all things the highest manifestation of life4 ,blue-,prints ,,harriet ,,dean ,debutante ,you are a faded shawl about the shoulders of your mother4 ,a puff of wind catches at your fluttering edge to jerk you away4 ,but she draws you close1 growing cold in the warm young breeze4 ,she holds you with her shiny round pin1 as all young ones are clasped to old by round things grown shiny with age4 ,in your wistful tired eyes ,i see the trembling of her shawl as she breathes4 ,the ,pillar ,when your house grows too close for you1 ,when the ceilings lower themselves1 crushing you1 ,there on the porch ,i shall wait1 ,outside your house4 ,you shall lean against my straightness1 ,and let night surge over you4 ,the ,pathos of ,proximity#a ,,alexander ,s4 ,,kaun #a ,the ,works of ,oscar ,wilde in #ac volumes4 ,ravenna edition4 ,new ,york3 ,g4 ,p4 ,putnam's ,sons4 ,pull down the shades4 ,turn out the lights4 ,so4 ,we do not want loud electricity4 ,we shall have a jewelled light4 ,for ,i am rich to-night4 ,come1 let us recline on ,bagdad cushions and ,teheran rugs 78,only savages sit01 ,mme4 ,zinovyeva1 the ,russian ,lesbian1 told us71 and ,i shall scatter over the fantastic patterns jewels and stones4 ,how softly they illumine the thick dark--these varicolored glowflies1 these streams of wine1 emerald wine1 and amethyst wine1 and wine of topazes 8yellow as the eyes of tigers1 and topazes pink as the eyes of a wood pigeon1 and green topazes that are as the eyes of cats01 and wine of opals 8that burn always with an icelike flame01 and wine of onyxes that are like 8the eyeballs of a dead woman01 and wine streams of sapphires and chrysolites and rubies and turquoises and ambers and pearls4444 ,i am rich to-night1 and we shall bathe our eyes in quivering rainbows1 and our fingers shall wander lightly through dimly-jewelled ripples1 stirring up old visions1 exotic unhuman faces1 enchanting monsters1 dancing rhythmic words1 fantastic moonlit thoughts4 ,what songless tongueless ghost of sin crept through the curtains of the night8 8,in exquisite raiment1 and to the delicate sound of flutes1 the sins of the world are passing in dumb show before us4 ,things that we have dimly dreamed of are suddenly made real4 ,things of which we have never dreamed are gradually revealed40 ,lift up your large black satin eyes which are like cushions where one sinks6 ,fawn at my feet1 fantastic ,sphinx1 and sing me all your memories6 ,a symphony of memories4 ,a life as brilliant and as swift as a meteor4 ,a life of no shadows4 ,sun and flowers4 ,a continuous rainbow4 ,an ,apollonian race over iridescent rose-and-azure-clouds4 ,a sudden plunge over hideous precipice4 ,the song broken4 ,yet the chord vibrates4 ,uneasiness4 ,the moon filters through the stained embrasure4 ,regardez la lune 444 ,on dirait une femme qui sort d'un tombeau4 ,elle ressemble une femme morte4 ,on dirait qu'elle cherche des mortes4 444 ,elle ressemble une petite princesse qui porte un voile jaune1 et des pieds d'argent4 ,elle ressemble une princesse qui a des petites colombes blanches4444 ,on dirait qu'elle danse4 444 ,on dirait une femme hystrique1 une femme hystrique qui va cherchant des amants partout4 ,elle est nue aussi4 ,elle est toute nue4 ,les nuages cherchent la vtir1 mais elle ne veut pas4 ,elle chancelle travers les nuages comme une femme ivre4444 444 ,cachez la lune6 ,cachez les toiles6 ,no1 it is not the moon that causes the uneasiness4 ,it is that ,egyptian scarabus in lapis lazuli that bedims the scattered jewels and enveils me in sadness4 ,an image beckons to me out of the ultramarine glimmer1 an image of a king1 a lord1 possessor of a golden tongue and of a scintillating mind1 yet an image repulsive in its carnal vulgarity1 its dull inexpressive eyes1 its fat jowl1 its unreserved mouth4 ,on a stout1 democratic finger guffaws the scarabus4 99 99 99 99 99 ,lights6 ,turn on the lights4 ,i have been sybariticizing with thirteen beautiful little volumes of ,oscar ,wilde1 recently published by ,g4 ,p4 ,putnam's ,sons4 ,it is a useful1 although often painful1 ordeal--ventilating the store-room of your old gods4 ,there was a time when ,i worshipped ,wilde unqualifiedly4 ,as a freshman ,i wrote a pathetic paper in which ,i demanded the canonization of the author of ,de ,profundis4 ,alas1 ,i have come to discern spots on the sun4 ,as a decorative artist ,wilde has no flaws4 ,the perfect design applied in his multifarious productions makes one compare him to the titans of the ,high ,renaissance3 ,nihil tetigit quod non ornavit4 ,the graceful form justifies even his obvious moral-fairy-tales1 even his unoriginal1 ,keats-esque and ,poe-esque poems4 ,it is for the style that we accept his ,de ,profundis1 that insincerest attempt for sincerity4 ,but ,wilde strove for more than mere external artistic effect4 ,in his critical essays he lifted the critic to the heights of co- and re-creation1 and instructed him to demand from a work of art eternal values4 8,the critic rejects those obvious modes of art that have but one message to deliver and having delivered it become dumb and sterile1 and seeks rather for such modes as suggest reveries and moods and by their imaginative beauty make all interpretations true and no interpretation final40 ,we1 his disciples in aesthetic valuations1 come to our master with his own criterion1 and find him on more than one occasion grievously wanting in the requirements that he had set up for the artist4 ,he either has no message to deliver1 as in his clever plays1 or he delivers his message in such an outspoken way that no field is left for suggestion or imaginative interpretation4 ,he had transgressed ,mallarm's maxim--8,to name is to kill2 to suggest is to create0 not only in ,the ,ballad of ,reading ,gaol1 the work that belongs to the crushed1 semi-penitent ,wilde2 he committed this unpardonable sin in his masterpiece1 ,salom6 ,that wonderful harmonious ghastliness1 woven out of moods and motives1 surcharged with suggestive tragedy and fatalism1 suddenly breaks into a criminal vulgarity through the introduction of a 8real0 dead head1 which drives away illusion and atmosphere1 and strikes your nostrils with the odor of theatrical grease paint4 ,the rehabilitation of ,oscar ,wilde was imposed upon the ,anglo-,saxon world by the continent1 especially by ,germany1 the expropriator of ,english geniuses1 where the production of ,wilde's plays has rivalled in frequency those of ,shakespeare4 ,i know of a ,german pundit who chose as a topic for his doctor's dissertations 8,the ,influence of ,pater on ,oscar ,wilde04 ,but continental depreciation is as fast as ,anglo-,saxon appreciation is slow4 ,neue ,zeiten1 neue ,vgel2 neue ,vgel1 neue ,lieder4 ,european literature in recent decades has had more meteors than stars4 ,wilde's flash is rapidly vanishing4 ,you may call me a ,cassandra1 but ,i venture a prophecy that soon ,wilde will find his peaceful place in ,american colleges alongside with ,austen1 ,eliot1 ,meredith1 etc4 ,salom will always remain one of the world's great symphonies1--a symphony in which the motive of doom rends your soul from the first sound to the last4 ,poems in ,prose will never lose their charm as ivory-carved bits of ideal conversation--the art in which ,wilde was supreme1 the art that is almost unknown in this country where it is substituted by talk4 ,his other works are doomed to be time's victims4 ,not because they are worthless1 but for the reason of their adaptability4 ,one must be a prophet1 a ,nietzsche1 who hurls his seeds over many generations1 in order to endure4 ,wilde was aware of this danger1 and he wished to be misunderstood1 but he lacked the profundity for such a merit4 ,he did not mirror his age2 but he had realized the potentialities of his age1 had popularized them to such a degree that they have become the possession of the crowd4 ,we are not any longer dazzled by the clever witticisms in his ,plays2 they have become almost commonplace4 ,even the graceful1 radiating ,intentions appear to us somewhat obvious4 ,why8--,it is the pathos of proximity6 ,wilde's paradoxes1 mots1 theories1 have proven so appropriate1 adaptable1 and digestible for our age1 that it took only one decade to absorb them into our blood and marrow4 ,cleverism for the sake of cleverism has come to be an epidemic in our days2 cleverists find ,wilde an inexhaustible source for parasitic exploitation4 ,our ,hunekers 7and under this appellative ,i have in mind the legions of our omniscient boulevardiers-critics7 don a ,wildesque robe1 and have little trouble in passing as genuine before the good-natured public4 ,unfortunately the constitution of the ,hunekers is too weak to absorb ,wilde's big truths2 they prefer the digestible chaff4 ,adaptability spells forgetability4 ,crime and punishment4 ,solitude ,,david ,o',,neil ,youth6 ,if there be madness ,in your soul1 ,go to the mountain solitudes ,where you can grow up ,to your madness4 ,the ,novelist ,,sherwood ,,anderson ,the novelist is about to begin the writing of a novel4 ,for a year he will be at the task and what a year he will have6 ,he is going to write the story of ,virginia ,borden1 daughter of ,fan ,borden1 a ,missouri river raftsman4 ,there in his little room he sits1 a small1 hunched-up figure with a pencil in his hand4 ,he has never learned to run a type-writer and so he will write the words slowly and painfully1 one after another on the white paper4 ,what a multitude of words6 ,for hours he will sit perfectly still1 writing madly and throwing the sheets about4 ,that is a happy time4 ,the madness has possession of him4 ,people will come in at the door and sit about1 talking and laughing4 ,sometimes he jumps out of his chair and walks up and down4 ,he lights and relights his pipe4 ,overcome with weariness he goes forth to walk4 ,when he walks he carries a heavy walking stick and goes muttering along4 ,the novelist tries to shake off his madness but he does not succeed4 ,in a store he buys cheap writing tablets and1 sitting on a stone near where some men are building a house1 begins again to write4 ,he talks aloud and occasionally fingers a lock of hair that falls down over his eyes4 ,he lets his pipe go out and relights it nervously4 ,days pass4 ,it is raining and again the novelist works in his room4 ,after a long evening he throws all he has written away4 ,what is the secret of the madness of the writer8 ,he is a small man and has a torn ear4 ,a part of his ear has been carried away by the explosion of a gun4 ,above the ear there is a spot1 as large as a child's hand1 where no hair grows4 ,the novelist is a clerk in a store in ,wabash ,avenue in ,chicago4 ,when he was a quite young man he began to clerk in the store and for a time promised to be successful4 ,he sold goods1 and there was something in his smile that won its way into all hearts4 ,how he liked the people who came into the store and how the people liked him6 ,in the store now the novelist does not promise to be successful4 ,there is a kind of conspiracy in the store4 ,although he tries earnestly he continues to make mistakes and all of his fellows conspire to forgive and conceal his mistakes4 ,sometimes when he has muddled things badly they are impatient and the manager of the store1 a huge1 fat fellow with thin grey hair1 takes him into a room and begins to scold4 ,the two men sit by a window and look down into ,wabash ,avenue4 ,it is snowing and people hurry along with bowed heads4 ,so much do the novelist and the fat grey-haired man like each other that the scolding does not last4 ,they begin to talk and the hours pass4 ,presently it is time to close the store for the night and the two go down a flight of stairs to the street4 ,on the corner stand the novelist and the store-manager1 still talking4 ,presently they go together to dine4 ,the manager of the store looks at his watch and it is eight o'clock4 ,he remembers a dinner engagement with his wife and hurries away4 ,on the street car he blames himself for his carelessness4 8,i should not have tried to reprimand the fellow10 he says1 and laughs4 ,it is night and the novelist works in his room4 ,the night is cold and he opens a window4 ,there is1 in his closet1 a torn woolen jacket given him by a friend1 and he wraps the jacket about him4 ,it has stopped snowing and the stars are in the sky4 ,the talk with the store-manager has inflamed the mind of the novelist4 ,again he writes furiously4 ,what he is now writing will not fit into the life-story of ,virginia ,borden but1 for the moment1 he thinks that it will and he is happy4 ,tomorrow he will throw all away1 but that will not destroy his happiness4 ,who is this ,virginia ,borden of whom the novelist writes and why does he write of her8 ,he does not know that he will get money for his story and he is growing old4 ,what a foolish affair4 ,presently there may be a new manager in the store and the novelist will lose his place4 ,once in a while he thinks of that and then he smiles4 ,the novelist is not to be won from his purpose4 ,virginia ,borden is a woman who lived in ,chicago4 ,the novelist has seen and talked with her4 ,like the store-manager she forgot herself talking to him4 ,she forgot the torn ear and the bald spot where no hair grew and the skin was snow white4 ,to talk with the novelist was like talking aloud to herself4 ,it was delightful4 ,for a year she knew him and then went away to live with a brother in ,colorado where she was thrown from a horse and killed4 ,when she lived in ,chicago many people knew ,virginia ,borden4 ,they saw her going here and there in the streets4 ,once she was married to a man who was leader of an orchestra in a theater but the marriage was not a success4 ,nothing that ,virginia ,borden did in the city was successful4 ,the novelist is to write the life-story of ,virginia ,borden4 ,as he begins the task a great humbleness comes over him4 ,tears come into his eyes4 ,he is afraid and trembles4 ,in the woman who talked and talked with him the novelist has seen many strange1 beautiful1 unexpected little turns of mind4 ,he knows that in ,virginia ,borden there was spirit that1 but for the muddle of life1 might have become a great flame4 ,it is the dream of the novelist that he will make men understand the spirit of the woman they saw in the streets4 ,he wants to tell the store-manager of her and the little wiry man who has a desk next to his own4 ,in the ,wabash ,avenue store there is a woman who sits on a high stool with her back to the novelist4 ,he wants to tell her of ,virginia ,borden1 to make her see the reality of the woman who failed1 to make all see that such a woman once lived and went about among the women of ,chicago4 ,as the novelist writes events grow in his mind4 ,his mind is forever active and he is continually making up stories about himself4 ,as the ,virginia ,borden whom men saw was a caricature of the ,virginia ,borden who lived in the mind of the novelist1 so he knows that he is himself but a shadow of something very real4 ,and so the novelist puts himself into the book4 ,in the book he is a large1 square-shouldered man with tiny eyes4 ,he is one who came to ,chicago from a village in ,poland and was leader of an orchestra in a theatre4 ,as the orchestra leader the novelist married ,virginia ,borden and lived in a house with her4 ,you see the novelist wants to explain himself also4 ,he is a lover and so vividly does he love that he has the courage to love even himself4 ,and so it is the lover that sits writing and the madness of the writer is the madness of the lover4 ,as he writes he is making love4 ,surely all can understand that6 ,because sexual love is the most useful and common type of excitement we are apt to think it necessary to life1 when the truth is that it is excitement itself which is life's essential4--,rebecca ,west4 ,asperities ,,mitchell ,,dawson ,threat ,if you should come into my cave ,bringing molded beads of sunlight ,for offering-- ,i would trample your beads ,and crush you ,with that great bone of darkness ,which ,i have gnawed for years ,and which has left me ,meagre as a gnarled root4 ,in ,passing ,one moment-- ,your friend ,has squeezed great drops from you ,upon his palette2 ,with your color he has wrought-- ,masterpieces1 you say8 ,but the empty tube ,grown flat in his hand1 ,will he hold it or pick up another1 ,your friend-- ,teresa ,do you remember ,antonino-- ,swift-winged1 green in the sun8 ,into the snap-dragon throat of desire ,flew ,antonino4 ,snap6444 ,the skeleton of ,antonino has made ,a good husband1 a good provider4 ,amy ,lowell's ,new ,book ,f4 ,s4 ,,flint ,amy ,lowell has sent me her book1 ,six ,french ,poets1#b who are3 ,emile ,verhaeren1 ,albert ,samain1 ,remy de ,gourmont1 ,henri de ,rgnier1 ,francis ,jammes1 and ,paul ,fort2 and it occurs to me that ,i must be her severest critic--are we not rivals8 ,when1 in the summer of #aiad1 before the war was dreamed of1 she told me over her dinner-table of her intention to write this book and of the names of the poets she had chosen1 ,i objected to ,samain4 ,samain1 ,i said1 was exquisite1 but not important2 and he could only be read a few pages at a time without weariness4 ,stuart ,merrill and ,francis ,viel-,griffin1 ,i went on1 are both more considerable poets2 and both are ,americans2 and since you insist on including ,remy de ,gourmont as one of your poets1 you might increase your number to seven1 in many ways an appropriate number where poets are concerned2 and so on4 ,but she only motioned the waiter to fill my glass with champagne2 and what can a man do against such argument and such a will8 ,and now1 even if ,i wished to damn her book 7,i do not71 she will have already heaped coals of fire upon my head in her preface1 where she says kind things about me because ,i happened to mention the names of one or two books to her1 information she did not really need4 #b ,six ,french ,poets1 by ,amy ,lowell4 ,new ,york3 ,macmillan ,company4 ,miss ,lowell states that she has 8made no attempt at an exhaustive critical analysis of the various works0 of her poets4 8,rather1 ,i have tried to suggest certain things which appear to the trained poet while reading them4 ,the pages and pages of hair-splitting criticism turned out by erudite gentlemen for their own amusement has been no part of my scheme4 ,but ,i think the student1 the poet seeking new inspiration1 the reader endeavoring to understand another poetic idiom1 will find what they need to set them on their way40 ,that is so3 this book contains six causeries in which ,miss ,lowell tells you why she loves these poets1 and what she loves about them1 interrupting her talk every now and then to read some poem to you which illustrates her meaning1 introducing every now and then a fragment of biography to correspond with the stage of the poet's work to which she has brought you1 or stopping every now and then to pick out rare phrases and rare music of words for your especial delight4 ,no one1 ,i suppose1 will have listened to ,miss ,lowell's causerie in so happy a setting as the sitting-room on the third floor of a hotel in ,piccadilly in which she talked to us in the ,august of #aiad4 ,through the long ,french window open in the corner could be seen the length of ,piccadilly1 its great electric globes1 its shining roadway1 and1 on the left1 the tops of the trees of ,green ,park1 dark grey in the moonlight2 the noise of the motorbusses and of the taxis reached us in a muted murmur1 and at the corner of the park opposite1 beneath a street lamp1 stood a newsboy1 whose headlines we strained our eyes from time to time to catch4 ,it was in this tenseness created by the expectation of news that ,miss ,lowell read ,paul ,fort and ,henri de ,rgnier to us 7she reads ,french beautifully72 and it is the emotion of those evenings1 more than anything else1 that her book brings back to me4 ,this is not criticism1 ,i know2 but ,i am a critic displumed4 ,i have quoted ,miss ,lowell's statement of her aims2 let me now give my impression of what she has done4 ,you can take up her book1 and read it from beginning to end without weariness or boredom2 you will be continually interested1 continually delighted1 continually moved4 ,miss ,lowell's method of quoting whole poems and long poems as well as detached and beautiful fragments has filled her book with an emotional content that almost makes me afraid to open it2 the fear of too much beauty4 ,and1 finally1 she has flattered the sense of personal superiority in us all by allowing little slips to remain where we may find them1 and preen ourselves on our cleverness4 ,when you have absorbed all these sensations1 you will have come to ,appendix ,a1 which is #adj pages of the finest translations into ,english that exist of the six poets in question1 or1 it might truly be said1 of the ,french poets of the symbolist generation4 ,in these translations1 ,miss ,lowell has rarely been tempted away from prose1 and you have only to compare her work with the work of other translators to be immediately aware of how much she has gained by her prudence1 her artistry had better be said4 ,that ,miss ,lowell had all the equipment for a task of this kind1 her own two books of poems left no doubt at all4 ,in them you will find the same delight in beautiful word and phrase which has undoubtedly led her to modern ,french poetry as to a friendly country1 and to the achievement in these translations4 ,if she had done nothing more than just publish these1 she would have earned our gratitude2 but she offers them to you as the least of her book 7as an appendix67 after you have been amused1 interested1 instructed and moved4 ,i can conceive of no greater pleasure--my pleasure in the book is of a different kind--than that of the lover of poetry who reads in ,miss ,lowell's book about modern ,french poetry for the first time2 it must be like falling into ,el ,dorado4 ,i should add that the book contains an excellent signed photograph of each poet4 ,the ,picnic ,,marjorie ,,seiffert ,here they come in pairs1 carrying baskets1 ,pale clerks with brilliant neckties and cheap serge suits ,steering girls by the arm1 clerks too1 ,pretty and slim and smart ,even to yellow kid boots1 laced up behind4 ,they take the electric cars far into the country2 ,they descend1 gaily chattering1 at the ,amusement ,park4 ,under the trees they eat the lunch they have carried-- ,potato salad and boiled sausages1 cream puffs1 pretzels1 warm beer4 ,they ride in the roller-coaster1 two in a seat-- ,glorious danger1 warm delicious proximity6 ,the unaccustomed beer floods their veins like heady wine1 ,and smothered youth awakens with shrill screams of joy4 ,the sun sets1 and evening is drowned in electric lights2 ,arm in arm they wander under the trees ,everywhere meeting others wandering arm in arm ,in the same wistful wonder1 seeking they know not what4 ,they have left the park and the crowds1 the stars shine out1 ,a river runs at their feet1 behind them a leafy copse1 ,away on the other shore the fields of grain ,lie sleeping peacefully in the starlight4 ,tonight the world is theirs1 a legacy ,from those who lived familiar friends with river1 field and forest-- ,their forebears-- ,through the night the same earth-magic moves them ,that swayed those ancient ones1 long dead-- ,and these1 too1 lean and drink1 ,drink deeply from the river1 the flowing river of life4 ,slowly they return to the crowds and the brilliant lights1 ,dazzled they look aside1 silently climb on the cars-- ,they cling to the swaying straps1 weary1 inert1 confused4 ,the lurching car makes halt1 they are thrown in each other's arms1-- ,alien and unmoved they sway apart again1-- ,the car moves on through the fields and suburbs back to the town4 ,they leave the car in pairs1 the picnic baskets ,rattling dismally plate and spoon and jar4 ,each clerk takes his girl to her lodgings in awkward silence1 ,indeed their eyes have not met since by the river ,those wondrous moments ,linked them to earth and night1 not to each other4 ,they look askance1--8,good-night0--the front door closed4 ,they do not meet again except by chance4 ,editorials and ,announcements ,wanted3 ,some ,imaginative ,reason 8,nietzsche was an individualist1 a hater of the ,state and of the ,prussians1 a sick man1 a great artist in words to be read with delight and--your tongue in your cheek40 ,this is from ,john ,galsworthy's 8,second ,thoughts on this ,war0 in the ,january ,scribner's4 ,and so it goes on3 he identifies ,nietzsche with the new ,german philosophy 7which the poor man would have hated as he did ,prussianism71 he talks of the ,will to ,power and the ,will to ,love as two forces at opposite poles 7quite in the manner of the ,chestertons71 and he derides ,shaw's clear-headed understanding that there is no real struggle of ideals involved in the war as the statement of a brilliant intellect with 8no flair1 no feelers1 none of that instinctive perception of the essence and atmosphere of things which is a so much surer guide than reason40 ,these things are heart-breaking4 ,if the artists can not understand the prophets of their time why should we expect the masses to do so8 8,homo ,sapiens0 ,is ,obscene6 ,anthony ,comstock's successor1 ,john ,sumner1 has arrested ,alfred ,knopf for publishing ,przybyszewski's ,homo ,sapiens4 ,it was suggested that magistrate ,simms read the book before passing judgment4 ,the assistant district attorney protested that 8no such cruel punishment be imposed on the court02 but ,mr4 ,simms promised to try it4 99 99 99 99 99 ,p4 ,s4 ,since writing the above something has happened which my brain still refuses to believe4 ,i have just been told that ,mr4 ,knopf has pleaded 8guilty0 to this asinine charge1 in order to avoid the expense and the publicity1 and that ,homo ,sapiens will no longer be circulated in this country4 ,if it is true it is the most inexcusably ridiculous thing that has happened for many months4 ,it is incredible6 8,the ,world's ,worst ,failure0 ,read ,rebecca ,west's brilliant articles in ,the ,new ,republic4 ,margaret ,sanger and the ,issue of ,birth ,control ,nothing makes me so positively ill as the average radical4 ,the average conservative is a ghastly figure1 but at least he is true to type4 ,the average radical is a person who professes to believe something that he does not believe4 ,if he did1 he would be in trouble4 ,no one gets into more involuntary trouble than the splendid fools who think they can do quite simply what they believe in1 and who proceed to do it4 ,margaret ,sanger's trial is set for the twenty-fourth of this month4 ,she is under three indictments1 based on twelve articles1 eleven of which are for printing the words--8prevention of conception40 ,it is these words which are regarded as 8lewd1 lascivious1 and obscene40 ,many 8radicals0 have advised ,mrs4 ,sanger that the wisest thing to do is to plead guilty to this 8obscenity0 charge and to throw herself upon the mercy of the court--which would mean that she could get off with a light sentence or a small fine4 ,and what would become of her object1 which has been to remove the term 8prevention of conception0 from this section of the penal code1 where it has been labelled as filthy1 vile1 and obscene8 ,no revolution has ever been started by evasion4 ,no one wants ,margaret ,sanger to be a martyr4 ,the point is that every one must see to it that she is not made a martyr4 ,there is no other way out of these issues4 ,you can't really believe in a thing without knowing that some time you will have to fight for it4 ,margaret ,sanger is taking the stand that her type always takes--just because it is the type that insists on believing hard4 ,we should do all the rest4 ,if you will wire your protest to the ,district ,attorney1 office of ,u4 ,s4 ,marshal1 ,post ,office ,building1 ,new ,york ,city1 it will help4 ,you may write ,margaret ,sanger1 or send contributions to her1 care of ,ethel ,byrne1 #bf ,post ,avenue1 ,new ,york ,city4 ,please1 please do it6 ,the ,russian ,literature ,group ,the introductory lecture1 which took place ,january #ad and was rather well attended1 will be followed by a series of talks on characteristic features in ,russian literature4 ,the pivots of the discussion will be ,pushkin1 ,lermontov1 ,gogol1 ,turgenev1 ,dostoevsky1 ,tolstoy1 and the moderns4 ,mr4 ,kaun presents the point of view of a ,russian1 not that of a foreign student4 ,the next lecture will be ,friday1 ,february #aa1 at #h3cj ,p4 ,m41 in room #fab1 ,fine ,arts ,building4 ,american ,art 7,an ,indefinite ,comment7 ,i report1 without regret1 my inability to present a definite article about the ,annual ,exhibit of ,american ,painters and ,sculptors4 ,not that the exhibit is vague--,american art is a definite thing3 travelling collections1 annual exhibits1 8friends0 and organizations have made it so4 ,but visit after visit left me without words4 ,the feelings ,i did have were alternately those of amusement1 anger1 disgust1 indifference1 mild excitement1 and most of the time3 8,oh well1 what's the use80 ,in this exhibit the only thrills or 8artiste emotions0--such as one demands of art--were very minor notes and immediately they were felt--thump6 7,register amazement and then anger47 ,you come across something good3 its neighbors and surroundings deaden its appeal4 ,thus1 ,massonovich's ,moon-,dark--poet's magic6 ,but alas6 it is the only landscape in the exhibit4 ,next to it is ,oliver ,d4 ,grover's ,italian platitude1 near it a ,redfield--8blast0 his 8school0 of landscapes1 please1 someone6 ,peyraud1 ,stacey1 ,butler--oh1 what emptiness6 ,the ,inness ,room cuts into the exhibit separating two rooms from the rest of the galleries4 ,passing through it one is reminded of the ,inness tradition--how it has been ignored6 ,or at least how his spirit has been ignored4 ,monet1 ,renoir1 ,manet1 and some other modern ,french are hanging elsewhere in the ,institute2 and then there is ,whistler2 and again recall ,inness2 ,massonovich1 on you rests the perpetuation1 not of 8,american ,landscape0 but of that spirit we shall always be searching for in landscapes1 if landscapes we must have4 ,one parting remark about landscapes4 ,hayley ,lever comes in for some praise and much scolding4 ,he has a good color sense1 but strength and virility in composition seem to be lacking4 ,recall what ,jerome ,blum has done and you will understand why this half-way person ought to be jolted4 ,and the portraits4 ,one of ,katherine ,dudley's decorative-,german-poster-8,every ,week0 cover-design-women1 is now the property of the 8,friends0--8,american ,art as it was in the early part of the twentieth century04 ,yes1 indeed1 to represent it clearly to posterity you must include at least one of the numerous society dilettantes4 ,however1 ,gordon ,stevenson1 ,blows1 ,henri1 and ,davey as portrait painters are worth watching4 ,and the rest of the show8 ,most of the exhibitors have been represented for years4 ,their pictures are all so familiar4 ,many of the paintings have appeared year after year4 ,birge ,harrison has a rather atmospheric beach scene2 ,beal1 ,albright1 ,dougherty1 ,hassam1 ,sargent1 ,mary ,cassatt1 ,symons1 ,ballin1 ,weir1 ,schofield4 ,all are familiar and recognised in the ,market ,place4 ,these people are standing still4 ,i imagine they are old3 grey without magnificence4 ,and being haunted by the truth of that lingering statement that there is no such thing as an old artist--why1 dare we say that they are not artists8 ,sculptor8 ,there is none4 ,american ,art8--,to the ,annual ,exhibit1 ,ladies and ,gentlemen1 for a definite demonstration6 8,the ,critic40 ,photography 8,my1 isn't that real6 ,just as it really is6 ,my dear1 haven't you often seen ,grant ,park just like that8--a little changed1 of course40444 ,she who had spoken was considered not a high-brow but just a good normal cultured woman4 ,not being a fanatic about art1 or anything else1 for that matter1 she knew absolutely what she was talking about4 ,the thing she was talking about was a painting of ,grant ,park by ,frank ,c4 ,peyraud looking east from the top of some ,michigan ,boulevard office building4444 ,it was indeed 8real40 ,peyraud's one-man exhibit at the ,art ,institute shows him up for what he is--an imitator without imagination1 a reproducer1 a copyist of nature in her most obvious moods4 ,not an artist or a creator his landscapes are all 8real10 8true-to-life0 and they are all enjoyed4444 ,the ,public knows where the originals are and the association and comparison gives them pleasure and the artist fame4444 99 99 99 99 99 8,oh1 how clever1 and can't you just hear the policemen1 and the buggy-wheels and the bark of the dogs and the grind-organ6 ,oh1 its just wonderful what they can do in music and with an orchestra4 ,i would like to hear that played again60 ,a woman speaks--not the one referred to above but one who holds the same position in her set towards music as her friend towards 8art0 in her circle4444 ,of course1 she can appreciate music1 when it is so natural and real4444 ,carpenter is to be congratulated3 the percussions are given a splendid and unusual chance to show their versatility--it is they1 it seems to me1 and they alone who benefit by this splendid display of music4 8,my dear1 ,i just love ,stevenson and you know1 my dear1 those places in his novels are so real--you can just see them so plainly4 ,of course1 ,i've never been in ,scotland or ,england or ,france or1 my dear1 even in ,new ,york but really ,stevenson is so descriptive1 his stories are so gripping it really is as good as traveling4 ,and ,i have a lovely new book1#c just out with beautiful pictures and awfully dear binding1 showing how the places ,stevenson describes actually exist6 ,you know this book amounts to a liberal education--it's just the same as going abroad4 ,i just adore places and scenes and travel in books--don't you8 ,and ,stevenson10 she ended with a sigh1 8is so romantic40 ,which reminds me of a line of the ,intolerable ,wilde's in a letter from ,reading--8,i see that romantic surroundings are the worst surroundings possible for romantic writers40 444 8,and1 my dear1 it brings ,art so close to everyday life1 does it not8--to have artists portray for us our everyday surroundings and show us how nice they are40 #c ,on the ,trail of ,stevenson by ,clayton ,hamilton4 ,new ,york3 ,doubleday1 ,page and ,company4 ,long1 long ago one ,woman spoke to an ,artist--will her type never become extinct8 8,but1 ,mr4 ,turner0 7,artist2 contemporary of ,john ,ruskin7 8,i never saw such colors in a sky in all my life40 8,my dear madam10 he returned1 8don't you wish you had80 --,c4 ,a4 ,z4 ,book ,discussion ,a ,brilliant ,enemy ,modern ,painting1 by ,willard ,huntington ,wright4 ,new ,york3 ,john ,lane ,company4 ,it is a hard book4 ,none of ,clive ,bell's sunny cynicism1 none of ,kandinsky's colorful musicalness2 surely nothing in common with the watery ecstacies of our official ,chicago modernist1 ,arthur ,jerome ,eddy4 ,while reading the voluminous book ,i experienced an uneasy1 an uncertain feeling in regard to the author3 to hate him1 or just to dislike him8 ,let me confess that when ,i turned over the last page ,i lowered my head in respect for a brilliant enemy4 ,it is a hard book1 brothers-dilettanti4 ,it gives us a merciless thrashing1 we who love without being able to state why and wherefore4 ,we are ordered to go to school1 children1 to study chemistry and color1 to approach a work of art as scientifically equipped as a surgeon venturing to operate on a human body4 ,as a reward we are promised the bliss of unadulterated aesthetic emotion4 ,ah1 that aesthetic emotion6 ,for a time we believed that it was possible to grasp that slippery 8blue bird0 by following ,clive ,bell's maxim on the significance of form4 ,alas1 this theory is obsolete4 ,color itself should become form1 proclaims ,mr4 ,wright1 and he quotes the manifesto of his beloved ,synchromists3 8,in our painting color becomes the generating function4 ,painting being the art of color1 any quality of a picture not expressed by color is not painting60 ,with a sigh of relief we reach the chapter on ,synchromism4 ,all art up to the year #aiab has been nothing but preliminary experimentation4 ,in ,rubens were consummated the aims of the old painters 7beginning with the fifteenth century2 the ,primitives are dismissed as not deserving consideration7--organization and composition4 ,the new cycle opens in the nineteenth century with ,turner1 ,constable1 and ,delacroix1 who experiment in naturalism4 ,manet introduces thematic freedom--not more4 ,the ,impressionists and ,neo-,impressionists close the second1 naturalistic1 cycle1 having enriched art with laborious investigations into the secrets of color in relation to light4 ,all these have been but precursors forging weapons for the third and last 767 cycle--the final purification of painting4 ,synchromism1 of course4 ,of this last cycle ,cezanne was--hear1 ,messieurs and ,mesdames ,questioners--the primitive6 ,still ,cezanne and ,matisse and ,picasso ignored color as a generator of form1 until two ,americans1 ,mac,donald-,wright and ,russell1 rent asunder the ultimate veil from purity and truth1 and the new and final deity emanated from their canvasses1 the unsurpassable ,synchromism4 ,there is so much truth in ,mr4 ,wright's statements1 particularly in his negative statements1 that we may disregard his fanatic credo4 ,who will deny that painting has been 8a bastard art--an agglomeration of literature1 religion1 photography1 and decoration08 ,who will not approve of the efforts of modern painters to eliminate all extraneous considerations and make painting as pure an art as music8 ,but why dogmatize again and anew8 ,why reduce creative art to scientific formulae1 to mathematical calculations1 to ,procrustean standards8 ,why ridicule those who paint comme l'oiseau chante8 ,why belittle ,kandinsky for his too-subjective symphonies8 ,why be so hard1 ,mr4 ,wright1 so finite1 so sententious1 so encyclical8 ,why not have a little sense of humor1 pray8 ,gorky's ,memories ,my ,childhood1 by ,maxim ,gorky4 ,new ,york3 ,the ,century ,company4 ,that ,gorky is deteriorating has become a truism4 ,exaggerated as the importance of his early works has been1 one could not deny their freshness1 elementary adroitness1 soulfulness4 ,but the god-fire was soon exhausted in the none-too-deep spirit of the tramp-poet4 ,he gave us the few good songs he knew about the life of the has-beens1 and then went hoarse4 ,the public1 ,hauptmann's ,huhn1 is not irresponsible for ,gorky's false notes4 ,compel the canary to imitate the nightingale and the poor bird will lose her short1 simple1 pretty twitter1 and rend her little heart with shrill ejaculations4 ,i have in mind ,gorky's later dramas and stories4 ,the book before me makes me think that ,gorky has come to recognize his fallacy in attempting to treat subjects alien to his inherent capacity4 ,at any rate in this case he is free from pretentiousness4 ,his childhood memories are related simply1 realistically1 sans philosophizing1 sans allegorizing4 ,it is left for the reader to deduce the 8moral0 from the sordid panorama that is revealed before him1 that malodorous dunghill swarming with human beings1 whose crawling and writhing is called life4 ,the book should have been much shorter2 the super-abundance of details makes it ,dreiserian or ,bennetian4 ,and here ,i should like to touch upon a sore which reviewers customarily do not discuss1 for fear of mauvais ton4 ,why are the ,english translations so careless and comical8 ,the book in question is full of such glaring errors1 such nonsensical misunderstandings1 such atrocious ignorance1 that it has made me pull my hair in despair of solving the dilemma whether ,i should laugh at the comicalness or whether ,i should rage at the impertinence4 ,i am quite sure that the translator 7his name is not revealed7 knows as much ,russian as ,percy ,pinkerton1 the crucifier of ,artzibashev2 he mutilated ,gorky from a ,german translation1 ,i suspect4 ,the book has another jolly feature--illustrations4 ,they are reproductions from popular ,russian paintings1 with inscriptions that are supposed to illustrate the text4 ,the naive forgery is too crude and unskilful to mislead even the unsuspecting reader4 ,will the publishers ever acquire respect for the printed word8 ,instruction ,the ,greatest of ,literary ,problems1 by ,james ,phinney ,baxter4 ,boston3 ,houghton ,mifflin4 ,have you the sense of humor to guess which is the ,problem8 ,shakespeare or ,bacon6 ,about seven hundred gigantic pages on this vital question1 with illustrations and data4 ,are you curious to know who wins8 ,i shall not tell4 ,why should the reader be spared the reviewer's agony in wading through the bewildering labyrinth of speculations and arguments till he reaches 444 the same point that he started from4 ,bon voyage6 ,instruction ,plus ,tales from ,old ,japanese ,dramas1 by ,asataro ,miyamori4 ,new ,york3 ,g4 ,p4 ,putnam's ,sons4 ,some ,musicians of ,former ,days1 by ,romain ,rolland4 ,new ,york3 ,henry ,holland ,company4 ,these books1 like the preceding one1 are intended to be instructive2 they attain their purpose1 however1 thanks to gracefulness of style and fascination of subject4 ,mr4 ,miyamori has condensed the plots of the most famous joruri--the epical dramas of the ,yeddo period1 which are to this day chanted in ,japanese theatres4 ,it is an exotic atmosphere of oriental fairyland1 tapestries of childlike love and naive passion1 of smiling bloody tragedies and blissful harakiris4 ,when lovers are prevented from being married they do not employ the cumbersome process of elopment1 but transport themselves into the other world by committing shinju or double suicide4 ,the author tells us that ,metizahormach shinju dramas have had such powerful influence on the audiences that there have been numerous instances of lovers performing that delicious suicide after leaving the theatre4 ,i fear that for the occidental reader the dramas will not prove as convincing--alas4 ,after ,musicians of ,to-,day the last book of ,rolland has little appeal4 ,journalistic notes1 interesting information1 brilliant suggestions--and we look in vain for the profound spirit of the old ,romain4 ,hospitable ,mr4 ,braithwaite ,anthology of ,magazine ,verse for #aiae1 by ,william ,stanley ,braithwaite4 ,new ,york3 ,gomme and ,marshall4 ,mr4 ,braithwaite has chosen the guests for his house party with kindly catholicity4 ,amy ,lowell1 ,john ,gould ,fletcher1 and ,h4 ,d4 sit uncomfortably in his ,new ,england parlor eyeing one another furtively4 ,clement ,wood clowns in a corner4 ,vachel ,lindsay before the mantel-piece declaims to ,james ,oppenheim and ,louis ,untermeyer1 who listen with an air of importance4 ,edgar ,lee ,masters sits on the corpus juris and meditates upon the beauties of silence4 ,sara ,teasedale dances in the hallway4 ,harriet ,monroe reclines on a porch chair1 listening to the rain4 ,a crowd in the library recreate themselves by reading from a set of ,british ,poets4 ,percy ,mac,kaye gloomily reads the war news to a group in the dining-room1 while little ,arvia1 his daughter1 lisps happily to herself4 ,and alone in the kitchen is ,robert ,frost roasting chestnuts4 ,who will say that ,mr4 ,braithwaite could have better performed the duties of host8 ,did he omit any of the 8older established names08 ,and did he not make a special ,cook's tour to far off islands 7not shown in the atlas of the ,boston ,transcript office7 for the purpose of bringing home with him certain 8new discoveries08 ,mr4 ,braithwaite pats his guests admiringly upon the back and regrets that there are other excellent poets for whom he has no accommodations4 ,ezra ,pound1 ,richard ,aldington1 ,t4 ,s4 ,eliot1 ,d4 ,h4 ,lawrence1 ,maxwell ,bodenheim1 perhaps he will invite you next time4 ,is it not a pleasant anticipation8 ,empty ,souls ,the ,later ,life1 by ,louis ,couperus4 ,new ,york3 ,dodd1 ,mead and ,company4 ,this is the second part of the tetralogy of 8,small ,souls0 which began to appear in ,english last year4 ,the slowly-developing epic is pregnant with promises1 but1 oh how slowly the skein unrolls4 ,we are still in the midst of ,dutch bourgeoisie1 dull1 stony-faced1 petty1 filthy2 again the incessant rain1 ever-cloudy skies1 bicycle rides1 large dinner-parties at ,mama's4 ,small souls4 ,last year ,i asked the question whether in depicting ,dutch life ,couperus could not find a single big soul1 one interesting individual4 ,this second book gives us pale glimmers of potentialities1 very pale indeed4 ,the big man is big only relatively2 he has been in ,america1 worked in factories1 and is now 444 lecturing on peace4 ,the book introduces a feature that may interest the sexologist3 frequent passionate love among near kinsmen4 ,two sisters are in love with their brothers4 ,a romance between uncle and niece4 ,the heroes and heroines are awakened to love for the most part at the dangerous age of forty4 ,i recall that ,przybyszewski presents in two of his works love between brother and sister4 ,shall we say that ideal sex-relationship requires the closest kinship of body and spirit8 ,in the ,pole's lovers the force driving them together is the harmonious coincidence of two morbidly developed intellects with a common craving for beauty and fullness4 ,in ,couperus we face mutual yearning of small1 pale1 empty souls4 ,but ,i am not interested in sex-problems1 not yet4 ,k4 ,two ,points of ,view ,violette of ,pere ,lachaise1 by ,anna ,strunsky ,walling4 ,new ,york3 ,frederic ,a4 ,stokes4 ,a gigantic background--the eternal graves and trees and monuments of the old ,paris cemetery4 ,the rest is fudge4 ,a mouse born out of the bowels of a mountain4 ,nauseating feminine sentimentalism4 ,boring talk1 talk1 talk4 ,k4 ,the reviewer above is absolutely mistaken about ,mrs4 ,walling's book1 ,i believe4 ,it is the story of one of those human beings--rare people--who live inner lives of extraordinary intensity4 ,it is radiantly absorbing1 to me4 ,m4 ,c4 ,a4 ,the ,reader ,critic ,the ,editor3 ,we have had cancellations1 congratulations1 and a lot of indignant letters about ,ben ,hecht's 8,dregs40 ,i print two of them below4 ,as it happens1 these stories are among the best things ,,the ,,little ,,review has printed4 ,with the exception of some of the poetry and two stories of ,sherwood ,anderson's1 they may be listed as the only 8literature0 we have published4 ,some one has compared them to ,gorky4 ,but this is not a very accurate judgment4 ,as a reviewer pointed out in the ,november issue1 ,gorky could feel his stories1 could imagine them deeply1 but he could never quite tell them4 ,the supreme virtue of ,ben ,hecht's 8,dregs0 is that he could tell them4 ,that is the art4 ,of course ,i have nothing to say to those people who deplore ,mr4 ,hecht's subject matter and urge me to use some moral judgment in selecting things for ,,the ,,little ,,review4 ,there is no such thing as moral judgment in literature4 ,there should be no such thing in life1 but unfortunately-- ,a ,sorrowful ,friend3 ,,the ,,little ,,review3 ,literature1 ,drama1 ,music1 ,art4 ,which of these four shrines did you intend to desecrate in offering ,ben ,hecht's 8,dregs08 ,or have you added an 8unwritten0 class to your list1 comprehensive enough to include such bold portrayals of viciousness and filth1 of licentiousness and lust1 as these three degenerate--manifestations6 ,,little ,,review--how could you do it8 ,you who have hitherto held so bravely to the tenets of beauty and truth in thought and expression1 held to them courageously through storms of adverse criticism1 consent to print descriptions of the bestial abnormalities of the scum of mankind6 ,if you1 who profess to look to a higher1 better realization of life1 consent to crawl in the gutter with the vermin1 what can we expect of the lesser publications8 ,you have polluted an edition of your magazine2 it is true that flames will destroy the manuscript1 but what of the hideous memory that remains8 ,take heed--,,little ,,review2 remember that cleanliness is akin to godliness and--look to your soul6 ,florence ,kiper ,frank1 ,chicago3 ,may ,i call your attention to the fact that ,mr4 ,edward ,j4 ,o',brien1 in his annual review of the year's fiction1 not only lists all the stories printed in ,,the ,,little ,,review during #aiae among those possessing 8distinction10 but double-asterisks 7verb7 the three sketches of ,ben ,hecht's published under the title 8,dregs40 ,this in the chaste and genealogical ,boston ,evening ,transcript6 ,and1 following to the best of my ability ,mr4 ,o',brien's rather vague reference to and nebulous listings of the stories to be published in his anthology1 ,the ,best ,stories of #aiae and ,year ,book of ,american ,fiction1 ,i can but come to the startled conclusion that ,ben ,hecht's three stories are all to be reprinted in the estimable collection4 ,good for ,ben ,hecht1 ,,the ,,little ,,review1 and ,mr4 ,o',brien's catholicity of judgment6 ,some of us there are who like to have our opinions backed and bolstered by authority4 ,and what more august authority than the printed word of ,boston4 ,some of us--but of course not your insurgents4 ,perhaps ,mr4 ,hecht will resent congratulations4 ,i tender them1 nevertheless--with apologies4 ,good stuff1 ,ben ,hecht6 ,do us some--more of them4 ,sada ,cowan1 ,new ,york3 ,i'm truly grateful to your reviewer who found my play1 ,the ,state ,forbids1 8negative as literature40 ,if he had found it bad architecture or mediocre sculpture ,i should have been less pleased4 ,play making1 to my mind1 is not a form of literature 7even though its medium chances to be words7 but it is an art of spacing 444 focusing 444 building4 ,structure upon structure6 ,foundation4 ,ornament4 ,design4 ,an art as distinct from other forms of word utility as color medium is from plastic art4 ,drama is related to literature only in so far as all arts are inter-related4 ,no more than this4 ,by drama ,i mean1 of course1 plays intended 7at least in the writer's mind7 for production4 ,these alone are plays4 ,for one reason or another they may never reach the boards1 but they must have lived in the writer's fantasy as things produced4 ,desk drawer dramas are not plays4 ,i believe that the hope of the modern drama lies in the artist who can learn to look upon himself as a builder 444 a maker and not a writer of plays4 ,and so again ,i thank your critic whose charity has made me feel that ,i am on the road which leads to 8,somewhere40 ,even though at the end of my journey ,i may not yet have reached the first mile stone4 ,virginia ,york1 ,washington1 ,d4 ,c43 ,it is published in windy ,chicago1 ,,the ,,little ,,review4 ,claimed by management1 editors and its readers to be the very1 very last1 last word in prose and poetry2 it is sold at fifteen cents a copy4 ,normal-minded1 healthy folk will find it cheap at that price1 because normal-minded1 healthy folk will find in it fifteen laughs for fifteen cents1 despite the fact that it is entirely a serious publication4 ,years ago an editor sent me to the government hospital for the insane just outside ,washington1 to interview a certain man4 ,as ,i passed into the building an elderly gentleman of profoundly respectful manner presented me with a neatly-bound pamphlet which he said he had written1 edited and illustrated entirely by himself4 ,examining it later1 the cover-page proved to be a mass of meaningless1 whirling lines labeled in carefully printed letters1 8,the ,croucher ,at ,the ,door40 ,the reading matter was wholly unintelligible4 ,a poet-friend has given me the ,october number of ,,the ,,little ,,review4 ,the vers libre poetry in the small magazine might easily be called 8,the ,croucher ,at ,the ,door0 for all the sense to be made of it4 ,in fear and trembling that my own unworthy brain might finally have addled1 relatives and friends were invited to peruse the contents of the volume4 ,i thank heaven they could make nothing of it4 ,one contribution entitled ,cafe ,sketches1 by ,arthur ,davison ,ficke1 is herewith reprinted for the benefit of readers of this page who are denied access1 and accompanying the laugh1 to ,,the ,,little ,,review4 ,mr4 ,ficke1 after telling in the first verse that he is in a cafe1 surrounded by a 8cortege of seven waiters10 mourning for a 8boundlessly curious lady10 recites in mournful meanderings3 ,presently persons will come out ,and shake legs4 ,i do not want legs shaken4 ,i want immortal souls shaken unreasonably4 ,i want to see dawn spilled across the blackness ,like a scrambled egg on the skillet2 ,i want miracles1 wonders4 ,tidings out of deeps ,i do not know 444 ,but ,i have a horrible suspicion ,that neither you ,nor your esteemed consort ,nor ,i myself ,can ever provide these simple things ,for which ,i am so patiently waiting4 ,base people6 ,how ,i dislike you6 ,maybe you think this is funny1 but certainly it is not intended to be4 ,seriousness1 thick1 black1 dense seriousness is the keynote of ,,the ,,little ,,review4 ,this is vers libre with a vengeance4 8,persons will come out and shake legs4 ,i do not want legs shaken40 ,here we have the spirit of the dance6 ,it is quite evident ,mr4 ,ficke does not wish joy to be unconfined4 ,there have been many descriptions of dawn1 probably none so unique as 8the dawn spilled across the blackness like a scrambled egg on the skillet40 ,the second verse is short and to the point1 but it is much to be thankful for both in point of length and the statement that we are abhorred4 ,in order to restore our thoughts to something sane1 to take away from us the taste of such gibberish1 consider for a moment the following eight lines by ,harriet ,howe1 recently published in ,,the ,,literary ,,digest4 ,comparison between the two authors is utterly impossible1 totally unnecessary3 ,,sunset ,,after ,,rain ,the cradle of the valley ,is filled with floating mist1 ,the summits of the mountains ,are veiled in amethyst4 ,the trees spread grateful branches ,above a smiling sod1 ,for thirsting slaked1 for hunger fed1 ,all things are praising ,god4 ,huntly ,carter1 ,london3 ,the letter by ,c4 ,smith of ,chicago1 in the ,october issue of ,,the ,,little ,,review1 is so phenomenally stupid and so intellectually dishonest that it is almost beneath notice4 ,if ,i consent to notice it1 ,i do so in order to warn ,smithsonian understudies that they will be severely dealt with if they attempt to repeat ,smith's brazen offence of writing to a significant journal and coolly suggesting that a single and relatively unimportant wrong attribution is to be regarded as a fair and honest sample of the whole subject matter of an article occupying several pages and mainly devoted to a metaphysical explanation of the origin and nature of poetry4 ,furthermore1 suggesting that ,i am applying to a poet 7,browning7 a rigid test of poetry1 seeking to prove his words poetically good or bad by my poetical experience1 when as a matter of fact ,i am offering certain words1 some of which are wrongly attributed to ,browning1 as indisputable evidence that in venting the emotions versifiers find descriptive figures efficacious4 ,no doubt some of the words flaunted by ,smith are wrongly attributed to ,browning4 ,they are so wrongly attributed that anyone can see they are wrongly attributed4 ,and any 8sane1 intelligent and decently responsible man0 7to use ,smith's yellow press tautology7 would have given me an opportunity of saying they are wrongly attributed before venturing to put on silly airs of hypercriticism4 ,then he would have learnt that the first and third line of the quotation belong oddly enough1 to another piece of poetry1 and have got mixed up with ,browning's stuff in some unaccountable way4 ,i have not the least idea how the mix took place4 ,all ,i know is that my article was finished off in great haste to catch the mail4 ,it was sent in handscript and not typescript4 ,and there was no time to send me a proof2 otherwise the quotation would certainly have been corrected1 and the many errors which now appear in my article would have disappeared4 ,i feel ,i am justified in saying it was not my intention to send the words which have crept into print by the discovery that ,i have actually written down ,browning's very words4 ,here is ,browning3 ,and the sun looked over the mountain's rim3 ,and straight was a path of gold for him1 ,and the need of a world of men for me4 ,the first line of the verse is missing4 ,the three lines however serve the purpose of my comparison4 ,i had also set down these lines by ,browning3 ,one lyric woman in her crocus vest1 ,woven of sea-wools4 ,i intended to include this with my quotations4 ,for here in my view is a figure as original and precisely felicitous as anything the ,imagists have given us4 ,that this dragging in of some wrongly attributed words--so obviously wrong as to deceive no one--for the sole purpose of discrediting an important article is dishonest1 is clear from the fact that ,smith does not drag in any other quotation from the many given1 nor produce any other evidence whatsoever in support of his contention that my article is inept and careless throughout4 ,in fact he has nothing more damaging to offer than his own fatuous statement that he happens 8to consider my article an ill-digested congeries of vague views02 which1 when one comes to examine it is found to contain a baseless assertion and a clear admission that my article is above and beyond ,smith's head4 ,as to the silliness of ,smith's letter1 this may be judged from the following3 ,smith begins with the generalization that magazines die 8whose pages are as a rule careless1 inconsidered and inept0 7note the repetition and consequent lack of thoroughness74 ,the publications of the capitalist press answer this description4 ,the news sheets1 for instance1 are rotten with carelessness1 inconsideredness and ineptness4 ,they would be rottener if they could4 ,yet they do not die4 ,on the contrary they sell by the million4 ,if so1 then ,,the ,,little ,,review should sell by the million4 ,but ,smith says it will die4 ,and ,smith is a careful1 serviceable1 and accurate man4 ,by way of comparison ,smith relieves himself of this matchless composition4 8,your magazine will die1--as a steam engine would grow useless in which no direction towards any cylinder was given to the indubitable forces generated in the boiler40 ,what is the precise meaning of this bombastic twaddle8 ,in homely words1 it means that a steam engine is 7not 8would grow07 useless when the steam power developed in its boiler is not utilised in any cylinder4 ,anyone who examines this analogy will agree with me that ,smith is a careful1 serviceable1 and accurate man4 ,from the general ,smith comes to the particular and quotes what he is pleased to call an example of my 8ineptitude and carelessness0 as an example of the general 8ineptitude and carelessness0 of ,,the ,,little ,,review4 ,without knowing anything as to the circumstances under which the wrongly attributed words found their way into print1 without stopping to inquire to what extent ,i contributed to the mistake1 and upon no other evidence whatsoever than the said wrongly attributed words1 he proceeds to saddle me with the astounding intention 8to obliterate all sense of accuracy1 all love of clear and rational communication1 all fidelity to honest statement1 and all interest in truth0 7which makes four ways of uttering the same inverifiable statement74 ,finally ,smith challenges the editor of ,,the ,,little ,,review to print his ghastly ineptitude4 ,she has taken the short way and done so4 ,it serves ,smith right4 ,m4 ,silverman1 ,chicago3 ,your last issue is a failure--with two exceptions1 ,miss ,goldman's article on 8,preparedness0 and ,mr4 ,hecht's letter4 ,both of them are human1 understandable1 and sincere4 ,they shout--but do not roar4 ,all the others are ostentatious1 plebeian1 and lack artistic restraint4 ,they are not beautiful4 ,they holler and produce a sense of heaviness and overexertion4 ,sympathy and politeness are apparently the cardinal virtues of the highly esteemed editor4 ,hence this 8democratic0 hash4 ,to be more specific3 ,your editorial1 8,toward ,revolution10 is the acme of nonsense4 ,i tried to take you seriously but ,i couldn't4 ,it is pamphletory1 and should have no place in ,,the ,,little ,,review4 8,the ,ecstasy of ,pain0 is a stage hurricane1 and1 to paraphrase ,mr4 ,goldbeck1 it is like ,chicago3 vast1 but not impressive4 ,it lacks artistic touch and symmetrical wholeness4 ,the fourth paragraph is excellent4 ,the rest was unnecessary4 ,the fragmentary mind of ,mr4 ,kaun is phosphorescent1 produces tiny sparks which are soon lost in the darkness4 ,higher mathematics is the best remedy for ,mr4 ,kaun's mind4 8,the ,spring ,recital0 is a bore4 ,the author of ,the 8,genius0 seems to have a mania for torturing the innocent public4 ,i read 8,the ,spring ,recital0 twice1 yes twice2 and when ,i got through with it ,i felt extremely uncomfortable4 ,i don't understand it and it doesn't mean anything to me4 ,i challenge anyone to explain to me3 ,what does this piece of 8dramatic0 8quatch0 mean8 ,all the other articles--well1 they are harmless4 ,woods ,dargan1 ,darlington1 ,s4 ,c43 ,i enclose a check for #a4ej1 and ask that you enter my name for one year's subscription--that is1 if you will let one of the rabble creep in4 ,frankly1 ,i know no more about art 7with a capital ,a or otherwise7 than a rabbit4 ,i don't even know what an 8,imagist0 is6 ,and for the life of me ,i cannot understand why the temperamental1 fussy gentleman named ,alexander ,s4 ,kaun should not use a singular verb with a singular noun1 just like ordinary people4 ,but when he says1 as he does in the first line of the fourth paragraph of his article1 8the dearer a person or a thing are to me1 etc410 ,i know there must be intellectual purpose in it1 some esoteric effect that gets to the cultured few but passes over my head2 so ,i bow before the unknown beauty of it1 thinking1 8,odd1 but no doubt it's all right40 ,also1 to my untutored mind1 the frequent use of profanity in an everyday1 conversational way in two or three of the articles is amusing1 and makes me wonder4 ,it reminds me of the days when ,i first took up the art1 and used to feel a shudder of delight when ,i ripped out a good1 mouth-filling1 8,damn it all to hell60 ,perhaps it has lost its charm for me as a literary ornament because ,i swear so much myself1 just as a matter of habit without deriving the oldtime pleasure from it4 ,other places where these boys put it all over me are in music and ,russians4 ,it is one of my secret sorrows that ,i know ,i know nothing about music4 ,i like it1 but it never occurs to me to fade away and fill an early grave if ,i hear somebody's nocturne murdered--that is1 if ,i know it is being murdered1 which is highly unlikely4 ,and as to the ,russians1 old ,dostoevsky is my limit so far1 but ,i'm game1 and am going in for all the others1--the more gloomy and morbid the better4 ,then1 there's this ,mr4 ,theodore ,dreiser4 ,as we say in this neck of the woods1 in our uncouth manner1 8,he must be a bear-cat40 7,by the way1 ,i'd give a lot to know what 8demiurge0 means in the sense in which it is applied to him4 ,mr4 ,masters used it in ,the ,new ,york ,times some weeks ago1 and now ,i find it again in ,mr4 ,powys' appreciation4 ,i don't know what they mean47 ,well1 ,i've had his book1 ,the 8,genius10 for sometime1 and mean to read it all as soon as ,i can get round to it4 ,perhaps ,i'll know what 8demiurge0 means then--but ,i doubt it4 ,for all that ,i have said ,i would not have you think that ,i am wholly lacking in soul4 ,i have some things in common with these fellows1 for ,i have no religion or morals1 and ,i enjoy getting drunk1 riotously1 gloriously drunk1 once or twice a year4 ,and now1 after telling you at more length than any decent person should what has puzzled me in your ,review1 permit me to say what ,i like4 ,the first part of your own contribution1 8,life ,itself10 strikes me as the real thing4 ,i understand all that1 being a common person4 ,for the last part1 as ,i've said1 ,i know nothing of art1 and life doesn't mean those things to me1 naturally4 ,but ,i like it4 ,i can1 after a fashion1 see how it might mean them4 ,the review of ,dreiser by ,mr4 ,powys that ,i have mentioned already is good writing and good sense4 ,how true it is1 ,i am not yet in a position to guess4 ,then1 ,mr4 ,edgar ,masters always writes vividly1 deeply4 ,i am glad to add 8,so ,we ,grew ,together0 to what ,i know of his stuff4 ,it is almost as good a portrait and short story as some of the best of the ,anthology4 ,that fellow ,ben ,hecht can write4 ,personally1 ,i have a sort of leaning toward the dregs1 but1 as a general thing1 ,i don't know that there's much use in writing about them just so4 ,but he's certainly good4 ,he can write4 ,i never heard of him before1 but ,i shall look out for him in future4 ,for the sake of what ,i find good ,i'm willing to put up with what ,i fail to grasp1 and so ,i look forward to much pleasure and instruction from ,,the ,,little ,,review4 ,luck to it4 ,as long as you1 ,miss ,lowell1 ,mr4 ,masters1 and ,mr4 ,hecht contribute1 so long will it be cheap at any price4 ,and1 who knows8 ,i may yet learn from my friend ,mr4 ,kaun the hidden beauties of a singular subject with a plural verb4 ,the ,january-,february ,issue ,on account of having no funds during ,january we have been forced to combine the two issues4 ,subscriptions will be extended accordingly4 ,,fine ,,arts ,,theatre ,for ,,two ,,weeks1 ,beginning ,january #ag1 #aiaf ,,the ,,chicago ,,players with ,,mme4 ,,borgny ,,hammer ,evenings 7,except ,wednesdays and ,thursdays7 and ,saturday ,matinees 8,,agnete0 by ,,amalie ,,skram 7,first ,time in ,english7 ,wednesday and ,thursday ,evenings and ,special ,matinees ,,january #bj1 #ba1 #bf and #bg 8,,therese ,,raquin0 by ,,emile ,,zola ,,fine ,,arts ,,theatre ,,blackstone ,,hotel ,french ,room ,eight talks on ,literature1 ,art and the ,drama on successive ,saturday afternoons at half-past three1 during the entire months of ,january and ,february1 beginning ,january the eighth4 ,lecturer ,,jesse ,,quitman ,saturday1 ,january #bith1 #c3cj--,subject to be announced4 ,saturday1 ,february #eth1 #c3cj--,subject to be announced4 ,saturday1 ,february #abth1 #c3cj--,subject to be announced4 ,saturday1 ,february #aith1 #c3cj--,subject to be announced4 ,saturday1 ,february #bfth1 #c3cj--,subject to be announced4 ,an ,invitation ,cordially ,extended ,no ,door ,fee ,free ,coal to ,those ,who ,can't ,afford to ,buy ,it ,nobody is going to be cold this winter if the ,consumers ,company can help it4 ,we even want those who can't afford to pay for coal now1 to use ,consumers coal1 because at some time in the future their circumstances may change2 they may be able to pay for coal then and if they once use ,consumers coal they will never use any other4 ,in any event we want them to keep warm4 ,you can call it either charity or advertising1 it makes no difference to us as long as we accomplish the results we are after1 but we will give #ej pounds of coal free every day1 as we have for the past three winters1 on presentation at any of our yards listed below of our coal certificates which may be had from any ,physician1 ,minister1 ,priest1 ,rabbi1 ,newspaper1 the ,salvation ,army1 the ,volunteers of ,america1 ,associated ,charities1 the ,visiting ,nurses ,association1 any ,woman's ,club or ,charitable ,organization4 ,and we give it freely without any fuss or foolishness4 ,last year we distributed #gj1gbj fifty-pound lots of ,consumers coal4 ,you may call them advertising samples or charity just as you choose4 ,in either event we know that we kept #gj1gbj families warm4 ,this is our ,christmas offering and in this manner we propose to make ,christmas last all winter4 ,if we profit by it later--when these good folks are in position to become paying customers1 you won't care1 will you8 ,we think not4 ,consumers ,company ,,fred ,w4 ,,upham1 ,president4 ,,buy ,,your ,,books ,,here ,if you wish to assist ,the ,little ,review without cost to yourself you may order books--any book--from the ,gotham ,book ,society and ,the ,little ,review will be benefitted by the sales4 ,by this method ,the ,little ,review hopes to help solve a sometimes perplexing business problem--whether the book you want is listed here or not the ,gotham will supply your needs4 ,price the same1 or in many instances much less1 than were you to order direct from the publisher4 ,all books are exactly as advertised4 ,send ,p4 ,o4 ,money ,order1 check1 draft or postage stamps4 ,order direct from the ,gotham ,book ,society1 #adb ,w4 #bcrd ,st41 ,n4 ,y41 ,dept4 ,k4 ,don't fail to mention ,department ,k4 ,here are some suggestions of the books the ,gotham ,book ,society is selling at publishers' prices4 ,all prices cover postage charges4 ,,poetry ,,and ,,drama ,,seven ,,short ,,plays4 ,by ,lady ,gregory4 ,contains the following plays by the woman who holds one of the three places of most importance in the modern ,celtic movement1 and is chiefly responsible for the ,irish theatrical development of recent years3 8,spreading the ,news10 8,hyacinth ,halvey10 8,the ,rising of the ,moon10 8,the ,jackdaw10 8,the ,workhouse ,ward10 8,the ,traveling ,man10 8,the ,gaol ,gate10 together with music for songs in the plays and explanatory notes4 ,send #a4fj4 ,,the ,,man ,,who ,,married ,a ,,dumb ,,wife4 ,by ,anatole ,france4 ,translated by ,curtis ,hidden ,page4 ,illustrated4 ,founded on the plot of an old but lost play mentioned by ,rabelais4 ,send #he;c4 ,,the ,,gardener4 ,by ,rabindranath ,tagore4 ,the famous collection of lyrics of love and life by the ,nobel ,prizeman4 ,send #a4ce4 ,,dome ,,of ,,many-,,colored ,,glass4 ,new ,ed4 of the ,poems of ,amy ,lowell4 ,send #a4ce4 ,,spoon ,,river ,,anthology4 ,by ,edgar ,lee ,masters4 ,send #a4ce4 ,,dreams ,,and ,,dust4 ,a book of lyrics1 ballads and other verse forms in which the major key is that of cheerfulness4 ,send #a4bh4 ,,some ,,imagist ,,poets4 ,an ,anthology4 ,the best recent work of ,richard ,aldington1 8,h4 ,d410 ,john ,gould1 ,fletcher1 ,f4 ,s4 ,flint1 ,d4 ,h4 ,lawrence and ,amy ,lowell4 #hc;c1 postpaid4 ,,the ,,wages ,,of ,,war4 ,by ,j4 ,wiegand and ,wilhelm ,scharrelman4 ,a play in three acts1 dedicated to the ,friends of ,peace4 ,life in ,russia during ,russo-,japanese ,war4 ,translated by ,amelia ,von ,ende4 ,send #ie;c4 ,,the ,,dawn 7,les ,aubes74 ,a symbolic war play1 by ,emile ,verhaeren1 the poet of the ,belgians4 ,the author approaches life through the feelings and passions4 ,send #a4aj4 ,,child ,,of ,,the ,,amazons1 and other ,poems by ,max ,eastman4 8,mr4 ,eastman has the gift of the singing line40--,vida ,d4 ,scudder4 8,a poet of beautiful form and feeling40--,wm4 ,marion ,reedy4 ,send #a4aj4 ,,the ,,poet ,,in ,,the ,,desert4 ,by ,charles ,erskine ,scott ,wood4 ,a series of rebel poems from the ,great ,american ,desert1 dealing with ,nature1 ,life and all phases of ,revolutionary ,thought4 ,octavo gray boards4 ,send #a4aj4 ,,challenge4 ,by ,louis ,untermeyer4 8,no other contemporary poet has more independently and imperiously voiced the dominant thought of the times40--,philadelphia ,north ,american4 ,send #a4aj4 ,,arrows ,,in ,,the ,,gale4 ,by ,arturo ,giovannitti1 introduction by ,helen ,keller4 ,this book contains the thrilling poem 8,the ,cage40 ,send #a4aj4 ,,songs ,,for ,,the ,,new ,,age4 ,by ,james ,oppenheim4 8,a rousing volume1 full of vehement protest and splendor40 ,beautifully bound4 ,send #a4ce4 ,,and ,,pippa ,,dances4 ,by ,gerhart ,hauptmann4 ,a mystical tale of the glassworks1 in four acts4 ,translated by ,mary ,harned4 ,send #ie;c4 ,,agnes ,,bernauer4 ,by ,frederick ,hebbel4 ,a tragedy in five acts4 ,life in ,germany in #aeth century4 ,translated by ,loueen 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