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4 ill THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. FRIDAY. JULY 3, 1925. ler, the author of 15 other books of Measured Rhyme and Free Verse, by D.

Passed in Review AN INDUCEMENT. Wife What shall we say in ourS advertlsment for a cook? Hub Say that we will take her to any summer resort she may prefer. Boston Transcript. GEORGE CURRIE: A FIRST novel offers a risk which is fortunately not involved with a second. The publisher, the critic and the public know something of what to expect when the author emerges from seclusion and announces that his lusty genius has been born again.

The Running Reader I By DU BOIS WIGGINS 1 When there are such clever persons In the world it seems strange that they do not become world famous. Among these clever writers Is George Weston. For years he has been turning out short stories far above the average, and yet ask respecting him of the usual person conversant with contemporary literary mat Hers and even his name may be unknown. His latest effort Is a sparkling story of two irrepresslbly gay twins on a Mediterranean cruise. URGES A QUIET FOURTH IN HOSPITAL DISTRICTS Editor Brooklyn Daily Bagle: My father, Walter B.

Brown, asked me to write you about the precautions that might be taken to have quiet prevail aroundtbe city hospitals on the Fourth of Julv. He has been undergoing an operation at the 5i J1." SanltIrlum and the other mgnt an Italian celebration within a OP 5 waa accompanied by rockets and detonations that threw into disturbance. Ap- I thL" was given a Lb.yuth? authorities, mi holiday approaching we wilfa "me 4 ZfjL Patients' in the hvyn als wl" be disturbed to the material supposedly used by Shakespeare in writing the IS dramas here considered. That Shakespeare did not invent the plots of most of his plays Is a well-known fact, but an easy access to the material which he did use has hitherto been the portion of the erudite only. Now through this book it is possible for any one to read Ban-dello and others In English.

The sections of this book devoted to grammatical and glossarlal matter will prove Invaluahle alike to the novice and to the much-read in Shakespeare. Duffield Co. have issued "A Book of Essays for High School Students." edited hy Charles R. Gaston. Ph.D.

These 1 6 essays, written by men of the hour, such as Warner, Hale, Roosevelt, A. V. Benson, Higglnson, Lippman. Edwin Arnold and Bran-der Matthews, have all at some time or other appeared in The Forum. The object of such a book is to quicken the life of English classes, The critic is particularly genial In the presence of a second novel.

Hyffoes not have to put his foot forward cautlouslv. conscious that may be tripped up by a peculiar fate which so frequently makes -RESTAURANTS BROOKLYN. ALWAYS OPEN J. E. BRISTOL, Prop.

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One of the twins won a prize to the oldest known sea of antiquity. All the luxuries that the ship could offer were to be at her disposal. But instead of happiness this good fortune brought to the twins the sad realization that they were to be parted. Then thn clever idea that makes the book unusual came. The cabin assigned to Ethel, the winner of the prize, could be used for two.

If thoy were careful not to be seen together. With feelings alternating between pins and needles and glee the plot was carried out and the two girls began the cruise. What efforts they made to escape detection and how they both fell In love and Into other predicaments make the remainder of the book. Scaffolds and ladders, swords and daggers, spear points and all such irut their bold way through the pages of "Brave Earth," the latest novel by A. T.

Sheppard, published by the George H. Doran Company. Like most books dealing with a subject and an era that the author loves, the style Is excellent. For Instance, at the beginning he says, "Now and then Henry Arundell remembered his betrothal as one reiuembers a not very pleasant dream, fading with growing sunlight into the unreal. On a day he had waited in miserable anger while, it seemed, two Abrahams sharpened their knives for sacrifice." The sacrifice was the hero's dream of happiness In marriage, for he was betrothed at IS to Elizabeth Ful-ford, pop-eyed, fat, fair and smooth, with blue eyes, and 13 years of age.

Ttte solemnity and pomp that characterized Sixteenth Century ceremonies in England made the affair the more unbearable to him, and through his mind flashed the picture of Jaekett running wild with her long legs across the sands at Lympstone, her black eyes alight. This vision at the moment did him no good, for Elizabeth's money bags were fatter than she was and her lands broader than her silhouette. But the rest of the volume tells how. in the end, matters turned out as you would expect in a romance If not In the life you know round about you. For the reader, before the final page Is turned, there Is staged a tumultuous drama against the fantastic and vivid curtain of gay love and revel, dancing and combat and all the elements of an age and a society In some ways more glorious than the more democratic but less colorful one that weighs so heavily upon us HOW.

The constant whirlwind of haste which characterizes the American people leaves In lta path countless victims of high blood omanr i the view of Dr. William S. Sadler, aa expressed in the book, "Amerl- canms, uiooa t'ressure and Nerves published by Macmlllan. Dr. Sad RESTAURANTS BROOKLYN.

his toll ridiculous In the eyes of the public. If the new novel fulfills the promise of the earlier, he may sing hosannas, and if they sound suspiciously like an "I told you so," so much the better. If the new brainchild suffers by comparison with its elder brother he can sharpen his wit and forthwith slay the inferior thing, in the Interest of lit- erary eugenics and the public's pocketbook. Or if It Is even worse than that, he may dismiss It with a shrug of the shoulders, leaving It to die of starvation. William it seems to me, has more than fulfilled the promise suggested by his 'Futility" in "The Polyglots" (Duffield and Company).

I am unable to sing hosannas, because another reviewed "Futility" for The Eagle. But there is no unwritten law because of that which obligates me to restrain my epiglottis as It bobbles up and down to make noises of psalm singing for "The Polyglots." This man, once a British Army captain and a Btaff officer at that, has come home from the Far East and has gone to writing books, after the honored custom of British globe-trotting brass hats on half-pay. His latest is even a travel book, of a sort, sweeping from Harbin to Shanghnl. through the Indian Ocean Into the Mediterranean by way of the Red Sea, out through the Pillars of Hercules into the Bay of Biscay and thence to England. The world Is his good, fat oyster.

The cocktail sauce Is his own distinctive recipe. PART of the thanksgiving must be ascribed to a second novel which does not majte the reviewer feel he ought to say nice things about it without quite knowing why. Gerhard! tells the story of an aunt who had everything her own way. To do It, she had to bid the fureaw of war stand by until she brought her soldier-husband out of Belgium to the less perilous atmosphere of Japan. For the duration of the war she continued to defy the forces which are let loose periodically, to bathe us all in glowing patriotism and blood, and, after it Is all over, to leave us high and dry In the chaotic ruins, to wonder what It was all about.

The book, of course, Is satirical. The eerjous manners of world-rocking forces, as they set about to do simple killing, with as laboriously Ingenious devices as human love of complications can devise, rouses the author to enthusiastic derision. Attacking with an aunt, who was mostly a hypochondriac, the solemn majesty of the Allied and Associated Powers Is merely his method of saying that which 6tr Philip Gibbs, H. O. Wells and Senator Borah say with such self-conscious and solemn unction.

This aunt is a great destroyer. To come near her is to be sucked dry of money, self and independence. She is the clinging vine who destroys her hosts. Her husband, inevitably, becomes a satyr, prancing pathetically In the lairs of geisha nymphs, a man whose only answer to a family crisis is "Courage, mon ami, courage!" Her daughter la cut off from her romance and married to a Belgian banker for the good of the service for keeping Aunt Theresa In funds Is a service, one Is made to feel, that la no less loftily Inspired than the consecrated quest of Peter the Hermit's crusaders for the Holy Sepulcher at Jerusalem. Gustave fulfilled his destiny when he bridged the gap between lost dividends In Russia and the return to Europe.

Aunt Theresa is clear in her own mind that he and bridal bliss are of a natural dlsassoclatlon. Allowed to remain at the wedding feast, he was dismissed immediately after. Sylvia was consoled, it Is true; but Aunt Therese was consistent. The bridegroom was absent from the nuptial chamber during the consolation. Fluttering about In the background are others of Aunt Theresa's victims.

The Tefugee nieces and nephews; the suicide brother, who, losing her dividends and investing the little remains of his fortune In rubles, hanged himself, clad In her silk knickerbockers and lace cap; the General "Pshe-Pshe," abandoned by the Allies to the Bolshevikl, are part of the disastrous yet serenely complacent argosy of this willful lady. Even the death of little Natasha, crammed full of education for the sol purpose of having her childish spontaneous "Oh, how beauty! Oh. what a lovely!" drowned in a burial at sea In tha Indian Ocean, Is symbolic. Captain George admits at the end that Aunt Therese, at the limit of her resources, expects him to do his duty by selling a tremendout number of his novel. ASIDE from the novelty of meeting an Army officer who was mentioned In dispatches and decorated by several governments, but who in spite of it retains a sardonic wit, "The Polyglots" is notable for Its almost photographic panorama of the complete frustration of human affairs In Siberia after the Armistice and during the long hesitancy of the Allies.

The peasants' laughter at the brass band of General "Pshe-Pshe," playing Aunt Therese's flock away from the Harbin station with full but bedraggled military honors, Is like making American readers acquainted with all the pompous figures who have decorated the rotogravure supplements since Nov. 11, 1918. This novel la as much an essay on human Inconsequence as It-Is the history of the human lemons, sucked dry by thirsty Aunt Therese. Gerhardl has enjoyed swallowing his oyster in the epicurean sauce of his own making. He Is not overwhelmed by the epochal qualities of his novel.

Tha reader knows that ha has had a good time writing the book. His evident pleasure hops across space from the page by means of that Inductive and Intangible current which runs throughAnthony Troilope'a works and leaves us enthused enough to overlook many obvious faults. The author himself says: "The misguided reviewers who have damned my last book, and who will damn this one, I damn In advance. My last one was a macedolne of vegetables. The critics big dogs, small dogs, hounds and Pekingese came up and sniffed at an unfamiliar vegetable dish, and went away, wagging their tails con-fusedly.

But this should be more beefy No matter. I am not you won't misunderstand me? writing a novel; I am asking: Will this do for a novel?" With Next SUNDA Y'S EAGLE and John Erskine By DANIEL HI GH VKROER. "SONATA AND OTHER POEMS." by John Erskine (Duffield HOW do I like this book, do you ask? Rather well, I answer. Sophisticated, perhaps, is the adjective that best describes it as a whole. Then, too, the adjective elliptical la applicable to much of it, It seems to ttie.

Twenty-seven dashes I counted lit reading 70 sonnet lines, and often ellipsis is not indicated by the dash. The most significant feature about this volume is the newness of most of the poetic material used. No one has ever before, to my knowledge, celebrated a Bth ave. bus driver In verse. It has remained to Professor Erskine to do that for us.

In the poem that gives the book its title, "Sonata," the contrast involved between the nude and the landscape In painting as worked out by Mr. Erskine Is naive Indeed. As I read this poem I could sense somewhat of Browning In the treatment of tho subject. In the second poem of the book the situation smacks of the same poet. It is the kind of Incident that Interested the great Victorian.

Of the 10 sonnets this volume contains, the best is the "Third" of the "Versailles Group." Here in another twilight when I came. Where the queen had her pleasure long ago. Playing at shepherdess and farmer's dame. Who tends her cattle in the milking row, So dark It was, I could not guess wnat Dougn Shaded her till the meadow heat should pass: But here at twilight I can see her now, The young queen walking on the tidy grass, With some young girl who adored her, and was lost With that high moment of romance and love; ITootfalls I almost hnrken, and behold Silk slippers, stiff brocades, the kerchief crossed, The courtly headdress, and proud eyes above Bosoms half veiled, too lovely to be bold. One line from the sonnet entitled "Ghost" is much to my liking, both for its thought and for Its form.

As It seems to me to be worthy of remembrance, I pass It on: "The beauty thnt begets love, love outgrows." The line "Beauty besieger us, where'er we. are." in another poem recalls that delectable stanza by Emily Dickinson: Beauty crowds me till I die. Beauty, mercy have on me; But if I expire today, Let it be In sight of thee. How far we moderns fall short of such production both in imagination and in form or expression I "COLLECTED POEMS OF H. (Bonl Llverlght).

"IT has been considered for 1. several years the exponent of one kind of free verse, and rightly so, I believe. I have had In the book wherein I transcribe poems I greatly admire two of her poems for some time "Garden" and "Oread." I have read them to classes in English aa examples of contemporary verse showing originality. "Oread" goes: Whirl up, sea Whirl your pointed pines, Splash your great pines On our rocks. Hurl your green over us.

Cover us with your pools of fir. Quite different Is this from Longfellow and his like. Tet I see here and there in the work of a trace of Emerson, great originator in verse as he was. The chief characteristic of these poems Is their extreme aensuousness. They appeal to the senses rather than to the Intellect.

Speaking of hyacinths, which seems to he. a favorite flower of she says in They grew among the hollows Of the hills; As tf the sea had spilled Its blue. As If the sea had risen From its bed. And sinking to the level of the shore, nyacintns on the noor. Here the sense of sight Is ar- pealed to; In the following, the sense of touch: While, breath on breath.

Tour mouth wanders From my mouth o'er my face. In the following the sense of smell: Can honey distill such fragrance As your bright hair For your face is as fair as rain, Tet as rain that lies clear On white honey-comb. But these poems are not devoid of appeal to the mind. Witness these five fine lines from At least I have the flowers of myself. And my thoughts, no god Can take that; I have the fervor of myself for a presence And my own spirit for light.

I suppose we must expect from Its very nature much of this sort of poetry to be elliptical. We are not disappointed of our expectation in the verse of Even when we have sucked Its honeyed sweet, we are not satisfied. I had rather write two little lyrics in the formal style, such as W'lllani Blake wrote, or write two sonnets like the best of Santayannns, than be the author of the 0 pages that make this book. When all has been said and gone over. I still remain an aristocrat In my preference in poetry.

I like the rime and the measured line. I take pleasure in expecting the incurrence of those things In a roert which go to make up Its pattern. An excursion in Tree verse now and then Is rather pleasant, but not aa a steady diet. Six Books for Students Allyn Paeon have Issued a new edition of Stevenson's "Kidnapped." It Is edited with biography, notes and questions by A. B.

de Mllle of Simmons College, Boston. The section devoted to the bingrnpl.v Is especially well Illustrated. This book should Interest those who are fond of the great Scotch novelist. The same publishers have also Just Issued a new edition of Longfellow's Talcs of a Waysldo Inn." A book Intended for more ad vanced students In English Is "A Shskespeare Handbook." hy Prof. Itaymond M.

Alden, published by V. S. Crofts, New York. The greater part of this book is devoted o. i Story by Fannie Hunt Highest Paid ShorC Story Writer in the World Europe Ten Years After the World War First Article: Tragic Paris By SIR PHILIP GIBBS popular nature dealing with various phases of the health question, was formerly a professor at the Post Graduate Medical School of Chicago and writes well, Informatively, and entertainingly of his subject.

In the preface to his work he says that Just 20 years ago he gave a public address on "Americanitis, or the High Pressure Life," and that In, the intervening years the lecture has been given more than BOO times throughout the United States, but, of course, revised from year to year to keep step with the developments In medical science. High tension is the chief factor causing troubles in modern social and commercial life, he flpds, and his purpose In at last putting his facts and opinions into book form Is to emphasize the Importance of early warning signals, that thousands of people may avoid the se rious later consequences sure to follow if the first symptoms of disaster are Ignored. Theatrical Notes "The Female of the Species," a new play by Mrs. Lila Longson, a newcomer In the playwrlghting field, will be presented in New York soon In one of the Shubert theaters. Frances Williams, whose "blues" songs are a feature of "Artists and Models, Paris Edition," at the Winter Garden, has Introduced two new numbers, "Sympathetic Dan" and "Sweet Georgia Brown," by Ben Bernie.

Harold Atterldge haa been engaged by Rufus LeMalre to write several sketches and scenes for his new revue, "Greenwich Village Scandals." Frederic Clayton has been engaged by Gustav Blum to manage the road tour of "My Son," which will open In Philadelphia on Labor Day. "Caught," by Kate L. Mc-Laurln. is being prepared by Mr. Blum for a New York opening In September.

George Gershwin has signed contracts with Aarons and Freedley tc compose the score for the new musical comedy which is to be the successor of "Lady, Be Good." "A portrait of the Scarlet Woman by herielf." ProTldence Journal TheWomanlAm By AMBER LEE $2.00 THOMAS SELTZER, TV. Ith SL.N.T. ACTS LIKE MAKirr Banish Pimples By Using Guticura Soap to Ointment fn HmI Try our rw Shasrlnst Stick. RESTAURANTS BROOKLYX. 3009 Emmons Ave.

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It can be used very profitably along with other class work to relieve the tedium of more serious endeavor. The Oxford University Press has recently issued a book that is rathet unique In subject matter. It is titled "The Literary Genius of the Old Testament," and is written by P. C. Sands, headmaster of Pock.

Hngton School and late fellow of St. John's College. Cambridge. It Is not a large book It has but 123 pages, Including notes and index but It illuminates, and provokes appreciation of the literary style of the Old Testament. It deals with its diction, imagery, allegory and kindred subjects.

It should be a good textbook to be taken tip by college or advanced students. Another textbook that demands more than a mere notice la "Good English, Book by Canby and Opdycke, published by the Macmlllan Company. This book Is divided into two parts; the first contains four chapters entitled as follows: "How to Be Interesting," "How to Be Clear," "How to Be Convincing," "How to Be Thorough." The second part Is devoted to grammar, punctuation and spelling. This book is intended for pupils between the ages of 12 and IB. It is embellished by a number of colorful prints Inserted to arouse the Imagination of the youthful writer.

There Is a freshness In the whole make-up of the book thai reflects the freshness of the material It contains. It is our opinion that many people beyond the age of puberty will find pleasure and profit In perusing It. Any one who helps Is fellowmen to give fit expression to their thoughts Is a benefactor and should be hailed as such. D. H.

V. CLEMENT WOOD'S POETS Critics may be divided into those who present the excellent features of the work created by the authors they consider and let the dross go unmentloned, or, at best, referred to In that classlo phrase, "Such and such need, not detain us," -and, on the other hand, those critics who obtrude before the reader Imperfections aa well aa high lights. In other words, there exists the anthologist and the wise-cracker who would prove how superior he Is to the works of other writers. Louis Untermeyer, In his books on American poetry, clearly belongs to the first class. Clement Wood, wtose new book, "Poets of America," Is published by E.

P. Dtflton demonstrates that he belongs to the latter. He Is not smart alec about it, like Frank Harris, who measures all things, both small and great, by himself, and flnds them puny In comparison, but at the same time there Is no doubt he takes the pleasure felt by the sufferer from the Inferiority complex when he parades the poor work of other poets. He shows the good also, but sometimes does not like it particularly. In his individual studies of the poets, his essays are replete with copious quotations, contrasting selections occasionally from English poets, biographical facts, bits of literary history and criticism.

A chapter Is devoted to Adah Isaacs Menken, whose life reads like a dime novel, while the old New England poets are dismissed In a few pages. In another chapter he deals with folk songs of Indian and negro origin, and furnishes an excellent critical introduction to the volume. In turn Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, Adah Isaacs Menken, Sidney Lanier. Emily Dickinson, Edwin Arlington Robinson. Robert Frost, Fdgar Lee Masters, John Hall Wheelock, Edna St.

Vincent Mlllay. Amy Lowell, Vachel Lindsay. Carl Sandburk. Elinor Wylle, Rose O'Neill, and various other poets and poetesses of leaser rank are considered. Wood shows strong prejudices In favor of Pose O'Neill, John Hall Wheelock Walt Whitman, and thoroughly nans Amy Lowell, Vschel Lindsay, EiTgar Lee Masters, snd the modern experimental poets, like Alfred Kremhorg, Maxwell Boden-helm and others.

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NO COVER CHARGE I nder I'eraonal Hanaaement of JOHNNY MAHER and JOHN C. CALHOUN, Accommodatlnna for laie and email banquet and partlea. CHILDISH though this "may sound, It is not without Its reservoir of feeling. Little George, looking out the window, beholds the lightning and calls upstairs: "Mother, God has turned on the electricity." And Roy corrects him, shouting: "No, It's a rainbow, a whole lot of It." The trolley car down the street, washed off Its tracks and stuck In the mud; the water, rising In the cellar; the grass, flat on Its back along deep channels, gutted through by the torrent rolling off the hill, are pleasures brought up in the rear of the electrical rainbow by a kind providence anxious to ftmu-, small boys. So it is with Gerhardl.

He has enjoyed the blunders, has been momentarily appalled by war and found it was all right, after all, since it did not matter and was funny. He splashes about with keen pleasure, flinging his drops of water upon a stony public, conscious that even stone can be worn down by enough tossing. His methods encourage one to read on. He shows up the depths by merely skimming the surface. I hope that when his next novel comes out I will yet be able to sing those hosannas which sound strangely like an "I told you no." BEN AMES WILLIAMS Is another of those authors of vision who are finding romance and literature In the soil of America and like Antaeus, he gathers new strength each time he digs his feet Into his own Mother Earth.

"The Rational Hind" (E. P. Ditttoii Co.) Is the story of the Dlllards, who throve on the soil untli the ground, burned out by the fury of their zeal for crops, began to falter. Like the ground, they too faltered. Esther LMllard, the proud custodian of the family tradition, stubbornly opposing change even when starved acres threatened to overwhelm her and hers In revenge for that which her father and father's father had taken out snd had not replaced, Is old New England sterile, picturesque decay.

Williams has the happy faculty of writing with a tremendous simplicity. He can decorate the tragedy of commonplace with a colorful and sympathetic understanding. Esther, hard, repressed, becomes 'a Rachel, weeping silently for her children because they were not, and finding comfurt In the savage frustration of one brother and In a self-pity arising from the success of another who made the discovery that New England ground would yield Its increase if It were wooed with that love which the peasant of Europe has felt sub-consciously for centuries toward the holdings of his sneestor. THE of Richard Harding Davis and George Hsrr McCutch-eon Is dying, but It Is not dead. Americans remain somewhat M'ulogetlcunlesaa thing's Imported.

Thenatlonal complex continues to he Inferiority, but forces are at work to compel the attention of our novelists to the rich and unharvested crop of stories almost under their nosrs. Edith Wharton still scampers back and foriji across the Atlantic; Sinclair Lewis, however, hus started the eodus frcjm foreign parts well oh Its way. But he la too sardonic; he does not always understand. Sherwood Anderson has caught the scent. It IH strangely slfMflcant BEAUTIFUL SUMMER GARDENS Willie Park, the Best Putter That Ever Lived By GEORGE TREVOR Bushwick Parkway by Elmer Grosso and His Famous Versatile Orchestra Sports Articles by Frank Frisch, Captain of the Giants; Thomas S.

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We bow down as a nation to H. G. Wells because he tells about existence as it Is seen by his own Europe. Some day we are going to have sense enough to bow down to our own who tell us about existence as we see it. "The national Hind" makes one feel rural New England and enlivens the Inarticulate suffering of farmers fettered to lost traditions and timid In the presence of their more progressive brethren who are whipping the.

soil back to do their bidding. He la to Maine what Knut Hamsun Is to Norway. "You'll Tell the Have a Case of Malt Brew Delivered to Your Home or Office In the Comic Section Hairbreadth Harry, Some body's Stenog, Mr. Straphanger, Uncle Wiggily TELEPHONE mm nine' JriTini iht hitt inniewwni ijim inrr i.