nervous instaoiity oc oo. in raris
he falls in love with a shallow, in-
sincere, extravagant, altogether
worthless woman. The victim of an
hereditary lack of balance and sense.
of proportion, he allows this woman
to consume his whole life. Her pres-
ence keeps him from writing his nov-
els. He is driven to desperate and un-
scrupulous methods of . securing
money to satisfy her whims. When
she has exhausted his funds she turns
to other lovers; and Jean, finding his
mistress unfaithful, is virtually
driven insane by the agony of wild
passion and jealousy. His vision, his
imagination, his every thought is dis-
torted by a mad eroticism. The days
and nights become nightmares of rav-
ings and mental tortures,
So his existence continues until he
is finally brought to realize the folly
and hopelessness of trying fo attain
the love of such a woman. He de-
terminesto force Juliette out of his
mind, and the book closes with him at,
last free but with a vision not yet
back in focus.
Like Zola again, Mirbeau admits to
a moral purpose. The unfortunate
Jean is held up as a kind of "horrible"
example." But, overlooking this
moral purpose and granting the auth-
or's premises-the neurotic hero, the
Latin temperament, the Parisian
scone-one finds a novel written with
a heat, a power, and a vigor that ele-
vate it far above the ordinary.
PHOTOSTAT HELPS LIBRARIAN
(Continued from Page 1)
It has always been a hard- problem
-that of finding a way to carry con-
had to be taken along, and Mr. Bishop Knopf is publishing two new animal Scribner's is publishing a collec-
set out on his trip to Europe with no stories by a Danish naturalist, Svend tion of sixteen one-act plays by B.
more official baggage than a light Fleuron. "Kittens, A Family Chron- Roland Lewis, entitled"One-Act
brief case. He says that the posses- isle," is translated by David Pritch-
sion of these convenient lists enabled ard, and "Grim, the Story of a Pike," Plays for High Schools." In it are in-
him to secure several hundred vol- is translated by J. Muir and J. Alex- cluded plays by such modern writers
umes which he would not have been ander. The stories are said to let the as Sir James Barrie, George Middle-
able to purchase otherwise. He car- reader into the psychology of the aei- ton, Althea Thurston, Percy Mackaye,
ried his list with him wherever he mals, without their actually stepping Eugene Pillot, Anton Tchekov, Bos-
went, and it took only a moment to out of character, and are not merely worth Crocker, Paul Hervieu, David
consult his book on the spot, no mat- children's books. Pinski, and others.
ter where he was. The time and labor -
ordinarily required to obtain the sets
was greatly reduced, and many mis-
takes were avoided. j I
A PORTRAIT OF JOSEPH HERGES-
HEINER-
An intimate picture of Joseph
Hergesheimer, author of "Cytherea,"
(Knopf), is given in the article by an
anonymous writer in the May Book-
man. Hergesheimer's early -struggles
are thus described:
"Hergesheimer 'inherited a bit of
money and a weak constitution. As
a boy he=was a bookworm, shy and
reserved. When money fell into his
hands he forthwith got married and
lived in Florence. There he suffered
a nervous breakdown and was nursed
back to health by Dorothy after
months of care and anxiety. He
wrote for fourteen years, urged on by
a dogged belief in himself, without
having a single manuscript accepted.
He and Dorothy bore the pinch of ad-
versity and the rebuffs of editors with
fortitude, and the final triumph was
therefore all the sweeter. In those
years of apprentice work, his masters
were Conrad, Henry James, Meredith
and Flaubert."
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enientLy a card catalogue system of
uportant proportions of a great li- In contrast to this his present mode
rary. Cardboard is very heavy, so "One of his favorite exprs siens in
sat if a man tries to take along the
ards themselves, he will likely be speech is 'utterly charming,' and ut-
bliged to transport a ton or two of terly charming describes his home in
aper. One person once had a special West Chester. It is an ancient house
ooden frame of drawers constructed built.of boulder stones, with huge fire-
hold his cards. It took a taxicab places and heavy, seasoned timbers.
take it to and from the railroad It sits away from the road on a
ations where he stopped, and he rounded knoll, a little sombre and
ould often have to run back and conimanding. Airedales disport them-
rth from the book-sellers to his selves on the lawn. Two cars, one
otel room to consult the catalogue Joe's and the other Dorothy's, are in
ver a doubtful volume. the ample barn, now equipped as a
B h n garage. Servants perfectly trained;
But Hr. Bishop had no intention of furnishings a continual surprise and
ndergoing any such difficulties. He delight, inevitably placed; and plenty
sought long and hard, and he worked of hot water, a. rarity in _ country
nd worried, until he finally evolved homes. Over this deniesne rules Dor-
n entirely new and unusually satis- othy, frank, cordial, unaffected, whole-
ictory method. He had been ex- some, pretty, and lovable."
erimenting with the photostat, a de- An interesting account is given of
ice which in 'photographing written how Hergesheimer writes:
ages, can be made to reduce the size
f the writing as much as one-half, "With such a home one would think
nd .still retain its legibility. He that Hergesheimer would do all his
iund that , large handwriting, in writing there, isolated and quiet,
lack ink, is much clearer in the among familiar surroundings. In-
hototastic copies than is typewriting stead he rents a small office opposite
r printing. In fact, others have the court house in West Chester and
'ied to do much the same thing with arrives there at nine o'clock in the
rpewritten lists, but the results have morning, like a business man. He
een very unsatisfactory. According- has steel filing cabinets in which he.
, he had many of his cards rewrit- keeps his notes, his correspondence,
o in this manseer, and then he ar- and the manuscripts of everything he
anged them, alphabetically, on a fiat writes.. He uses a stub pen and writes
urface. .By overlapping the cards the first draft carefully in a grade-
he more than one-half blank space school composition book. Then his
'hich is usually found on them was secretary makes a triple-spaced copy
on the typewriter. He goes through
avereanth hty-five car nto a spa it carefully, making innumerable
ahich would form a page about 7 changes and corrections. She copies
y 5/ inches when the photostatic it again, and again he makes correc-
ipy was made. A very thin but firm tions. The third draft and even the
rede of paper was used for making printer's proof are not free from his
le prints, and when the whole book rearrangement of words."
'as completed, it was not more than
half an inch thick. The pages were "Types of the Essay" (Scribner's)
ound in the library bindery, and the by Benjamin A. Heydrick, head of the
esuit was a neat red-covered book, English department, High School of
ompact and handy, and just about Commerce, New York City, is a se-
he size of a piece of typewriter lection of representative British and
aper. American essays, arranged to illus-
Two or three similar books were trate the types which have developed
iade, containing other lists which in this form of prose.
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