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SUNDIAY, ~FEBRUARY 18, 1923
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THE WORLD IN FALSEFAVE, by l-he clarity, the simonlici , of his atye
Oteorge Jean Nathian.. Alfred t otb win our ur.ier tandiag: and eom-n
Kniopf. pel our admiratin. In technical abil-
Reviewed by Robert Bartron iity. assuiredly, Housman is beyond
(:citiciSm1.
I admit it. I was the only person "or is his technique a thing opait,
about the place 'who had not read ,ftc; e. divorced from the subject.
at least one of George Jean Nathan's !matter. As in all poety ,vorthy o
books. It all came about because Cote name, formi and thougi~t ecan
was once told that he did not ike loe to the advantage of both. lous-
Walter Hampden,- which immediately! mal is no mere acrobat in verse, per-.
made ine certain that the fellow wasE forming marvelous yet meaningless
crazy. But. you never can tell how! verbal feats for his own amusement.
far you will eventually fal: I haveieo is an artist, comprehending and
read "The World in Falseface" and deosrtnthtuiyfmasad
despite all my livid prejudices I havefedemonstratinghtuisteofgmeastan
to admit that I liked it immensely.i poetry
The book is divided into four parts.! Whether the end be of value is an-
Parts 1, 111, and IV are a composite 1other question. I for one believe that
hash of epigrams and statistics. Thei it is. That delicate, sophisticated pes-
general effect suggests the product sflnism expressed by Housman is a
of a precocious high school senior needed contrast to the bluff, bold ges-
who has just discovered 'Wilde' and tues characteristic of our poets.
the naughty- nineties. When Mr.a There are certain things which we
Nathan talks of the theatre I listen English do excellently, there are cer-;
with respect, but when he babbles of 'tamn desirable qualities which our
meb, women, and philosophy, I 'throw'verse- always displays; -but subtlety
the trash out of the window. I of mood, nicety of taste-tact-in a
But do not let this frighten you, ord if you will- is not among them2.I
for Part II, concerning the Theatre1 Tane-pointed out that our writers are
and the Dramna, more than compen-)barbarians: without believing that this
sates for the stuff on its either side. fact damns them, we must neverth-
In the first place, these tabloid less admit that a little civilization, a
essays, parodies. and1 what-not give little polish, a little restraint would
a most extraordinary picture of the o beneficial.
plan. For example, in one place hie This restraint, this cultured taste.
refers to Shaw as a critic who states 1-lousman offers. In his manner- of
the obvious in terms of the scandal-facing the world he differs noticeably
ous; now I defy you to find a more from, most of his predecessors; even
perfect description of' the authorl from moost of his contemporaries, in
himself. And there you have it: The Whom yearning for sophistication has
man is an Americanized G. B. S. ecently begun to spring 'forth, To
Irrdeed, the analogy becomes more ! the traditional Saxon mood his verse
striking whcn we realize that the.) c 111 alien; it sees een to have
game thing that is ruining Shaw 1,s1 been written in a different time. Most
destroying both Nathani and hisj Englis i poetry is of either arch or
djuble, Mleneken. Now that the smoke May; Husman's belongs to the cool
issi beginning to clear away, we see, faint April twilight, whose pathos, thin
that Shaw is only a Presbyterian mn- 'Yet compelling, always attracts those+
xer, for all. his explitives, and that to whom beauty is all the fairer- for
the two Americans are merely dilet- its frailty and elusiveness The spell
mnte Puritans laboring under- the-of Apri1,.Housman is tooSensitive 40-
delusion that they are decadents. -The resist, too witty .toaccept entire-lHe
middle class mob is beginning to take , iscla5ssis in his appreciation of swift,
all three seriously, they have becomeI clear- perfection; 'cassic, too, in his
heroes rather than (devils in their feeling that this perfection pases. He
eyes, antd thus their doom is sealed. i ya lle gest comparison with the Greek
The thing that Ta0-this",o apllr -~wt~atluwith orown
parent, particularly in the case ofGrecan, Lando r
MAr. Nathan, is the desparate way 1n Such praise is high, perhaps . too
which hie drags in all his petty vices-,!high. In relief at escape from- the1.
iHe wvill tell you just how many cig-j swelling bombast -that disfigures too
arettes he smokes a day wvith all much of -our verse, readers are likely
the braggadocio of the college fool to exaggerate the merits of lous-
who wears a checked wool shirt and man's delicacy and restraint. n truth,
toadies to six bootleggers in his at-! delicacy and restraint can easily be1
tempt. to be masculine. carried too far, until they end in ar-
But when the author -retires and fiiciaity.r From this danger H-ous-
his ideas occupy the stage instead, mean is not free. The constant plaint-
you have truly delightful reading. You ivonSs of his lyrics begins to weary
learn, for instance, that. he hates us; we desire a violent outburst, aI
Charles Rann Kennedy, -adores Hlaupt- greater robustness of -feeling and ex-{
Mann, laughs apt Barrie and condones pression. The mlan seems frustrate,
George M. Cohan, despises laeterlinck futile; and we turn in relief to affirm-
and applauds O'Neil. You are also ations and positve assertions, ~o-
told that those bad French trffles'ever grandiose.
are in truth very good, while those!
moral German dramas are as filthy' BATOUAJA, by Ree lar-n. Thomas
as an Avery Hopwood bedroom farce.; Seter-
When you have finished the book you Rvee yBrnSadi
will know that he sickens at the Rvee yBrnSadi
thought of the movies, the Chauve My faith in Thomas Seltzer is grow-
Souris, the Y. M. C. A., and the ing with each new book that comies
American actor, but is fascinated by from his publishing house His adver-
comedians, Rostand, and American itisements have carried such names
actresses. as D. . Lawrence, Sigmund Freud,
It is all very amazing, very bewilder-I Arthur Schntzler and Rene Maran for
ing, this whirligig of opinions. Of !the last half year-. Freud's place is
course, his works will not live, in indispensable. There are many who,
twenty years his books will be. like being able to appreciate him, place D.
old newspapers, -but that does not4x1. Lawrence in the first rank. Henry
alter their present fascination. "The ! Sedel Canby says, " . IAn :I
World' in Falseface" is one of those must go back as far as Hawthorne for
publications that are talked about, a satisfying parallel to D IH. Law-
Buy, :beg, or borrow it quickly, for', euce." :I,_ myself have had 'my say
it will hound you to distraction if J onerning Arthur Scnitzler, in these
France. It created much,:comment -in <velop' hig country ,but lackingthe inii-
that country, and so -as soon. trans- tiative of. the less :tropical ,peo-iYle he
lated into. other langu-age including 'is submissive. The plot' is the old
-English. - The general opit n that the j riang-le in an almost unrecognizable
English translation was expurgated !.form. The- outward reactions- of the
to quite an extent so with a righteous three differ so greatly from the usual
indignation against the Puritans I .left melodramatic treatmuent that it is-
it lying ,on the shelf for quite a ,long agreeably, masked. The knowledge.
while. At last I gave up, however, the that the author".himself is a black na-
thought of ever reading it in the orig- tive ctf the French Congo gives authen-
inal, my last interlineations being on jticity to the reaction s anid makes the
page twenty-one. So my indignation; book doubly .acceptable .
has at last given away to my curiosity -The people are aboriginal and trop-i-
and I have been whirled, dragged and cal almost to the extent of being su-
chased through' the jungle; of the i perb animal's. Instinct, a very keen'
French Congo to the rhythm of thei instinct in many cases, is their only
native tomttomis. . "thie balafons, guide. Their. sexual relations are en-
the Winghas and the knoundes." tirely'instinctive and to a large extent
The story is of Batouala, a black rat her open. This philosophy is
chieftan, bitterly hating the- lying,. brought out in such an objective man-
cheating whites who hav-e come 'to de-'ner, and is so acceptable because of
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But they of ten make other people's opinions of him. The
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After the- Civil zaed th whites in SAMUEL BURTON DOUGHTONl other hand the Cat
the. Sotht organized themselv-es fr_____________________________________cidn
p r o t e c ti o n . a g a n s t a n . i r r a t i o n a l : f r e e d = t h e ir__ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _c h i l dr__ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ e e d
slave, who had just been given his , schoolsI ~~ ~ ~ but the1
M r. o ug ton k n u w th ra e p oble In th e S out b e a us h ed row n ed th eir ar gvy
liberty on an ,equal basis in every.' las lived -there for many years. Ile also has had a peculiar opportunity of "un-American". d
respect with .the whites, his former to learn much of the workings of the Kt Klutx Klan. His story is built suting to the flag."
masters. Like every sin:.:ar ca se in' from1 actual contact with Klan perations although he has neer been TeeaE te'r
history, the Negro abused his, liberty, .tkmemfbr. ,Teeaeohrr
by usurping that which Nvas not given ;1 THE EDITOR n Mention only one in
hi m. le tried to enforce absurd law s.! _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ averse to havin g rl
Hence the Kut Klux Klan carne prowl-s politics and especia
ing weirdly through the darkness of grasp eagerly at any means of action Amrian o te ar oTteetr ehi th aI
night to check him. This organize- that pressents itself." It is well said !ois. Therin le the cause of the to gain political on
tnon accomlplished'its purpo-3e and dis- that he is not a man of thought, for Kflan's fight with tie Ronan church.:jaes lc her un2
solved, hle is guilty of the same faults with The Klan controls the politics of PIcne, bring back iti
T'oday, some would have us believe,' which he is indicting other people. the state of Oregon, and is adverse Middle-Agres and de
that, there is a problem confronting us ,He establishes his laws and proceeds'- to private or sectarian schooals. They' w iship. I ae h
which is vastly Yn~ore z~erious and 'to violate thenm; but he defies any maintain that every child should go ;time and tie ago:
in fintelye more complex ctelSoth afb oet the one 'z hemneing who dares to break. to a state school, and should be taught Catholics have enor
aftm er nteSuh fe h n fte.H proceeds to bestow loalty to the state first, last and all! their chapels filled i
Civil War. This saint Negro is a part' upon himself special privileges. He the time. Now In order to carry out' of war parapheala
cif the problem, but F1 c: y Pni7or part; overlooks his own iniquities, b u t their program, the legislature passed used in a fin':re~wa
the ina or ios es con ist of Cat olcs. ma-gnifaz the faults of others many: ;a law closing all private and denomti- meat. Now you wi
Jews, and the foreic c -i. Andc those - times. is own folly will defeat him. national schools in the state. On the' (Continued on
who would so hat hu-----l or- Who are Klan members? One it-!
ganized themselves i ,!?R':: t F/ lanta, :-ness, at the trial in Louisiana, says ?
Georgia. to solve thi; proW-r' :nil toj thnt (.ahlics, Jews; Negroes, and -" ...
place the United State- 1-c;U on the ' Foreign-born cannot -become members:
right. track. Pro-baJ1,i- f,,, advertise- of the organization. Another Kans-
ment, tlhe'.- (alled ,> -- . "The manl, speaking in Ohio, said that the
Knight-i of the Ku Klux Klan". Klan was not anti-Catholic anti-Jew f
Excepting the name, it is is no Way- or anti-Negro; but stood for onel T H I T R
related to tho old Klan. It has a dif-+hundred percent Americanism. Then
ferent purpc-~e; kt is geographically the Ku Klux Klan must be principa--BE OTHE PO
different; and it was aroused by more; ly composed of Protestants, born in BELON
Than one stimulus. At first it seenmed 'America, who measure up to the Mals
to be confined to the South ; but. as conception of a "hundred percent Am-,
time I assed Klan groups were dis-' erican." and if they can prevent it,!'whether you received all A's or all D's.
covered in all distric~s of the country, none other.
Men holding high office, both state; What reasons have the Klan for,{ Come down1 and get a
and federal, were n-embers. Crimes classing the Catholic, the Jew, the;
were bwing committed by black ori Negro and the foreign-born un-An--
white masked mobls; law a-nd justice erican? First, "un-American" is a D lco sSe k D n e
disregarded until Congress deemed i term, that we stamp_ on any ma-n or
-wise to investigate.the organization, group of mnen who do things incon-
Wb ha: was revaled .' sistent with our awn viewpoint. in
In tile Congressional .Recordsi, first Islr u atcla iwon sol and once having satisfied your longing f,
cession, sixty-'seventh Congress, one' model American one. Now, just why
.may find printed in -ull,- the Ku Klux is the Klan opposed to the Catholics?reltat-srtutginothsewere
Klan constitution. The following i tzs During the war, as you know, the'
an. excerp-t from ;the Klan Oath 'a,,Young Mlen's Christian Association i
riven ton Congress,. by the Imperial -and, the Knights of Columbus, along
Wizard Simmons. '"With oth~er welfare organizations, did
Section I. Jbe fl('j( I, ----- everything possile to comfort the'
In the pr:sence of God and man.,rmost American. soldiers while they were.
~c.emnly pledge, "prom ice and swear, !fghting in France. Unfortunately theI B esj-m er'
cc n it ai l y , axd w l wi l n l i o n M c s C r si n Ass c a i niconform . to ~all regulations, usages em ployed som e w orkers, w ho w ere not I" L~L ~ '
and reqwirerients'-of the which i possessed of as high characters as "Thie Origna Home of the Steak ,Din
do now exist or which miay be here- they should have had.,. Somewhere,
,afte'r enacted, and will render at all !sonetna early after our arrival in W UO T
times loya-l respect and steadfs,~t sup- 4 Prance, somneone told a soldier that
port to the Imperial authority of same, the Y mhen wer'e "crooked". If you ____________________________
and wll -eartily, heed all offitcial :understand how news of tis kina r -____:___
mandates, decrees, edicts, rulings. and permeates a group of human beings, }-
instructions of the I-W- thereof. i- you- can visualize what happened.
will yield promptly to summons, I Wh Ien the Second Division of the
Having knowledge of samte, providence inerican Army left the Rhine, pra--
alone preventing. i tically every enlisted man was calling
Section IV. I swear' that I will the Young Men's Christian Association1q
keep secure to myself a srecret of af workers all the spiteful and antagon-j
- srnV11 when, same is comxnitted to izi ng names he could sumnmon. Anyj
me.In tlie-sacred oath, treasonf against time any one could not think of Somme!
the United States of America. rape,l ether sulbject onl which to converse,? [SN
and malicious murder alone except- the Y. 11. C. A. workers were schedul-I
ed.ed for a combing and a condemning.-
What are some of the ehar'acteris- This has mnuch to do with the Klan
tics pe culiar to a Klansa'mn? The and thte Catholics. It is just like this,
ndividual who attaches himself to the: the Y. M. C. A. men said that the T o se A. e s
Toaste s~ove
Klan, avers an axtiele? in the New Re-- K. o£ C. men started the propagandaus f
.nubilic, January 17. is "a man of ac- among the soldiers. The Klan main-
Zion, not of thought he is inclined to tams that the act was damnably "un- to students
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LAST POEMJS, by A. E. Housman.
Henry :Holt,
Reviewed by Lisle -Rose
Hiousn an, like eve; y.. true. pcet,
shairnes 'the critics, makes their words+
barren. Expla-Lation of hai, verse is'!
unnecessary.- prisais pres-uniptuouis.a
columnns. (For tho'se who. did :not read'
it.--Irecommend the book, "Cacanor-
i yr's Z omecominig" to every onle, . .
those. who want exciting .plots a
well: as those i'terati -whose eye'sand
noses are always alert for real,'art-.
istry,") Azad now my song for, the lastr
of the abov~e list, Rene Maran.
His boa-k, "Batouala," was written
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