FR031 A BEADER OF THE SUNDAY force -such standards 'of verity and
NAgA;ZINE sound principles of criticism as will
Sir: make an end of the reckless disparage-
Rather' broad and sweeping are the ment, cheap self-advertisement, and
assertions made regarding the Sunday "horse-play" which it must be admit-
Magazine..Elmer Sorles Loomis states ted have characterized a number of
that no one, to his knowledge, ever aricles published in the Magazine dur-
reads it. The intelligent students ing the past two years.
don't, the staff members don't, only. E. T. F. '23.
their own work, and the campus -
doesn't. tteoEtITITIONGENERALE"
I must say that the author of these Sir:
statements doesn't know my own or ! With a firmness equal to, and a'
a score of my friends' Sunday habits. sanity (I hope) superior to that dis-
I happen to know a number of stu- played by recent issues of your maga-
dents who are above the average in zine, I should like to present the
grade making. We often discuss the case against you. Your attitude, al-
articles in the Sunday Magazine and though not intolerable, apears to me
some of these same students write for - and, indeed, perhaps most stu-n
it! Imagine it. Write for the maga- dents-quite unjustifiable. Permit me
zine and discuss each others' articles!dts-qite mnj.stial rit me
Suich a situation will be. startling to to indicate more particularly what I
ar. Loomis. A last year's student who refer to, and, in conclusion, to suggest
specialized in literature, contributed a policy the pursuance of which may
to. this magazine occasionally end bring a greater degree of success to
graduated with Phi Beta Kappa hon- you and a greater measure of satis-
ors, once said to me that the main rear faction to your readers.
son for her subscribing for the Michi- Chief among the articles to which.
gan Daily for the ensuing year was to I, as well as every other thoughtful
obtain the Sunday Magazine. Mr. yet conservative student, would take
Loomis must foster an opinion that exception, is Elmer Sorles Loomis'
decadence reigns on the campus to disgraceful diatribe against the best
say that only a half dozen can appre- of our campus publications; a dia-
ciate it. Not only is he doing an in- tribe coupled with the most absurd'
justice to the students but to the peo- and, if I may say so, fawning eulogy
pile of the town and alumni as well. of our so-called humorous magazine.
lie suffers from a tendency to gener- I should like to see in this article
alize from the results of his own nar- an attempt, however pitiful, at humor;
rowV observatigns. a tephwvrptfl thmr
I am married, have my sewing and but I fear that the misguided callowi
house duties to perform and a baby youth who composed it is in deadly
to care for.One can see that I haven't earnest.. Unfortunately, it is at once
the time to read all the good books evident that he possesses neither thel
that Mr. Loomis says our intelligent experience nor the ability necessary
students do. I read on an average to one who would solemnly and con-
one book of fiction a week. I do like structively discuss Literature. Of the
to know something about the innum- true function of criticism he has no
erable works that I have no time for conception: he is but a child want
and there have been somc excellent only destroying what he does notj
reviews in your magazine. Even when comprehend. -
one has read the original productions, For assuredly it is evident that he
it is interesting and educating to see does not understand the authentic.!
how your own opinion compare withialms of any of our magazines-ex-
others. The personal interview reports fept, of course, Gargoyle. I should
are filled with that university atmos- nep ctof erson Gargo ishoul
phere which is so necessary if we are not expect a person of Loomis' o-
to maintain the peculiar benefit of viously crude taste to perceive the
college upon college writers. The praiseworthy spirit animating Whim-!
articles on music tend to arouse our sies. Naturally enough, not all of
interest and appreciation of that art Whimsies' contributions deserve un-
and the sketches of the many artists qualified praise; yet I would defy
who visit Ann Arbor acquaint us with Loomis to produce, or even to dis-
-facts of their lives which make us feel cover, truer poetry than most of the
nearer to them. lyrics published in Whimsies since
On the whole, I truly appreciate its inception. Loomis, if I do nots
your magazine, derive intellectual misinterpret him, objects to personal
benefit from it, gladly give it my time poetry; yet what is Art ut Person-
every Sunday morning and hope that ality? The disgustingly - adolescent
the good work will continue. But let "slams" at the loyal and hard-work-j
us hear less of Mr. Loomis. A.-.I"-.ing editorial staff of Whimsies deserve
G.A.K."2h t ,
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tiating servants bow them into the best ; drags a repentent wife. to the spot
suite. After dinner the Gentleman where Bertram, suddenly stricken with
from .San' Francisco sits behind his fever, recovers for a happy ending.
newspaper in the reading room "when The first half of the book is good a'
suddenly the lines blazed up 'before an English novel-the last half is full
him his neck swelled, his eyes of virulent and colorful writing. If
bulged and the pince-nez came flying only Sir Philip. would turn Gulliver
and modesty aside and relate his tra- j
off his nose . . . wanted to breathe vels in the first person?!
and rattled wildly. His lower jawFEMININE SUPREME
dropped and his mouth shone with SACREMC
gold fillings." SACRIFICE
Later, lying cold on his cot in a ANNE SEVERN AND THE FIELD.
back room the servants are mocking- I GS, by May Sinclaii. Mac1illan.
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The first taste---
of a
ly ingratiating to his corpse; the pro-
peor s anxious to get the family
out as sown as possible. Back they
go on the same ship that brought them
over, the brass band still plays rag-
time, powdered shoulders and dia-
monds are still moving in the ship's
ball room while deep in the hold is the
Gentleman from San Francisco secure
in a. tar-covered coffin. The hired
lovers continue their masque to create
"atmosphere" for the passengers.
The other stories are markedly less
startling,' less significant than the
first.
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Reviewed by Robert Mansfield
To all of thosa good people who
have been chronic recipients of mis-
fortune or those who have suffered
from mnalassimilation of the few good
things which sprout unexpectedly in
our acres of sterility, I recommend
May Sinclair's book, "Anno Severn
and The Fieldings."
The plot is this: Anne lives with
the Fielding family as a child, a girl
and as a grown woman. The family,
which is one of those amusingly well
regulated organizations, awakens one
day during the War to find itself coi-
pletely out of gear with its established
pace.
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The story of an adolescent Russian
schoolgirl who was too beautiful; of
a wreck, stopping before people in
the railroad station asking "For God's
sake . . . only a few kopek" too
will-less to carry out his plan of
committing suicide after he was an
nninvited guest at the wedding of his
daughter: of a woman who wanted her
lover to be her son. All these, with
the possible exception of the last are
exceedingly well done. The young girl,
in the second story writes in her
diary as naively as she should write;
the man in the third is exactly the
kind of vacillating derilect of a Polish
gentleman that should lie there.
One thing that is worth marking:
it seemed to me the author's style
changes. imperceptibly to suit itself
to each story; it may be the effect
of. his unusual ability to create in
the reader a sense elf change by
obliterating himself and letting the
chracters and the background tell
the thing; his people do not speak
alike which is, I think, quite uncom-
mon stop. They are, with a very few
strokes o) the pen,, separate individuals
in each story and do not bear the usual
thumb marks-of the sameci eator. I
was surprised at the lyrica± quality
of M. Bunin's writing; it is ex-reme-
ly simple without being either jerky,
or bleak.
BERTRAM BEWILDERED
THE 3IH)J)LE OF THE ROAD, a no-
vel, Sir Philip Gibbs. George i.
loran Company, New York. .$.O%'
Reviewed by Dorothy Sanders
"Most men walked on one side or
the other, on their own side of life's
hedge. He tried to keep to the middle
of the road, and both sides flung stones
at him." Bertram Pollard, the hero of
Sir Philip Gibbs' novel, "The Middle
of the Road," walks between the con-
troversies, political, social, moral, that
confront him: England and Ireland,
Anne loves Jerrold. one of the three
boys, all of whom in turn, and in uni-
son love her, here and there, tprough-
out the story. But it is Jerrold whom
Anne desires. He marries when he -
is convinced by his mother that Anne
is the lover of his invalid brother Col-
in. - Later he discovers his error and
his wife becoming invalidue, he and
Anne surrender themselves to three
months of secret happiness. The fer-
vent trust of the wife in her husband
finally demoralizes the love of Anne
and Jerrold and leads to three chap-
ters of the most excruciating mental
suffering that I have ever seen de-
scribed. Jerrold is finally released by
his wife in the last nerve-racking
pages of the book.
May Sinclair has attempted to build
a navel upon a foundation of sacrifi-
cial suffering. The last three chap-
ters are especially slow and painful
and repetitive. I was disgusted with
her abominably persistent worship-
ping of her female characters. The
sex loyalty with which miost women
writers blindly, even', superstitiously
clothe their work, was never more in
evidence than in "Anne Severn and
The Fieldings." Women writers en-
deavor to justify the every act of wom-
en by elevating them to a moral plane
absurdly lofty, a plane completely out
of all naturalness.
I enjoyed the dialogue, which is
'plentiful, and the rapid progress of
the story, with the exception of the last
chapters. The work was done care-
fully, the dialogue .specially bearing
proof of the writer's ability in the
construction of conversation, but it is
a book for sex-sympathizing iwomen-
certainly not for men.
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only contempt. In fact, all of Ioomis'
article, but for its pernicious tend- .
ency, would be worthy only of scorn:
he gives himself away in the cheap I
When a friend of mine recently re- 1pi inst uni aain the
ferred scathingly to an article printed Gargoyleishly-humorous conclusion to1
in the Sunday Magazine, I mildly took the WhiniAes article. The Sunday
him to task for his severe pessimism. 1 Magazine should be ashamed of itself
However, when I read a moderate sfor making public an article so un-
fraction of the "Review of Campus just, so cheap, so juvenile.
Publications" in last Sunday's issue,:' Yet there have appeared in your
I appreciated fully the fitness of the pages';at- least four .compositions-or
term my friend had used. efforts, I prefer to call them--worse
I have no wish to speak of the merits than Loomis', becaiuse more insidious.!
or demerits of particular statements'Lockwood's "Individuality of Negro
in the aricle mentioned, for no one Music," t first sight an interesting
reading it could give serious weight .
to what was said, in so evident a spirit and informative article, is seen on
of insincerity, not to say ribaldry. It closer examination to resolve itself
is the spirit and character of the ar- into a subtle attack on modern Civil-
title as a whole, discrediting its par- ization. Some of Bartron's stuff, in-
ticular statements, which impel me to deed, is an open assault on all that
write you and express the sentiments the noble and laborious efforts of the!
it aroused. Past have garnered for us; a rejection
As a reader who has always held not merely'of the material benefits, but
the Daily and the Sunday Magazine also of the ideals, of Civilization; a!
in esteem, I felt keen regret upon deliberate defense of the debased and
reading the article in question. I be- the immoral. These tendencies ap-
lieve the editors are sincere in their pear, more subtly manifested still, but,
efforts to turn out a creditable sheet, indu'bitably present, in an article by
a.d therefore I cannot help feeling Lisle Rose, which was entitled (with
that they were imposed upon by the artistic cunning, I must admit) Con-
writers of the so-called review. I ant servation Rampant. In this article,
sure the readers have been imposed sera Rp{a th srtie,
upon.under the guise of a Conservative, the
But it is not enough to recognizeaosOphic anarchism. His creed i; noth-
this fact and 'let it go at that. The ospi nrhs. Hi cre is no
readers of the'Daily have a right to ing less than this: that everythimg s
exp-ect that is possibilities for service man-made, subject to shift; so it is in
shall be fairly realized; It would sur- Art; I shall prefer the work of the
prise me if you did not receivemany Past only because it seems to me
protests less temperate than mine, better than the poetry of the future.
upon the article in question, and if If this be not, by implication, a denial.
this expectation is not amiss, I hope of all that Christianity and Art have
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capital and labor, aristocracy and the
people, loyalty to his wife and the love
of several fine women . . . so on, al-
ways struggling, always torn betweens
the opposing issues, until finally he
secures surcease not in any solutiona
of his problems but in the comforting,
reality of a bed in a good hospital. 1
In those pages where Sir Philip for-
gets he is a novelist and. gives full-
swing to his journalistic genius, the'
book glows with his sincerity. The.
very qualities which made him un-
questionably preeminent as a corres-t
pondent in the late war have been bentt
to giving in this novel a clear impres-I
sion of the post-war Europe of 1920-'
21. Gibbs is a writer with a personali-'
ty, sincere and sympathetic. He uses'
clear and limpid English.
So long as the author kept his hero
in England the story fared all right-
but the moment Bertram landed in
the continent' some restraint was lost.
In France,,inistaken -public opinion,
deliberately led into its misconce-p-
tions by the press, along with the so-
ber anticipation o another war, awoke
apparently Sir I hilip'sa jcurnalistice
,ire. From there the st'ory 'swe.ps .rori'
an indignant pen, througlr Germany
into famine stricken Russia. Thenog-
vel becomes a personally conductd
tour: Moscow, Petrograd, up the Vol-
ADVENTURES ABOARD
SHIP
THE GROUND SWELL, by Alfred ll.
Stanford, D. D. Appleton & Co.
Reviewed by John P. Dawson
A thoroughly commonplace sea-
story, authentic in atmosphere but
hopelessly juvenile in treatment such
as this episode of the trans-Atlantic
trade, does no more than to send us
hurriedly back to Conrad and make us
pray that his successors be perma-
nently and unequivocally suppressed.'
The book is not distressing. In fact
there are times when the reality of
the author's experiences thrust
through his untrained style, giving it
life and vigor.
The writing of the book is of itself
not nearly as bad as it might be. It
lacks mostly in discipline, but Stan-
ford's vocabulary is quite adequate for
his simple subject and his sentence
structure, particularly in descriptive'
passages, is often well planned
Mr. Stanford, the author, is quite
sincere a large part of the time. His
sailor-like meditations have the im-
maturez-ring that betrays the com-
mon man, but what matter if only
they-are his own? The sole objection
-rat then- rinains is that we don't
read boo.k for their. mediocrity. And
if the#author were altogether guilt-
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