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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1924

THE MICHIGAN DAILY

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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1924

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Magazines Reviewed
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The Dial for January: The fiction 'man. Mr. MDiann considers the latter
of the Dial bears out the theory that a acquisition of first-rate importancet
the cultured wish to read the down- to Germany. "To any one at least,"
trodden, and vice versa. "Bad Han," le states, "who is convinced that there
by Glenway Wescott, the first part of is no more burning intellectual task
which is published in this issue, is for Germany than to realize anew the
a case in point. It is a well conceiv- concept of humanity which had be-
ed story, so written that the reader's come an empty shell, a mere school
interest is maintained by constant phrase-to him this work is a true gift;
fluctuations from the level of action, of God."
yet maintaining that leveleso well that Book reviews for the issue are writ-,
one is particularly conscious afterward ten by Alyse Gregory, Mencken, Fos-
of a long-sustained monotone in style ter Damon, Edmund Wilson, Padriac
and color. So dispassionate is its Colum, and Marianne Moore.
treatment of brawls and death, so un-: The art of this issue will meet with
emotional is its sex obsession, that approval. Aside from the frontis-
what is usually crimson is here an piece,- a reproduction of Matthias
unvarying gray. jGrunewald's "Standing Saint," there
1naye Cavern of Silence," by are three oil and wash drawings by
Spanish writer Miguel de Unamuno, E. E. Cummings (one a portrait of
has the appeal of the mysteriously himself), a bronze by Gaston.Lachaise

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from the American Indian than he The reader will fi
will from the bones of Mas d' Azil breadth of view andin
And it is by no means the least sig- Mackenzie's- study of
nificant thing about Dr. Wilder that in Britain." The book

Reviewed in this

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POPULAR
ANTHROPOLOGY
MAN'S PREHISTORIC PAST
By Harris Hawthorne Wilder
The Macmillan Co.
ANCIENT MAN IN BRITAIN
By Donald A. Mackenzie
Frederick A. Stokes Co.
Had Professor Wilder succumbed to
the recent craze for "Outlines" he

. on a book without first- telling its
scope. The .first chapter, as I have l
intimated, gives a general survey of
the time elements involved in the
study, and the manner in which they
are worked out. This is a field that
I often puzzles the educated layinan;
how do archeologists know that one
race lived before some other, when
they inhabited some quite distinet
portion of the globe? Dr. Wilder ans-
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probably would have titled his book !ess- that should satisfy even such
"The Outline of Pnehistory." But men as Professor Price, who would
this. professor of zoology who is able have dinosaurs, trilobites, and coal-
to male even comparative anatomy in-measure amphibians all romping
teresting has too much individuality about the earth at one time.
to fall under the spell of fads, and IThe chapter on "Materials and
it must be admitted that he has done Methods" is to some extent an slab-
excellently. oration of the one on chronology, and
For "Man's Prehistoric Past" is is by all odds the clearest statement
more than an outline: it is a simple of the archelogic mode of operations
but astonishingly complete elemen- that I know. There is nothing start-
tary treatise. From the first chapter ling and new in it, of cdurse; new
on "The Chronology of Prehistory' things do not often get into elemen-'
to the last, dealing with "Known tary books, since they are very apt
Types of Prehistoric Man," the book! to be out of place. The same ap-
is neither hasty nor unbalanced-both plied to the chapters on prehistory,I

beautiful, the quality of the fairy tale. and three woodcuts by tn in ;
One could wish that the author had artist, Eric Gill.
not attempted to justify his conception Gilbert Seldes, in "The Theatre,"
in a way too often followed. "To- sums up American dramatic critics'
ward midnight," he writes, "I was reactions, including his own, to the
awakened by a loud clap of thunder appearance of Duse on the American
and a violent downpour. And on stage. Paul Rosenfeld, in "Musical
waking I discovered that I knew this Chronicle," is concerned with the first
tale of the secret of the cavern. . . . program of the first season of the
-I lighted the light and began to write League of Composers. The early pub-
it, to write it to dictation. . ." Ilication in the Dial of Anatole France's
Among the critical articles there is "Sou la Rose" is announced editor-
Mary M. Colum's essay on Van Vyck ialy.
Brooks, who received .the Dial award The Double Dealer, published at
this year. Mrs. Colum considers that New Orleans, has as its purpose the
Mr. Brooks' significance, to a con- advancement of Southern letters. It
siderable degree, is indicated by his starts on its fourth year with the well
path-finding toward a national cul- earned approval of critics.
ture in America. "The Perfumed Para- The January number is almost en-
phrase of Death," by W. C. Blum, is tirely devoted to critical writings an
a consideration of the poetry of E. E. poetry. Of the former, the most out-
Cummings. Mr. ,Blum has wisely standing are "Ohio and the Seine,"
chosen to point out for the most part by Lawrence S. Morris, and "The En-
those things with which it is difficult ergetics of Poetry," by the German
to disagree. "With his typographical dramatist, George Kaiser.I
innovations, his extraordinary and in- In "Ohio and the Seine" Mr. Mor
genious appeal to the lust of the eye, ris inveighs against the fallacy that
he once led the fashion, or one of the "end" of American culture is
them," -Mr. Blum states. Not a few, something already established by Eur-
however, are -of the- opinion that this opean. experiments, and points out
"ingenious appeal to the lust of the that America, like every other nation,
eye" is still more an irritation with is faced with the task of creating its
Mr. Cummings for not observing the own specialized mode of feeling--
conventions of typography. Harriet: choosing and emphasizing certain
Monroe recently printed one of Mr. I values and excluding others.
Cummings' poems in her magazine George Kaiser, in "The Energetics
without the small personal pronoun of Poetry" glorifies potential man. He
"i's," and so on, which he affects-an regards man as -the most intensive
effective experiment - Four of Mr. form of energy, that reality which
Cummings' poems are published in! renders all things possible, including
the January Dial. himself, - and whose destiny is abso-
The Dublin and German Letters lute supremacy. - Mr. Kaiser believes
are excellent. In -the former John that man today has misinterpreted
Eglinton states that it is believed, by his veratility in succumbing to spec-
writers who have taken part in Ire- iaization of his po'ers, and that he
land's literary rennaissance, that the may well base his knowledge of po-
reconstitution of Irish mythology has tential man upon the. poetry in the
been the distinctive achievement. of larger sense, since the processes of
the movement. 'Mr. Eglinton mentions poetry most convincingly express
a new Dublin weekly journal, the I"Mali the Synthesis'"
Irish Statesman, edited by "A. M." Robert Graves, the English poet, in
Thomas Mann, in his German Letter, "W e i lsO gic of Stony Stratford, and
is chiefly concerned with a new no- of Poetry," justifies the mode of as-
vel by Jakob Wasserman, "Ulrike- sociative thinking followed by poetry,
Woytich," and with the recently pub- and 4contends that poetry and tradi-
lished German edition of Walt Whit- (Continued on Page Eight)
EGO
(Continued from Page Three)
Now I do not find fault with the idea of the cartoon, thought it was
'any old gag,' nor with Max for aciknowledgng his respect for the power of
Fleet Street, but I do wonder why lie forgot an essay which he. himself
wrote some dozen years ago. It is Some Words on Royalty, and is to be
found in a volume which he has called, More. He says;-
.....Our royal family is a rather absurd institution, no doubt.
But then, humanity itself is rather absurd. A State can never be more'
than a kindergarten, at best, and he who,-ould fain rule men according
to principles of right reason will face no better than did poor dear Plato
at Syracuse. Put the dream of the doctrhnaire into practice, and it will
soon turn to some such nightmare as modern France or modern America.
Indeed, fallacies and anomalies are the bakis of all good government. A
Crown, like a Garter, implies no 'damned merit': 'else were it void of its
impressive magic for most creatures.' StrRttly, there is no reason why we
should worship the House of Hanover more than we worship any other
.famiiy. Strictly there was no reason why, the Children of Israel should'
have bowed down before braza images, But im n i. ot r 9 algJe
spirit of idolatry is strong in hin. And, if you take away his' idol, that
energy which would otherwise be spent in :iotowing.will .probably be
spent in some less harmless manner. In every free pblicjhere is a uwd,
of patriotic emotion which must, somehow, be worked off."'

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traits which we have come to expect
in "Outihnes." Nor are there many!
obvious errors; in fact, for the read-
er who is not a specialist in anthro-
pology to point out a single one would
be difficult. On points of theory, ofy
course, there is no such infallibility;

which cover all of the continents ex-
cept Antarctica, where prehistory is
unknown. Perhaps the most imposing
of them is the one on North and South
America, continents which usually are
slighted in discussions of ancient man.
Writers seem to think that because

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Professor Wilder follows Keith rather I the'Aztecs were by no means so an-
than Osborn, so that the older style cient as the Cro-Magnards they were
of archaeologists will not always far less important and interesting
agree. But then, complete agreement a conclusion that is gravely to be Stele from Iniriquia covered with glyphs (after Mio
is very apt to mean the death of questioned. The significance of a From Wilder's "Man's Prehistoric Past"
theory. - relic does not always depend upon
But perhaps it is unfair to pass its age, and it is quite possible that he considers the needs of the genetic the history of man in Br
judgment-even favorable judgment- the genetic sociologist will learn more sociologist. Ice Age till the Roman
evidence is gleaned fro
sciences which are us
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etc., and the writer ha
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circie of readers than is
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of the book. Of cours
stamp of Mr. Macklen
interest, which happenE
ology, and it readily be
that he is trying,. to mi
us who prefer the geolc
t ly archelogical aspects ,
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merely demonstrates t
a,. 'mythology, philology,
THE PROPER TIOLS archeology together on
...and remarkably relial
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