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heb 1creatures of Arthur
Is pages resemble those bo-,
gods who prance 'so grace-
s 'the realins of mythology.
all the.-beauty and spirit-
ity of superior beings par-
a strain of animalism, as
and unaccountable as that
imordial prototypes. They
ygmies struggling with the;
monster, convention. En-
vious to its existence they
ir uncertain way.
Graesler is a reversion to
has a motley, but astonish-
lar gallery of ancestors, be-
ith Sterben in the nineties,
through Die Frau des Weis-
Bertha Garlan, Lieutenant.
the recent and more pre-f
D, r Weg ins Freie (The
iQpei). Casanova's Home-,
Rabelaisian postlude to the:
f that picturesque philan-
a evidently but a temporary
untrue to foim; for Doctor
s atavistic.
strains from Schnitzler's
me cacophonous from over-
a, the mastery of the author
e then d fron unmis-
gns of dotage. There wasl
ien one could emote enthu-
over such officious bunk
guest of the unattainable,"
to freedom," so earnestly
fter W rthe iSchnit lrir
Their kjeynote is "carpe
: they are not so foolish as
>leasure their unique aim-
to cherish material ideals,
Ifty enough to ignore them,
z -with their heads in the
d their feet in the mud. In
waits Death and oblivion,
truggle aimlessly to forget;'
a despairing will to pleas-
Death as a taskmaster.
Graesler lik his forbears.
rlan and Lieutenant Gustil,I
a of axftof _ uideffnmingd
s. ,e tranalf~tslxi' saffe$-
i one woman to another with
aeral emotions. Inthe ~o-
arting pity iishonorab e'
a gross form of patronage.
mentality, . nauseous drug.
endut o'nlyi'e4 i bn agthey
sts; its death means parting
er cost of suffering. Graes-
y marrying a widow whom
ly._ wowsfro- seerlack o
about life, and particularly family I
life, are inserted at well planned in-
tervals, and to the careful reader are
a source of constant pleasure, whether
he agrees with the philosophy or not.
"Mutual disapproval, mutual tolera-
tion; that is family, as, indeed, so
much other life" is the thought which
she gives to the blase daughter who
has been disappointed in love. Many
of the most pointed remarks are well
aimted shots at the modern tendency
to consider ourselves wholly unlike
any preceding generation, and the
satire of these passages is thoroughly
enjoyable.
In speaking of the girl of the attel
eighties and early nineties, the authorf
on the ground that I had committed
them to memorv
"Modern writers are too deeply
concerned with the commercial and
not the literary value of their work,"
says Ellis Parker Butler.
"The tendenicy of those in the liter-
ary profession nowadays is to follow
the style and thought 'of an article
or book that has- particularly won the
support of the 'reading public, but
there is a noticeable lack of individ-
uality, especially in thought.
"Something . different, something
new, always appeals to and even
shocks the public," Mr. Butler states.'
"Moreover, it has never failed that a'
work dominated by the element of,
personal individuality has won the
whole-hearted approval of its readers
and has 'sold'.
Undoubtedly the best part pf the whether to first drive out the Hunor
remarks: "No creature was ever more start the Revolution for liberation
solemn, more earnest, more full of immediately!
good intentions for the world than the At Chateau-Thierry, through an
university educated young female of ironic trick of fate, Jimmie turns the1
the eighties. We shal, not look upon tide of the tattle for the French, al-
her again; she has gone to make place though he is entirely ignorant of that
for her lighter minded daughters, fact, and, being merely a machinist,
surely ,a lesser generation, without does not even know how to handle a
enthusiasm, ardour or aspiration." gun. And through another ironic trick
Shall never, indeed, until her daugh- of fate, and the stupidity of his super-
ters have completed their university for officer, Jimmie Higgins is driven
educations and have gone about con- to harmless insanity by torture in-
vincing men of their equality in every flicted upon him because of his naive
walk of life. desire to foster the spirit of brother-
hood among the nations.
* '.I "Poor, mad Jimmie Higgins will
.Jzmm1Zeii ggin S never again trouble his country;
but Jimmie's friends and partisans,
JIIIIIE HqIGINS. By Upton Sin- who know the story of his experi-
clair. Published by Upton Sinclair.,I ences, cannot be thus lightly dis-
(Reviewed by Dorothy Kamin) .' missed by society. In the industrial
' "Jimmie Higgins" is the story of I troubles which are threatening the
proletarian socialism in America just great democracy of the West, there
before and during the Great War as will appear men and women animat-
lived by Jimmy Higgins. Stunted, Ig- ed by a fierce and blazing bitter-
norant, undernourished, Jimmie, who ness; and the great democracy of
might .be 26 or 32, who was brought the West will marvel at their state
up on a charity farm, who didn't know of mind, unable to conceive what
whether his ancestry was Slavic or can have caused it all. These re-
Bohemian or American, who didn't belious one will be heard quoting
know where he got his) name, who, to the great democracy the words
until he married Elizabeth Hoozar, a of its greatest democrat, spoken in
woman he met in a brothel, never solemn warning during the slaugh-
had a home--Jimmie has the fire of ter and destruction of the civil
the revolutionary idealist in his blop, war
and finds joy of living in the clas "If God will that it continue until
onspiousness, of, the dustrial pr- all'tl ewealth piled by the bond-
'etarj at, andin thet lo l<ocialist lodge 'man's two h'inded and fifty years
-ef Lbes kiille. ' i¢ 'unrequited toil shall be sunk,
Jimmie is not an important perso9 a'na until every drop of blood drawn'
ge i the lodge, but service is J -; Wiith 'the lzsh shall be paid by an-
ontribiftion to the Great Ideal; 1 6there d'awn with the sword, as it
so it is Jimmie who performs all 1e' . was said thi6ee thousand years ago,
u nplasant cand ted us work of t1ie s o stll must it li said, The judg-
socialist cxIrventions by running - ments of the Lord :are true .and
rands and hanging the banners and' righteous altogether.,'
long red streamers, the banner of the "'rlm e Higgins" is pure socalst-
I ar:. arx V Lertttn,:thaeBanner of the Jmi igi'i ue soit- {
KarMarx #e lr~eite nr ft c Pppaganda;. aznd to the comtort-
n aguefLeesvili able, well-fed, " undred per cent"
the banner of the M achiistsr 'Uhon, 1American, It Is anathema One must
Uno ,Dstit 2, ieraktat s upenous events 'iii
Union, Distt 5 and m dag Europe in 1848 the Industrial Revolu-
t ates, and spreads propaganda. irofynpttc
Jimmie is ignorant "with the ign ' . i o tpt ~ ton Sinair's dsie
jance of no schooling, but he is i o1t r lAtn o i'des -.
formed of all th poli al moves .:re tia f the ideals o
the tlles bNis o. fled Socials o4pltely lwve 'by ugly, unimportant
ti~is l~ hisoA~ ed Sciai ttAI jimme iggis.
pler th 'W rker'' He is fiery a3 _te__Jmm ___H__gn___
brave4 and sicere in his convicti"i
that in his, the socialist class, lies OF COURSE T MAY
the power to cure the disease whichN-N
has been eating at the vitals of the NOT H APPEN
world ever since the stronger' 'and
mentally more fit have subjugated the
weaker. Jimmie knew nothing of theN
Industrial Revolution or of the inevit-' f
able force of history which produced
the class-conscious Socialist; but he
did know that the owner of the Em-a
pire Machine Works where he was em-
ployed as a semi-skilled laborer at
19 cents an hour had the power
take his job away from him, and reducej
his family to misery. But Jimmie h-
the soul of the martyr, and the loss
of his job is nothing compared to the"
glorious fact that he had spread the-
Deed Of dissatisfaction among his ~u-
enlightened industrial brethren in the
factor~cy...,,
Thus life flows on for Jimmie until
1914, when'the war comes to Europe. to you,. and then again it may. You
His life is made more purposeful in never can tell, you know. There is
seeing in the struggle the aspirationsI
see~nne nt nlrur te o p 'only one safe procedure"-take out
of international brotherhood among' "oesf rcdrstk u
the workers of Germany, Austria. Rus- - our policy of auto Insurance cover-
sia and Italy. Jimmie is a pacifist ing collisions and damage to prop-
and a conscientious objector, and be-j erty whether your own or the other
lieves that wars are made by capital-
ists to further the interests of in- person's. See us about this,
dustry; but when America enters the
war he is eventually 'drawn into it,
as a machinist, although his loyalty BUTLER
is not to his country, but to his class.
His great dream is still .to liberate INSURANCE o
the workers of the world, and on en-1
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Sensationalism
Hits The College
College life, that mythical existence
to be found in the minds of the Amer-
ican public and Ii cartoons, has al-
ways played a more or less important
part in the ield of Aerican letters,
and of late has taken a decided move
toward the fore. College men, non-
college men, graduates and under-]
graduates have attemipted to write the
great American novel of University
men and women, and have developed
a style which Is becoming trite.
The personnel of colleges has
changed, in the public eye from the
Stover at Yale variety to the aesthetic
and thoughtful type of later works.
The last year has produced many vol-I
umes of modernism, so called, per- I
haps, because it is writing of the pres-
bnt, and deals, with present topics.
With but two possible exceptions, the
works on college life have been so
overdrawn as to afford only amuse-
ment to the average college student. 1
Parties so wild as to be practically
Impossible have been described, and
stress has invariably been laid on the
social side to an overwhelming degree.
Percy Marks, in his recently published
book, "The Plastic Age," has given
one of the truest accounts of uni-
versity life ever written to the read-
ing public. He showed the real atti-
tude of the majority of students to-
ward radical)sm and politica, and
vividly displayed the spirit which per-
vades all membeirs of an educational
group, despite their frequent denials
of the existence of such a thing as
college spirit.
Sensationalism may make a book
a best seller for a 'short time, and
should an overbold book be sup-
pressed, the publisher wishes devout-
ly that he had another edition off the
presses, but it has an effect on the
subject of the plot which is deleter-
ious to an extreme. 'Many people have
the habit of taking "true to life" no-
vels with a grain -of salt, but there
are those who lack that admirable
trait, and who are convinced that the
author is telling nothing but the plain,
unvarnished truth.
The damage which has been done to
middle western universities may not
have become evident as yet, but the
lurid colors In which life gat these
institutions has been painted has made
an impression, upon many, and public
opinion is fast tending to, damn col-
lege life as a drag upon pur national
moral statu3.
'That such material shouild 'be set
before an Vunsuspecting' pUblic 3s i1n
itself a cardinal crime, but that men
and women should sb iialign institu-
tibns of higher learning intentionadly,
knowing as they do that they are
grossly misinterpreting the facts, i> a
disgrace to literature. Many of the
the authors play solely upon the woi t
side of life in under raduate da ,
and'Ffail tter*r' t3a, mize te
things of irth ich take te
l ading parf the n peoyle
want to be t° d abot p pe w o
attend our uivest colleg s
it would be well to tell the the truth
and abandon the practice of commer-
cializing the natural interest which is
arou ed by sensationalism in writing.
Cambridge Has
Four Journals
Undergraduate journalism at Can-
b ridge university finds an outlet un-
der several different heads such as
"The Cambridge Review,", "The Gran-
ta," "The New Cambridge," and the
"Gownsman." Each one of these is
peculiar to itself, with a distinct fla,
vor of its own.
"The Cambridge Review" is known
ap a definitely serious magazine, with
no pretense of humor. Only. things
of the most sedate respectability ap-
pear here and to insure the magazine
of this color, seniors alone are al-
lowed on the staff.
The 'Granta," with a Punch kick on
every page, is the Garg of the Cam-
bridge campus. Embryo humor art-
ists and satirists contribute droller-
ies of all kinde to chase away the blues
from the English college man's life.
Next, one finds "The New Cam-
bridge" which is in a sense a com-
bination of the two above mentioned
parodicals, containing both serious
contributions and humorous matter.
"The Gownsman" completes the list.
It l a campus opinion magazine of
an editorial nature that hits straight
from the shoulder.
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writers, or to spoil her rec-
eempting to make her work
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difficult to reach. "Told By
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d by many, her best, It is5
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abulations of events of the
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cal novel or attempting to~
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tory of the family of a mid-
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