4 DA -4. . -iters . Cambridge Journalism Beautiful new line c Commercialism In Letters IN REVIEW 'nItzerism ,QB4E LI.- ByArthur er; publised by Thomas $2.75. uea ;by Maxwell jowles)j heb 1creatures of Arthur Is pages resemble those bo-, gods who prance 'so grace- s 'the realins of mythology. all the.-beauty and spirit- ity of superior beings par- a strain of animalism, as and unaccountable as that imordial prototypes. They ygmies struggling with the; monster, convention. En- vious to its existence they ir uncertain way. Graesler is a reversion to has a motley, but astonish- lar gallery of ancestors, be- ith Sterben in the nineties, through Die Frau des Weis- Bertha Garlan, Lieutenant. the recent and more pre-f D, r Weg ins Freie (The iQpei). Casanova's Home-, Rabelaisian postlude to the: f that picturesque philan- a evidently but a temporary untrue to foim; for Doctor s atavistic. strains from Schnitzler's me cacophonous from over- a, the mastery of the author e then d fron unmis- gns of dotage. There wasl ien one could emote enthu- over such officious bunk guest of the unattainable," to freedom," so earnestly fter W rthe iSchnit lrir Their kjeynote is "carpe : they are not so foolish as >leasure their unique aim- to cherish material ideals, Ifty enough to ignore them, z -with their heads in the d their feet in the mud. In waits Death and oblivion, truggle aimlessly to forget;' a despairing will to pleas- Death as a taskmaster. Graesler lik his forbears. rlan and Lieutenant Gustil,I a of axftof _ uideffnmingd s. ,e tranalf~tslxi' saffe$- 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 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. Schlander-& Soy Leather Hand .u u! I'III', M II I!11 ~I , ,a. JEWELERS 304 S. Main St. i Ik I AG ..... . 1 Repot lion You owe it to yourself, ands to your .bank to maintain a good business reputation. To your bank, because you expect it from our other depositors. To yourself because it is the surest foundation cn which to obtain help, should i y©u ever need it. r r you ever iwed it;