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Sensational Prima Donna
Metropolitan Opera Company
'With the passing of Jacques Ana- fellows from Anjou, Chevreul and
tole-Francois Thibault goes another of Proust.
the bonds that link the present with
the past. Areo hyewa* Writing for one magazine and theni
portant to us to that within the corn-a another, joining as a young p~oet of
pass of his mnd was the remembrance "The Poems of Gold" the Parnassians
of things past-to use Marcel Proust's; around Leconte de Lisle and breaking
c.harming phrase-recollections of the with them, immersing himself in the
Parnassians, Hugo and the Cenacle, study of antiquities, serving as a lib-i
.the Dreyfus Affair, the modes and irarianr in the Library of the Senate,
manners of the last two decades of the' he preserttly achieved a popularity
nineteenth century. Until last week'j that soon I)canvl international with
these recollections and the habits of the Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard. That
mind they occasioned were acting was in 1881.. lie has been a great
upon and commingling with the man for forty years.
Phewnomlena of present society as The death of Joseph Conrad was a
7 . ncd saw it. The man was, I re- loss to art and to art alone. His
pea t, a link with the past-his mind works were written for all time. The
.as a strong tendril binding us to that loss of Anatole France is a blow to
vihI had gone before.j contemporary thought as well. He
Ie was born 16 April 1844, No. 19 was student, dramatist, poet, nove-
t.; Qual Malaquais, in Paris. His' list and ironist.,Ili: Penguin Island1
father was a bookseller and biblilo- and Revolt of the Angels stand be-
61il, author of bibliographies signed side Swift and Voltaire. [his work has
Distressing Dialogues
D)ISTRESSING DIALOGUES. By
Nancy Boyd. With a. preface by Ed-
n" St. Vincent MI1ay. Harper &
Brothers. $2.00.1
It is startling that, having pursued
Art abortively across the painful
reaches of cunt ~porary serious lit-
erature, 'one should come sudenly
upon it in a place where it is unex-
pected and unsought.
Miss Boyd has set out to be witty,
clever, scintillating according to
Hoyle, and outrageous (according to
the blurb.) She has become all these
and into the bargain l4as achieved a
style of presentation comparable to
that of Mr. Joseph Cook. This, we
submit, is nothing short of Art-un-
welcome though the praise may be toj
the author.j
1My acquaintance with lady humorist
is small. It is popularly supposed--
and not without reason, one finds-
the United States.
Certainly it was
he who weaned professional humor
from the unregenerate horseplay of
Mark Twain and Artemus Ward, and
turned it to the more elegant channels
of, say Donald Ogden Stewart. It
was he who gave the present temper
to the age of wit in which Miss Boyd
does not participate. It would be
hard to account for her sense 'for the
delicately ridiculous without taking
into consideration the pioneering of
the prolific Stephen. But this is not
at all to discredit Miss Boyd's art;
rather is it to show that she is the
flower of a new. comedy of-if not
manners, then mannerisms.
While itpis only fair to warn pros-
pective purchasers of Christmas gifts
that all the, pieces in the book have
appeared to a man in Vanity Fair, it
is also 6nly just to their author to,
add that placing them, between cov-
ers has not uncovered any of the
weaknesses frequent in collected
articles. The dialogs are more suc-
cessful than the orthodox prose
pieces. The author has a neat gift
for characterization and the dramatic
turn of iplot. She has also a. delicate
rowdyism and a refined appreciation
It comes once in the' life of every,
professional humorist (if not many,
times) that he is driven to using him-
self for copy. Never, to my know-.
ledge, has this feat of necessity been
accomplished more satisfactorily thanf
in the account of the two purveyorst
of wit, husband and wife, in Two,
Souls With But a Single Thought.
It is one of the chief businessd% of
genius to crystallize in fitting words,
sthe inarticulate sentiments' of ithe
less gifted populace. We hold that
Miss Boyd has done this thing con-
cerning the deep-rooted opinion that
'Children are dlear little things."'
"There are just as many unpleasant,
peevish,. cowardly, self-seeking low-
browed, bullet-headed, shifty-eyed,
frog-chinned; treacherous little liars
in the world today. . . as there will
be unpleasant, peevish, etc., etc., etc.,
Gmiddle-sized liars in the world thirty
years from today. A few. more."
Those are our sentiments exactly.
Jno. Panurge .
THO SE. liking in early translationis
may be interested in a new and limit-
ed edition of William Caxton's Ovyde
(Houghton Mifflin.)
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T'lillsdayEIye1Oct23
~MARIA "JEZITZA, the renownied Viennes:e operatic, colora tura
soprano, st'artled the Amlerican concert tgoiing2; rIA ic two year,; a ,o
when she made her New York dlebut with the Metropolitan Opera
Ccompany. As often as she appears, and her schedule is heavy, tViN
great 111115W howse is pIacked to c aplacity and She is the recipient of a
thunde~rou 3 ovation. 11cer nameinC jd reputation have, spreaql like
miagic andI laymen as well, as music lovers have s~ared no pains in
their efforts to hear andl see this mrveltms woman. The -limited
numbler of concert ongagremients which she is able to accept just
before the opera sea son opens are looked upon as among the season's
most important artistic events.
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', France, libraire." Not only did hisS
^ n inherit his pseudonym but also
fi aste_ for'culture and the past of
liter aure together with a hardiness
a value for the future b~ecause he was attt umr ibuntea stle and la of the improper that salts her work j --
always an artist; lbnt as a satirist maidenly burbtasute n l t wic ought, not to offend. When SbciefrTeMcia al
he had an immediate and social value trn sense of 4imitation serving in- I First read I Like America ns I I -. .-
for his own time. It is this timely stead. To be sure," there is Dorothy thought it a very superior bit of hum- .RIlIlIgII~;I1iIIIIIIiIIII
voice we shall chiefly mis Parker whose agonizingly clev'erI or. I am happy to say that the im- .: , '
verses grace tepages of Life;.and-
Enmile Zola of Ceard's novel: A thr steld oyms ar The Italians are nice, r- u >ef rt-r
dbtLeonard (also author of Mrs. Pep's TIt hyar o s ie stE v
Lovely Day' is a remarkable deu;-Day ie)Btatrte wo u hyaents iea h
at the first attempt Ceard has achiev Day ie)Bt fe hmwo Americans. .I
simlictyThe answer, on reading Dsrsig Te olne aelos ope
ed the last word in that sipiiygDsrsi hynolne aelos ope not d irected to -
wihw, ltrDialogues, Is Nancy Boyd. flsh
whc e i ieary seniors have on Christian flesh.
sought. B h ipetepsto o the past decade it has been felt But they have more than as ufficient,, ~esmls xoiinte w r ssrigE
of fact-s, this becomies one of the most proper to' call the robustious Leacock supply of certain smaller carni-
eloquent exposures of curtain middle- ,of Toronto the foremost humorist of vora.-
class adultories. Ceard has begun==
with a work that will be remembered." '*- -y u th hcp s
THOMAS Beer who wrote, Stephen; JUST TH PLACE EO.AT possible'mealM'
Crane, Sandoval, etc. IHas gone left T ET
hli; home in Yonkers ,to go West to,
see God's Country, and will have a'rI ~ u exi10 O
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