SUNDAY, APRIL 30, 1922 THE MICHIGAN DAILY MAGAZINE
"Up Stream-An American Chronicle"
(A Review by G. D. E.) finally refused was directly due to himself in the New York Times. I Jew. Finally he secured a position
Four weeks ago, in the Book Review the sentiment against the Jewish shall not take up the dispute here. I in the Germanics department at Ohio
section of the New York Times, Bran- race. mergly suggest that you read the State University, and for some half
der Matthews, a good, simple old soul, Here is where Brander Matthewsa Matthews article, if you have a stom- dozen years all went well enough.
comes in riding his indignant hobby acth strong enough, and guage the Pr- Then came'the war and Lewisphn's in-
attacked Ludwig Lewisohn's sutibi- horse. Either he was opposed to fessor's asininity for yourself. trepid tongue labelling some of the
ography, "Up Stream" (Boni & Live- sewisohn on the grounds aforesaid, Lcwisohn then tried to secuie a po- imbecilities arising from the hysteria,
right). It is not my intention here to or on those grounds refused to inter- sition in some other college but time Ie was brought to couft eor being a
take away the Professor's false teeth, cede for him. Now, with pains gnaw- after time he was turned down, gen- German and his sensitive spirit was
celluloid cerelrum, glass eyes ,and ting at his conscience, ie tries to clear erally for the reason that hIe was a (Cotinued on Page 7)
crutches, nor the tin cup which the
kind educational department of New
York state keeps filled, for I am too
engrossed in discussing the book..
Sometime later, here or elsewhere, 1
may chew the ears of the doddering
old fellow, but not now. Sutificientto
say for the present, I think, that 4
Matthew's criticism is the only un-
favorable one which I have seen. Even
the weakly sarcastic isoralist, Stuart
F. Sherman, praised the work.
Lewisohns story is that of a child
immigrant being immersed in the swill
barrel of the Republic's culture be-
fore he had come within fifteen
years of the age of reason. He had
good stuff in him, the culture of
the cultured class of Germany,
where he was born, and the
innate kpoetry that is the por-
tion of nearly every pure-blooded Jew,
but he emerged bearing all the out-
ward aspects of a sound and willing
church member, Congressman, adver-
tising man, real estate booster, or Ro-
tary club member.
But the good stuff in him told. The
Melting Pot never got to the core of
the man, and it took only a few heavy ~ -
thumpings by our citizenry of imbe-
ciles to knock off the superficial
coatings which had dried and taken
hold of the epidermis. If they had
but left him alone these coatings
might have become as much a part
of him as the vegetable matter on
the coat of the Hermit crab. They
might have exchanged particles of
material with the very bowels, heart,
liver spleen, autonomic and central-
nervous systenis of the nmas, and turn--
ed him from artist to a voter, buyer
of furniture ot the installment plan,
father of a passel of kids, newspaper" :
poet, or birch wielder at the district
school house.
But the yokelry had at him from the
start, first because of his Jewish
blood, and later because he had come
from Germany, whence, as all good
Americans know, nothing but evil can
come.
Lewisohn's ability with the pen soon
won him the prominency as the first
lad in high school and college in a
southern town, and his delighted atti-
tude over, and enthusiastic aen- ih a ir o m rn s
tures into, the classics of English W ith an A ir of Smarness
made him well liked- by various mem-
bers of the English department. Up
to this 'point all was more or less Smartness lurks in these new sports costumes. There are flannel suits of
Methodismn and had dabbledonverecsd orchid, cannon, and jade with ratine collars and chic bows of black,
tasy with the rites of the Catholic Straight line frocks of knitted material come in beige, orchid and blue
church. Then a fraternity was form-
ed and Lewisoho nwasignored. Con- and have fringed hems. Another style of knitted frock has a full plaited
sequently he became a little bitter, skirt of navy while the blouse is Bramley style in white with navy trim-
but yet so innocent was he that he
could not define the anti-Semitism mings. Prices range from $15.00 up.
back of the snub.
Still, when he went to New York
city to Columbia University in order
to make the Master's degree, he went
with eyes a little wider opened. When
he applied for a position on the teach-
ing staff they were opened wider yet,
and the skepticism that life in a big
city instills into a sensitive person,
prepared him in some small measure
for the disappointments to follow.
Lewlsohn eventually found out that
the reason he was being "stalled" and