SUNDAY, MAY 14, 1922 THE MICHIGAN DAILY MAGAZINE 7
nervous instability of both. In Paris had to be taken along, and Mr. Bishop Knopf is publishing two new animal Scribner's is publishing a collet,
he falls in love with a shallow, in- set out on his trip to Europe with no stories by a Danish naturalist, Svend tion of sixteen one-act plays by B.
sincere, extravagant, altogether more official baggage than a light Fleuron. "Kittens, A Family Chron-
worthless woman. The victim of an brief case. tie says that the posses- icle," is translated by David Pritch- Roland Lewis, entitled "One-Act
hereditary lack of balance and sense sion of these convenient lists enabled ard, and "Grim, the Story of a Pike," Playfor High Schools." In it are in-
of proportion, he allows this woman him to secure several hundred vol- is translated by J. Muir and J. Alex- cluded plays by such modern writers
to consume his whole life. Her pres- umes which he would not have been lander. The stories are said to let the as Sir James Barre, George Middle-
ence keeps him from writing his nov- able to purchase otherwise. He car- reader into the psychology of the ani- ton, Althea Thurston, Percy Mackaye,
els. Ie is driven to desperate and un- ried his list with him wherever he mals, without their actually stepping Eugene Pillot, Anton Tchekov, Bos-
scrupulous methods of securing went, and it took only a moment to out of character, and are not merely worth Crocker, Paul Hervieu, David
money to satisfy her whims. When consult his book on the spot, no mat- children's books. Pinski, and others.
she has exhausted his funds she turns ter where he was. The time and labor
to other lovers; and Jean, finding his ordinarily required to obtain the sets 1
mistress unfaithful, is virtually was greatly reduced, and many mis-
driven insane by the agony of wild takes were avoided.
passion and jealousy. His vision, his
imagination, his every thought is dis-
torted by a mad eroticism. The days I PORTRAT OF JOSEPH HEJ{GES-
and nights become nightmares of rav- HEIER
ings and mental tortures. An intimate picture of Joseph
So his existence continues until he Hergesheimer, author of "Cytherea,
is finally brought to realize the folly (Knopf), is given in the article by an
and hopelessness of trying to attain anonymous writer in the May Book-
the love of such a woman. He de- man. Hergesheimer's early struggles
termines to force Juliette out of his are thus described:
mind, and the book closes with him at "Hergesheimer inherited a bit of
last free but with a vision not yet money and a weak constitution. As
back in focus. a toy he was a bookworm, sby and -
Like Zola again, Mirbeau admits to reserved. When money fell into his -
a moral purpose. The unfortunate hands he forthwith got married and
Jean is held up as a kind of "horrible" lived in Florence. There he suffered
example." But, overlooking this a nervous breakdovn and was oursed
moral purpose and granting the auth- back to health by Dorothy after
or's premises-the neurotic hero, the months of care and anxiety. He
Latin temperament, the Parisian wrote for fourteen years, urged on by; \n e f
s--one finds a novel written ith a dogged belief in himself, without
a heat, a power, and a vigor that ele- having a single manuscript accepted.'
vate it far above the ordinary, le and Dorothy bore the pinch of ad-
versity and the rebuffs of editors with N ew Guimpes
PHOTOSTAT HELPS LIlRiARIai fortitude, and the final triumph was
therefore all the sweeter. In thoseT
(Continued from Page 1) years of apprentice work, his masters o wea wit suit
It has always been a hard problem were Conrad, Henry James, Meredith
-that of finding a way to carry con- and Flaubert." The style for late spring and early summer decrees
veniently a card catalogue system of In contrast to this his present mnde t
important proportions of a great li- that our spring suit or sports sweater be accom-
brary Cardoard is very heavy, sof life
that if a man tries to take alony the "One of his favorite expressions in panied by a fresh, new guimpe. These guimpes are
thaeec is utel chaman, ande totat-g h
cards themselves, he will likely be sfecch is 'utterly charming,' and iut- fnished with real filet edging and inserts to match.
obliged to transport a ton or two of terly charming describes his home in
paper. One person once had a special West Chester. It is an ancient house Irish crocheting and val lace have also been used on
wooden franse of drawers con.structed built of boulder stones, with huge fire--
to hold his cards. It took a taxicab places and heavy, seasoned timbers. guimpes and smart bows of black picot ribbon add
to take it to and from the railroad It sits away from the road on a a smart touch. Priced from $1.50 to $4.75.
stations where he stopped, and he rounded knoll, a little sombre and
would often have to run back and commanding. Airedales disport them-
forth from the book-sellers to his selves on the lawn. Two cars, one
hotel room to consult the catalogue Joe's and the other Dorothy's, are in
over a doubtful volume. tho ample barn, now equipped as a
it Hr. ithop had ot intnton of garage. Servants perfectly trained;
furiishings a continual surprise and
undergoing any such difficulties. He delight, inevitably placed; and plenty
thought long and hard, and he worked i hst witer, a rarity i' country (
and worried, until lie finally evolved himes. Over this demesne rules Dor-
an entirely new and unusually satis- otuy, trank, cordial, unaffertud, whole-
factory method. He had been ex- soe, prctiy, and hovable.
perimenting with the photostat, a de-
vice which in phiotgraphiug written 0 n hsIresting account is given of
sag s, can be madele to rediuce the size how ergesheimer writes:
of the writing as much as one-half, "With such a home one would think
and still retain its legibility. He that Hergesheimer would do all his
found that large handwriting, in writing there, isolated and quiet,
black ink, is much clearer in the among familiar surroundings. In-
photohastic copies than is typewriting stead he rents a small office opposite
or printing. In fact, others have the court house in West Chester and
tried to do much the same thing with arrives there at nine o'clock in the f
typewritten lists, but the results have morning, like a business man. He
been very unsatisfactory. According- has steel filing cabinets in which he
ly, be had many of his cards rewrit- keeps his notes, his correspondence, Charm f vew
ten in this manner, and then he ar- and the manuscripts of everything he
ranged them, alphabetically, on a flat writes. He uses a stub pen and writes Neckwear
surface. By overlapping the cards, the first draft carefully in a grade-
the more than one-half blank space school composition book. Then his
which is usually found on them was secretary makes a triple-spaced copy The very newest collar and cuff sets are of dainty
on the typewriter. He goes through
covered, sl ho was able t get as it carefully, making innumerable Swiss brder in Bramley Style. The Very fn-
many as thirty-five cards into a space
which would firm a page about 7/ changes and corrections. She copies est material has been used and they have been em-
by 1 inches when the photostatic it again, and again he makes correc- maerial
copy was made. A very thin but firm lions. The third draft and even the broidered i open designs. Priced from 59c to
grade of paper was used for maling printer's proof are not free from his $1.75 each.
the prints, and when the whole book rearrangement of words."
was completed, it was not more than
a half an inch thick. The pages were "Types of the Essay" (Scribner's) Hand-made collar and cuf sets of marquisette ore
bound in the library bindery, and the by Benjamin A. Heydrick, head of the
result was a neat red-covered book, English department, High School of attractive for wear with sweaters. Some are trim-
compact and handy, and just about Commerce, New York City, is a se-
the size of a- piece of typewriter lection of representative British and med with real flet lace an others ave crochete
paper. American essays, arranged to illus- medallions at the corners. Priced $1.75 each.
Two or three similar books were trate the types which have developed
made, containing other lists which in this form of prose.