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THE TEMPTRESS, by V. Blasco Ib to do it. This "Horation Ode" can be appreciated only by the connoisseurs of
anez. E. P. Dutton & Co., $2.00. street car advertisements and it is for them that I here reprint it.
The sketches, while to some extent H. L. Mencken, in his "The American Language" accredits Dr. Brander
This is the story o a woman, her critical, are in the main informative. Matthews for having first published it; the authorship, however, is un-
conquests, 'and her killings. Elena, Mr. Adcock has catholic tastes incBitised
Marqisede TrreBiaca mst avewriters, and an attitude so tolerant
lbs attention of every man she meets; that one suspects he has at one time
from attention she leads them into in- been employed as a reviewer of pop- 1848
fatuation, and from infatuation into ular drama or movies. le become en- To be a useful man has always seemed to me to be a hideous thing.
disaster. In our first meeting with thusiastic over Hardy-and also over 1848 was amusing only because everyone was building Utopias like
her she is ridiculing her husband be- Noyes, Kipling, and A. S. M. Hutchin- castles in Spain.
cause he is afraid to let her go more son, whose principal claim to great- 1848 was charming only by the very excess of the ridiculous.
deeply in debt, Why should he wor-, ness is that he "never has written a Robespierre is estimable only because he has made some fine phrases.
.ry? IM& is a director, at a high salary, book 'that Is painfully bad Mr. Ad- . -From "Intimate Papers" of Charles Henri Baudelare,
-na s'promoting schemegheaded b the oe* admires-Belloe, Rennet, atd. Wal-
banker Foutenoy-another-pL ll-a s 'ter De La Mar; but he alan- gives EGOISM
captives;. But thecomliay; coiqWaps 'irase -i t; -PhIMIM Qppenheim. and
aettlvesltterotna ncf* c e sjTare H a nWells Piserhaps this well- in Egoism, in the new psychological sense of the word, may be .regarded
I 1 -1e'Bt'-j Wells, Pehasl w ell ml as the delberate attempt in an ind idual'a .life to throy tfiec:lsie interest
I - ba fo and emphasis'af bi8 days upon the inward,-personal sbjectve imressions
CP5--anishm5tle'EOen rX.Pa .-refiera are fewlettsd . ire reader produced by the world, rather than upon.outward action or upon social
'na ums tomsspas'i sthasoldoeew .Bl-nazy-eer cae hiafudgment in accord- pIgress. Egoism does not necessarily imply. the inidious stigma of
-bleso, wh i in sgerosf a,.gwatnfr ane-wit kia likinga fT devotee o seldahness. .
rigaion prlact, ITobled lwhx ot=s Gerge Brandes will readsand 'smILe - ",Egoism does not necessarily imply egotism. ,.
fool demadhat 2lebar, be-sotu ,tolerantty7 the atidm er- of Huttriston "Egoism is an intellectual gesture, a spiritual attitude, a temperamental
Paris,. -Ne'lter-eslle nor' Biansca .wilt} 'read and be pleased, 'And both atmosphere. It is a thing that implies a certain deinit philosophical ciood
;hear, to that,-: s 'the temptrast:.goes wil'get the inormatfon- which they in regard to the riddle of existence; , .. "
to a new laud, are seeking. From "Suspended Judgments" by John Cowper Powys.
Her arrival In the trantier townat
once causes as uproar - Engineers ACANTHUS
and: contractorsat once seek her-fa JOHN DRINKWATER y "Are not the dead sons and -daughters of Nioe here made .use of as
-vor. There are bals aid dinners in, ( OUTLINES LITERA- ornaments? This Is the highest luxury of at; she adois o loiger with
full dress; with fowes aand rerfme' TUREfo wers _andfruits but with theore'of-men. .
brought from distant coast-cIties. The U ' tfFrom "The Coll -tor arid his Friends" by Doethe,
whole cmmnnity lecomeacoeerned TUE OUJLIN f ITERA'IUE , ___
In the affair there is a duel. between -ested by John Drjnkwaier. Vol. 1,
two rivals- for Elena's love, an en- . G#P. Ptam's Sons.
gagement' is broken, the engineer and-
his partner quarrel, and fTrreBianoa This is, the first of. a. three-volume
comnita auloi- Ee'as elopes,*ith, "etthat is designed to do a-s litera- D A INTY-G
Moreno, a clerk . wk-ao -execatdr .of tore what the "Outine-ot $s*ee" did
the estate belosgiog to the niaa who for soenlce. Whether r not it will Your PhotQgraph
was-killedain the -duel overher af- depends largely on l)&- Drinwate,
fetonus - She disappear. . and whether or notone expects It'to BY
depends, likewise, on- one's oplnlop of
There caw ( other ginpses of} Mr. Drinkwater. - it not hard to ad
1oledo~, twelve years later,. a ParIsimit that in this volume he has made'a j -
uillonare.:of the estranged ,omple g.oostart -
happily married. .of tlea, broken ' In' the -fitst place, discrganization
down and dawdy, hanging about .a which is the glaring defet Of theL T-" -
cheap. saloon. . ene 'Outline', iot'inlsviace. Is--
deed, Mr- Drinkwater- almnost pro- ,
The book does not lack tragedy. In- claims unit- as-his mottewbee, tr the THE LINE ARTISTIC
deed, the superabundance of it is the Introduction he states, "A greatart-_
st once said that for him at the heart
tale's chief defect. The author rush- idd a was at te hertDon't put of your-appointment for your
es from one crisia to. another, never of the religious idea was a sense of
continuity, that, - indeed, this sense Michiganennias picture
stopping to delineate a. character or=
elaborate a situation. We are, told amounted to religion. . . . And
that Elena is beautiful, elusive,.cam-this Is the answer to anyone who may
pelling, hut never sre we shown that question the use of such a thing as a
she is so. The other characters-Ro- history of literature, as apart from
bledo, Bianca, Fontenoy, and the eni- the direct study of literature itself." I
peers and contractors-are only This proclamation and promise Is re-
sketches. Blasco Ibanez has written assuring. We can be tolerably cer-
hurriedly, in aweeping outlines, with tain that we shall not have to search
no attempt to fill in. And the last two through three books for the history of
chapters are not even good. Watson Greek literature, and are glad for that PHONE 598 121 E. WASHINGTON
'certainty.
happily married; Robledo wealthy, r
coming upon Elena by accident, and
finding her so degraded that the kind- However, it is unfair to liken this
est thing he can do is provide er with book to another less good, even if
drink that will give forgetfulness. This only to point out its superiorities.
is moralizing that would please Mr. Rather, one should outline the con-
Sumner and Justice Ford-the worn- tents of the volume in hand, telling Developing and Printing
out preaching of second grade read- why he likes it or why he does not,
ers and Bible cards. One expects and offering suggestions or comments
something better from the mind that where he can. Yet this is rather dif- for the Amateur
produced "The Four Horsemen." ficult; I like the whole thing too well.
From "The First Book" to "The Re-
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MORE Greek literature as well. Dr. Barnes
contributes a chapter on the "Story of
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Mr. Adcock is a tolerant and cordial cellent. one on the Middle Ages. Mr.
critic; Mr. Hoppe a photograper who Drinkwater possesses few illusions
Is also an artist. For each novelist j regarding that time, and is not great-
or poet of whom the former write ally impressed by the conservation arg-
sketch, the latter contributes a: pie- ument of the churchmen. Perhaps
tore. The result is a large amount of the Dark Age monks did conserve
inforisation about=a large number of what was old, but they also made cer-
English writers, and -one American, (Continued. ,n Page Seven)