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The district of Back Bay, near Bos- come in for a very caustic
ton, is having its own little comedy cause of their conduct in
of censorship. It seems that the mor- And now the police are
als of the readers of Back Bay are innings. They have arrest
guarded by two organizations, the Bay bookseller on the cha
Watch and Ward society and the com- tributing Impromptu, an o1
mittee of Boston Book Sellers. When- improper book. There prob
ever a book is published, representa- be little to the affair were
tives of these bodies pass upon it, if the Book Sellers and the
they approve word goes to the dealers Ward peOple are much nett
that the book may be sold; if they judgment has been questi
frown, even though their frown lacks where will their prestige
legal authority, the offending work police, a mere bunch of un
simply doesn't get a look-in. flat-feet, can disagree an
Idealer for selling a boo
Recently they conferred the seal of Watch-and-Warders havek
sanctity upon Impromptu, a novel by 10. K.? For once the hand
one Elliott Paul. Mr. Paul does not ship is not against the bood
like the society of Back Bay, and author, ut is digging dows
treats it most discourteously. For ex- spectable jeans to pay fow
ample, he describes a raid on a Back fees. Boston achieves indi
Bay house, and his account is so clear spite of itself.
and detailed, so much more like fact
than fiction, that several people seem
mightily offended. Most mightily of all Dodd, Mead & Co., the P
are the police of one Station 16, who view, and Famous Players-]
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poration are offering a rather unusual full. But Henri's ideas have no such
competition to authors who have net scope and vitality,-and his secretary
yet lat a novel published in bock lacks good literary taste. There are
form. The manuscripts will be grad- many fine things in the hodge-podge
ed according to their usefulness as that makes tip the volume, and per-
novels, serials, and stories for the haps those who know and admire Mr.
moving pictures. The winner is as- Henri will take the time to search
sured of $13,500 immediate return, them out. There is, for example, a
with the chance of several additional stratg message for originality snd
thousands in royalties. Such munfi_ force. "You will never get form till
rcence should extract a best seller youi ant it", says Henri; "And want-
. se .. without much trouble, even though it ing to want it is not wanting it . . .
is not apt to restult in the production It will not do to have your fine thought
lashing be- of many pieces of literature . . . yesterday and paint your picture to-
the affair. A new Chicago book store celebrated lay." There are other fine things too,
after their Friday, October 27, by a reception to even though restricted to fields of
ted a Back the Aridland Authors . . . This painting. . . .Perhaps we should be
rge of dis- and other events has led Harry Han- glad that the Messrs. Lippincott have
bscene and sen, critic of the Daily News, to re- published these notes, even though
ably would juice over a very strong drang naci there is an unmerciful number of
it not that Westen among American authors. waste pages in them . . . Original
Watch and . . , Maybe so, but it seems to me voices of any sort are none too com-
led. Their that there is growth rather than move- 0on.
sued. And ment . . . Easter authors are not
be if the coming West, so much as the num- The season has brought forth sev-
iforms and i her of western writers is increasing. eral good books about the ancient
d arrest a , . . New York will be the coon- history 'and evolution of man. One of
that the try's literary capital for many years the smaller of these is entitled The
tronounced to come, unless some fool legislature Coming of Man, written by Dr. John
of censor- wrecks things . . . And then there M. Tyler and published by Marshall
kseller and will come a real migration,. . . Jones at the very possible price of
n into re- $2.00. Those who remember with
r lawyer's pleasure Dr. Tyler's New Stone Age
iduality in Much as L admire Rober Henri's in Northern Europe will find this new
paintings, I cannot get very enthusi- book quite as interesting, though
astic over his new book, The Art Spir- much less detailed. Its scope may be
it. The immense fecundity of Leon- estimated by chapter headings-The
ctorial Re- ardo da Vinci's thought amply justi- Coming of Life, The Rise of Land Life,
Lasky Cor- fled the printing of his notebook in The Coming of Savage Man, The Rise
of Personality, Man and Eviron-
____ment. The style is clear and even
brilliant. Dr. Tyler does not enter
into details, nor burden one with ex-
anples and proofs for his general
statements, yet he slights nothing that
r he treats. For the person who knows
little of man's past, or who wishes to
reyiew hastily th'e things he has
learned, here is the volume he needs.
And is a human being who does not
as siadmit the descent of man can be con-
Sagree. It takes good vertdbThe Coming of Man should do
agre . t a e goo thejo.
wring to stand the strain. In Emergent Evolution (Henry Holt
nterested in our sale this co Professor C. Lloyd Morgan
continuesfrom about the point where
Dr. Tyler stops. Professor Morgan
is a philosophic biologist with a flair
for mysticism and big words. Some
red D resses of the latter are quite showy, and
b r d r ss sby no means in common use. Do you
know what 'projicience' means? And
t Twill In Black Navy elicience'? Dr. Morgan will introduce
~t T ill in Blac , I avy you to both of these handy words, and
om 16 to 44 at the special several others beside. 'Emergent'e
, olution, he says, differs from other
varieties in that it lays stress upon
all things that are new, such as a new
molecule, a new bacterium, or a new
process of thought or action. I can't
see that the distinction amounts to a
great deal, though I admit Dr. Mor-
gan's discussion of it to be masterly.
Like some other evolutionists, he holds
that the doctrine of evolution is thor-
and $35 all the season, and at our oughly naturalistic wthout being
atheistic. The reasons do not con-
ie college woman who seeks style and vince me, any more than the argu-
ments of Haeckel and Vogt have con-
vinced Dr. Morgan. I'm quite willing
for Einstein or Newton or Harkins to
rule in the physical world and phil-
osophic; Dr. Morgan admits them to
the first and politely but firmly closes
the door of the second in their faces.
?cuS and And the manner of the closing de-
msands serious thought from his read-
er, even though agreement may not
follow.
The time line since arrived when
the publication of a new number of
the little blue books in the Haldeman-
wide variety of cloths and in all the Julius Pocket Series became an event
for thousands of readers. Yet the lat-
prices are very reasonable-- est colume, Literary Essays, by Mr.
Haldeman-Julius himself, is more of
an occasion than most. It contains es-
says on Wordsworth, George Eliot,
65 "Sophomoric Ben Hecit", Anderson,
Hawthorne, Saintsbury, Masters, and
Saraha Bernhardt. I sympathize with
Mr. Haldeman-Julius when he char-
acterizes Ben Hecht, even though I
admit to studying up late in the read-
G ing of The Florentine Dagger. Like-
wise, I share with him the view that
Sherwood Anderson made a mess of
I avery fine theme when he wrote
n Street Many Marriages as he did write it.
I The estimate of Masters' Children of
the Market Place as a book which
A T I S F A C T I O N "lifts from the term historical novel
the reproach with A hich puerile rom-
ances have covered it." I do not for
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