terms." An earnest appeal for tolerance in regard to seemingly
perversive forms. The book has a wealth of material and numerous
quotations from Picasso, Picabia, Cézanne, Matisse, and others,
considerably more interesting and instructive than Mr. Eddy's own
truisms. Although the author repeatedly resents any accusation in his
adherence to Cubism, the reader gets the impression that the Cubistic
movement has received a more thorough and fair treatment than the other
new schools. Of the sixty-nine reproductions of Post-Impressionistic
paintings and sculpture, only five represent the Futurists. Idillon
Redon, who gave us the greater delight in last year's International
Exhibition, is totally ignored. Among the Self-Portraits that of Matisse
is sorely missed--a work that helps greatly in understanding the quaint
painter of the Woman in Red Madras. Whether Mr. Eddy will succeed in
convincing the prejudiced conservatives is doubtful; but in those who
have appreciated the daring attempts of the new schools his book will
arouse a renewed longing for the foreign "savages" and an ardent hope
for their further invasions in our "sane and healthful" galleries.
THE SAME BOOK FROM ANOTHER STANDPOINT
(With apologies to the author of _Tender Buttons_)
_Oil and Water_
Enough water is plenty and more, more is almost plenty enough.
Enthusiastically hurting sad size, such size, same size slighter, same
splendor simpler, same sore sounder. Glazed glitter, eddy eddies
discover discovered discoveries, discover Mediterranean sea, large print
large. Small print small, picked plumes painters and penmen, pretty
pieces Picasso, Picabia plus Plato, Hegel, Cézanne, Kandinsky, more
plenty more, small print single sign of oil supposing shattering scatter
and scattering certainly splendidly. Suppose oil surrounded with watery
sauce, suppose spare solely inside, suppose the rest.
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SENTENCE REVIEWS
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_The Return of the Prodigal_, by May Sinclair. [The Macmillan Company,
New York.] Eight short stories, all subtly done. _The Cosmopolitan_
proves beyond a doubt that women, or at least the thousandth woman, is
capable of a disinterested love of life and of nature. It is a big story
and a very finished one.
_John Addington Symonds_, by Van Wyck Brooks. [Mitchell Kennerley, New
York.] A biography of rare charm and distinction in which Mr. Brooks
builds a clear picture of Symonds's life as it is related to our day.
_The Sister of the Wind_, and _Other Poems_, by Grace Fallow Norton.
[Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston.] Some of this will disappoint lovers
of _Little Gray Songs From St. Joseph's_--in fact, none of the poems
here has such extraordinary poignancy. But there are many that are worth
knowing.
_The Continental Drama of Today_, by Barrett H. Clark. [Henry Holt and
Company, New York.] Invaluable to the student of continental drama. A
half dozen pages of critical analysis devoted to each of thirty modern
playwrights.
_Stories and Poems and Other Uncollected Writing_, by Bret Harte,
compiled by Charles Meeker Kozlay, with an introductory account of
Harte's early contributions to the California press. [Houghton Mifflin
Company, Boston.] A very beautiful Riverside Press volume with
photogravures.
_I Should Say So_, by James Montgomery Flagg. [George H. Doran Company,
New York.] Yes, he is silly; but Mr. Flagg is so nicely naughty and so
naughtily human that you simply must laugh.
_Broken Music_, by Phyllis Bottome. [Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston.]
Charming and well done. The story of a young French boy's struggle to
create music, and his success after the tradition of a "broken heart"
had been fulfilled.
_The Old Game_, by Samuel G. Blythe. [George H. Doran Company, New
York.] A temperance tract by a man who knows; minus sanctimoniousness
and plus a punch.
_Dramatic Portaits_, by P. P. Howe. [Mitchell Kennerley, New York.] One
man's opinion of the modern dramatists. A "shelf book" for occasional
reference.
_Billy and Hans_, by W. J. Stillman. [Thomas B. Mosher, Portland,
Maine.] A charming story of the most temperamental of pets, the
squirrel. A Mosher book bound in a cover dark enough to stand wear. A
distinct relief from the Alice blue and pale old rose of Mr. Mosher's
more delicate periods.
_Billy_, by Maud Thornhill Porter. [Thomas B. Mosher, Portland, Maine.]
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Bright, human, and personal.
_The Social Significance of the Modern Drama_, by Emma Goldman. [Richard
G. Badger, Boston.] Miss Goldman discusses Ibsen, Strindberg, Sudermann,
Hauptmann, Wedekind, Maeterlinck, Rostand, Brieux, Shaw, Galsworthy,
Stanley Houghton, Githa Sowerby, Yeats, Lenox Robinson, T. G. Murray,
Tolstoy, Tchekhof, Gorki, and Andreyev, outlining the plays of each and
emphasizing their relation to the problem of modern society. She is the
interpreter here rather than the propagandist, and her interpretations
are not academic discourses. They give you the plays partly by
quotation, partly in crisp narrative, and they are not the kind of
interpretations that make the authors wish they had never written plays.
Whether you like Emma Goldman or not, you will get a more compact and
comprehensive working-knowledge of the modern drama from her book than
from any other recent compilation we know of.
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Transcriber's Notes
Advertisements were collected at the end of the text.
The table of contents on the title page was adjusted in order to reflect
correctly the headings in this issue of THE LITTLE REVIEW.
The article THE NEW LOYALTY--in the print interrupted on page 31--was
continued on page 66. Page 66 was therefore moved directly after page
31.
The original spelling was mostly preserved. A few obvious typographical
errors were silently corrected. All other changes are shown here
(before/after):
[p. 56]:
... Pas la coulem rien que la nuance!" has been mercilessly
crucified ...
... Pas la couleur, rien que la nuance!" has been mercilessly
crucified ...