Judge — October 14, 1922 — page 26: what you’re looking at

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Dayton, Ohio each Write for tree catal jewelry | off to ‘That serial I'm re A Parody Parade by Walter Prichard Eaton “Collected Parodies.” By J. C. Squire. Hodder After reading Keith's book, by the and Stoughton, London. cma “Splinters.”. By Keith Preston. George H. Wily, We started out to write this review Doran Co. es, just e his. jooked so “The “Shrek.” By Charles Somerville. w. J. il! Thymes, just like his, It look Watt and Co. blamed easy. ‘Take it from us—it isn’t “To-morrow We Die t. * By Nina Wilcox Putnam. Geese Hi. Doran'€e PPE, SHRIER™ is something « HE parodies of J. C. Squire, in ain. "The best we can say for it is pe and ve have been collected that it's no worse thi ‘olyn Wells in one volume, and ina preface the burlesque of “Main Street,” but that’s author says he will never write any more. not loosing much of a larynxful, at that We should be exer if we be- ing sorry st question which arises is why in | lieved him. A good parody is one of the ame of forest Conservation anybody most difficult things in the world to wants to take the trouble to burlesque write—at any rate, intentionally. Most) “The Sheik.’ The author of “The parodies are mere burlesques. | good Sheik” did that herself. It would be im- parody is the subtlest sort of criticism, possible to make the beok any more and sometimes the cruelest. J.C. Squire ridicule Mr. Somerville has tried, master of this art, and his master- piece, we are inclined to think, is Gray Elegy as Gray would have written it ha he been compelled to compose in. the ceme f Spoon River. We can never again read the Spoon River Anthology We is a he has tried! but have seldom witnessed a more tremendous suffering saints, effort to be funny. And we have seldom been less amused. dl TINA WILCOX PUTNAM'S without a grin. This is the parody which 4N- qnorrow We Diet” isn't supposed to | contains the immortal stanza be a parody. We gather t Mrs Here where the flattering and mendacious Putnam, having grown fat, cast about for swarm a method to grow thin again, and having Of lying epitaphs their secrets keep, found it sa Ha, ha! Irv Cobb wrote | of further harm a funny piece to for his diet. Sam ‘The lewd forefathers of the village sleep Blythe wrote a funny piece to pay for Just one word changed from Gray in his diet. Why shouldn't T write a funny that last line, and the trick is done! piece to 7 or my diet Which same , Squire is a poet himself, she done. That is, we presume it is a anil a serious guy, who edits the London funny piece. A’ great many people ap- ting amusement in the spectacle of a fat lady endeavoring to induce this too too solid flesh to melt. It never struck us quite that way. We never felt tempted to guffaw at the sight pear to find excruci Mercury. can be successful humorists. It is only serious people who ND they are not all English. Some £2 of the best parodies and light verse to be found to-day are scatte in of a criminal trying reform—and a American newspaper columns. A. woman who lets he ot fat is, to our } and Don quis, for instan re notion, one of the greatest of sinners. artists. So is Keith Preston, of Chicago, She is bringing needless ugliness into a who (and gosh how we hate him for it!) world which has quite too much already can brisk up his-book reviewing with When she honestly tries to reduce we rkle all y fond ains thi are parti couplets and qu over the page. do not laugh—we pray. And we prefer to keep our eves averted till the job is done W of this review of Bolton and Marshall's “The Colonization of North Americ O" THAT mine enemy had writ 2 pavers engil book, By dams that beavers engineered I'd show him up, I would! Then presently he wrote a book, And the pesky thing was good! I ONT AND LIVERIGHT plaintively advertising in the “Authors” Le Bulletin” for myste and detective s of book length * more than merit.” The sponse, they It seems the right time for us to submit our baffling detective story, in which the man at whom all the evidence points will turn out on the last page to be the mur derer. But maybe this is too iconoclastic. And clearings Fr and Injuns cleared, We sturdy Anglo-Saxons potted The first inhabitants and squatted. This may not be exactly a parody, but it is certainly a criticism—but whether of the book or the Anglo-Saxons, we leave it to you to say. Or how about this start “Safety First”? have been gue nd ‘a s been disappointing ng had me scared, it ‘The hero started speeding and looked sure to skid; heroine almost) y can't get very naughty in the Sat . Post. The seemed slipping (and she did, 24 | i ik aint