Judge — June 14, 1924 — page 29: what you’re looking at

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in nd ‘ho nd, “q jon be XUM The Hobos that Bloom in the Spring (Continued from page 20) Suckow's sympathetic study of them to suggest that they ever can be—in the high tradition of the pioneer America. Can it be that we are going to have a peasant class in this country? Is that a penalty we pay for getting older? ‘The prospect. is not cheerful. The present writer confesses that he has occasionally read criticisms — by Stark Young, in The New Republic and elsewhere, which went singing sweetly over his head, a wind of words in. the magazine leaves, and left him charmed but bewildered below. In “The Three Fountains,” however (Chas. Scribner's Sons), Mr. Young is clear i has produced an odd, original, and in the best sense a beautiful book. It is a book, too, about one of the oldest subjects in the world—Italy. Mr. Young's heart, like Robert: Browning’s, evidently has “Italy” graved inside of it. But it: is no burbling guidebook which he writes. His method is rather the method of Heine, though we hasten to reassure the heads of families and the purchasi boards of public librarics that the simi- larity ceases with the method, and does: not include the material. Mr. Young's recorded adventures are more discreet and intellectual, as befits an editor of The New Republic. You see Italy, as it were, through the window of a pension, through the eyes of an English profe touring there, or the eyes of a young graduate full of dreams, or a wise old Italian priest who discu and their curious ways. Zz es the English But you do see Italy, you catch its glamour and spell,you get subtly into the scerets of its beauty. Of course, Mr. Young is occasionally a little hard on his fellow-countrymen. That seems to be a part of the mique of writing about Europe. He is greatly at a lot of till three AM, and then rose cheerfully at seven. “Then,” he exclaims, “I thought of our Northern uerves, our exhaustions; of Fellows’ Hypophosphites; of my friend who goes up to Peterborough to get enough vitality to finish a onc-act play.” Well, well, quite a few Americans have sat up till three and then risen in the morning and gone to work, and we assure Mr. Young that however it is with his usted friend, there are dramatists who can finish a whole four-act play without a single visit to the Macdowell colony in Peterborough. There is G. M. Cohan, who has written plays in a state- room of the Knickerbocker Limited be- tween New York and Boston. Clyde Fitch used to toss off four plays a year. Booth Tarkington thinks nothing of a couple of dramas, a long novel, and a dozen short stories in a winter, before he departs for Kennebunkport. Vitality is fess a matter of race than of persons. 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