Life — August 29, 1889 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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OUR FRESH AIR FUND Before, After Checks for Fresh Air Fund should be drawn to the order of Lire. HE children at Lire’s village have been the recipients of gifts which have caused intense excitement throughout the colony. One morning brought five sets of croquet, eight express wagons, three sets of graces, two bats and three baseballs. We can assure the send- ers that no preciative hands. To say that an article is appreciated means in this.case that it is constantly waited for, prayed for and struggled over. teen pounds of Huyler’s candies, shell in the camp. ts ever fell into more a The same morning brought six- It had much the effect of a bomb- Old ladies of six, and even eight years of age, skipped about like rubber balls, and as far as our superintendent could judge, made no effort to control themselves. Many story books and magazines have also been received eagerly devoured, In fact our than half way in any attempts to entertain them, and cuests are willing to meet you more IN THE CITY, Previously acknowledged, $5.546.54 J. B. Stockbridge, Mass, . J., through 257.00 Manchest 300 OW. TLV, co 3.00 Chubby . sco Receipts of Amateur Bail Game 8.co Proceeds of Fair held by the 10.00 Papooses of Nipnet soo Mra Wa. Kirney Nell and I 400 w. Our Baby . +4 200 HN . 400 $00 : 300 Elise Hurst Proceeds of a‘ Musicale" by Gecrge and Leonard” the Ladies of The Miss Josephine Gould Cold Spring Harbor, R. HLF. " B.T.S. Haroid Howard. soo G.C., Santa Barbara, Cal. . Elinor, Deita and Margaret woo Tate Alfreda Cornelia and Cornelia Eveline Meserole . 5 Fresh Air Fund's Share of the Arundel Hall Theatricals, Kennebunkport, Me. 46.00 and Crew of the Yacht Essex, Connecticut 5.00 Catharine + + hoo Josephine Rose Lincola 3.00 AWell Wisher. 2°.” sco Little Wheelman. +) hee nO, Heald... S00 Zinga 400 id & Earle Gerald Lowe, Hig, Lowe, Contribution from the Guests of Lotta Lowe and Margaret Massapequa Hotel, Massape- Lowe. ner ean Katharine and Dorothy, Tom L.,'Los Angetes, Cal. sas City, Mo. . From Melen and Eyre * Allston . Total U., of St. Paul, Minn, The Haird toys MBM. + $9.00 Hiotel Netherwood ©.” . "feo Curtis Parker Curtis Parker's Graedmother "4.00 4.00 + 2500 25.00 $6,577.54 TWO WAYS OF LOOKING AT A BOOK. AM surprised that you quote from George Moore's book,” said Adrian, a genial critic who does not write. “ Now, that man is to be thoroughly despised. Personally, I do not believe in Puritanical literature; but that young Epicurean writes us a eulogy of dissipation, There is nota line in his confessions which seems sincere. He is flippant to the last degree.” Well, then, let us agree with Adrian and say that so far as George Moore's “Confessions” have a moral quality they are insincere and often immoral. Let us add that he looks on life through a studio atmosphere, which distorts his per- spective; and let us frankly admit that he is not an admir- able type of man or writer. “cc . . . UT does not Adrian, to a degree, fall into the national habit of judging literature by its moral tone to the ex- clusion of everything else? From that point of view have not we all missed many fine thoughts in books which are in the neutral zone—neither moral or immoral. For instance, in this little book of George Moore's (though he says some very foolish things about moral questions) there are a goodly number of acute opinions on art and fiction, In his analysis of Henry James he sees the truth with clear vision when he says of one of his novels: “ Each scene is developed with complete foresight and certainty of touch. What Mr. James wants to do he does.” But for want of the “one magical and unique word, his characters are never re- solved out of the haze of nebulae. You are on a bowing ac- quaintance with them ; they pass you in the street, they stop and speak to you, you know how they are dressed, you watch the color of their eyes.” And then to sum it all up Mr. James's people live in a calm, sad, and very Even Adnan (who often agrees with me that James is a great literary artist) would confess that Mr. Moore has here fairly stated the most serious criticism which can be made against his fine workmanship. . . . Aw? what friend of Mr. Howells's would object to this analysis ? ‘He is as refined as Henry James; he is more domestic; girls with white dresses and virginal looks, languid mammas, mild witti- cisms, here, there and everywhere ; a couple of young men, one a little cynical, the other a little overshadowed by his love ; a strong, bearded man of fifty in the background ; in a word, a Tom Robertson comedy faintly spiced with American.” There is something very generous, too, in the way he frankly admits that he is not a competent critic of George Meredith, because he does not emotionally understand him. Just as frankly he proceeds to state that “in George Mere- dith there is nothing but crack-jaw sentences, empty and comicbooks.com