+ utilized for important work. For, although Mr. Bradford has been hampered by ill health for a great portion of his life, he has developed that skill in biography which has caused his portraits to be termed "psychographs." This glimpse of the soul of Edwin Booth presents a figure which lives in American history. It has become a little dim with age. Mr. Bradford has taken it and brushed it up and presented to us here a living man. People are still apologizing for jazz and European musicians are frantic because American jazz orchestras are JazzOur Own driving them out of business in their own bailiwick. William J. Henderson cuts down under all the talk about "high art" and "the classics" and shows that jazz is not a poor thing but is decidedly our own. And this is from a man who graduated from Princeton in 1876, so it is none of your modern youth movement to overturn old idols. Thomas Boyd's book, "Through Wheat," praiseworthy, deplored the that Mr. Boyd "gives hardly a realizing that the war had an obier sufficient importance to make the he price worth paying." We wonder the author of the editorial thinks a it now. Speaking of contrasts, as we have all through these columns, Kyle ton, author of "For Sale: Med was born in the now deserted village of Peale, Pa., and is a boosting Albuquerque, N. V vertising agent for the Char merce. Mary Gordon found the open road, and wh of life she saw in those It makes one realize h see for those who ha -All" should add : next tour that yo And then look Perhaps the fact that Mr. Henderson went to college kept him from being a jazz artist himself, if Henry Rood's theory about "College and the Artist" holds true. Yet we should call Mr. Henderson an artist in his line. Mr. Rood was the man who received the wireless message from Admiral Peary announcing his discovery of the North Pole, and he was the first American to board Peary's ship when it returned from its momentous voyage. After reading his article, a number of college presidents will want to send Mr. Rood to the North Pole or to the region having the opposite extreme of tempera- an ture. There's much to be said for Mr. of Rood's thesis, even if you don't agree a with his list of first and second rate artists of the past century. Colleges are deadening unless one has the luck or the perception to realize it the day one enter With all this propaganda for prepa ness going on about us, with admira navy secretaries and g Pacifists howling about the without our gates Boyd's stories have an added s It is refreshing see tha 6 You've had a view of the colorful way in which John Hays Hammond writes. In the March number of SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE he continues "Strong Men of the Wild West" with tales of Black Bart, Wyatt Earp, and others of their ilk. We see the doughty Siringo again and get glimpses of Dawson saloons and Transvaal diamond-mines. Combining his experiences during the time he was with Cecil Rhodes in Africa and a mining engineer in our own West, Mr. Hammond draws from them some valuable ideas concerning law, one of which is that we are essentially a lawdefying people. In writing to advertisers please mention SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE PUBLISHED MONTHLY. PRICE 35 CENTS A NUMBER; $4.00 A YEAR Copyrighted in 1925 in United States, Canada, and Great Britain by Charles Scribner's Sons. Printed in New York. All rights Scribners Authors FOR OR once we are allowing ourselves to be betrayed into dogmatic statement. And the statement is this: the most encouraging characteristic of this age is its restlessness. Rank Schism If this be heresy, make the most of it! This quality, to which the graybeards attribute all the evils of our present civilization, is the very essence of life. Whatever progress this staggering old planet has achieved is due to it; the poignant and beautiful books and pictures and music and sculpture have come out of an inner restlessness which would not be stilled until it attained release and expression. And restlessness is innocent of that greatest evil of all, stagnation. President Hopkins of Dartmouth in an address recently made before Harvard students spoke of the educated man: Such a man must have been humble in the presence of great minds and great souls, must have been simple in contacts with his fellows, and must have been indefatigable in his desire to cultivate and to maintain the power of his mind and to accumulate that knowledge which makes up the data of accurate reasoning. If for "simple," we substitute "transparent," we should be surprisingly near the title and the idea of George Sarton's essay in this number. Doctor Sarton, as he said in a recent letter to Michael Pupin, is the only person in the world who makes his living by the study of the history of science. He is editor of Isis, an international quarterly devoted to the history of science and civilization. The publication of the magazine in Brussels was halted by the German invasion, and Doc Are You Educated? Simple and indefatigable, says Doctor Hopkins. The educated man is restless, but he doesn't bruit his learning abroad, nor make his restlessness a pose. And the educated man rarely becomes an evangelist. He affects the world by example, and not by posing as an example. The carpers had better talk of lack of balance and lack of real education, which is driving the restless to seek release in externals, continuous movement and action without thought. The educated man is a man with certain subtle spiritual qualities which make him calm in adrational and sane in the fullest meaning of the versity, happy when alone, just in his dealings, word in all the affairs of his life. |