The Lening Post

BOOK
REVIEW


22


NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1920.
SECTION PAR
Arthur Schnitzler on the Vienna of Today
nd Carefree Vienna of "Anatol" Has Vanished Like a Dream
Yet, in Spite of Terrible
Privations, the Viennese Spirit is Not Crushed
By Joseph Gollomb
VIENNE, April 28.
who can afford it a single sardine on
phony orchestra to play for him a
and three years ago bring real hand¬
a plate two is a double portion¬
this city and regret¬
whole evening in his hotel room.
clapping from the Viennese today;
with a dab of mustard if you are
r. Was there ever a
With tips they cost him two and a
and somehow even to an American
willing to pay for it. Of bread, even
trauss waltzes? Ot
half dollars, so low is the Austrian
they seem to have a surprising fresh¬
the darkish mongrel kind, there is
rivalling Paris,
krone. In the café you can have an
ness and youth here.
none, unless you are dining in some
rosette-like rolls of
excellent sketch in crayon made of
On Sundays the people still oock
haunt of profiteers. The people sit
t the name Vienna
yourself for twenty cents; thirty for
to Wiener Wald. But it is only to
beside these nominal excuses for re¬
rld? Were these
a caricature by a man who will show
gather wood. The splendid forests,
freshments, looking a little con¬
gay at night with
you his work in the humorous weekly
once the pride of the Viennes and
scious of their worn clothes, for
from every restau¬
you are reading. The orchestra plays
loved for their green beauties, are be¬
Viennese know what it is to dress
is the bright-faced
superbly and the applause is gener¬
ing cut down for fuel ; and you see
well. They glance through skipy
locked on Sundays to
ous. But it all sounds hollow.
people dragging logs of new wood for
journals; paper costs enormously.
the first excuse for
Something is not there. A Strauss
miles back to the city. Recently the
They comment occasionally on this
sers Caprice Vien
like waltz you seldom hear. For
park department ordered a general
or that, and are mildly glad when
? And when you
Vienna, like the rest of Europe, has
pruning of trees in the city, just to
the music strikes up.
faces in the city of
turned to the popular music of
give the poor a chance to gather the
In the biggest cafés there is
der most of all, was
America; America, the young and
twigs that fell.
music; for musicians, like other pro¬
Vienna such as Dr.
vital when Europe is so tired;
And as to the world of Anatol and
fessionals in Vienna, are plentiful
er, physician, novel¬
America so overflowing with bar¬
his friends?
and to be had cheaply. I know of a
cht, pictured in his
baric vitality that the jazz band is
I went to Dr. Schnitzler himself
leather goods buyer from America
Anatol of light
its expression. Tunes that ran their
for news of them. The man who has
and delicate sorrows,
who hired a quintet from a sym¬ brief course in the United States two
caught the spirit of Vienna's youth is
day was new with
numerically fifty seven years old. He
elevated the embar¬
is rather square in build and there¬
tings with the old
fore looks shorter than he is; but an
IN THIS ISSUE
graceful art?
aliveness that would mean youth at
na must have existed
any age gives him dominance in any
ARTHUR SCHNITZLER INTERVIEWED IN MODERN VIENNA
ne, lived and played
group. His gray blue eyes are warm
By Joseph Gollamb
shioned a city to its
and bright. His ample brown hai¬
although Anatol¬
and trimmed beard give no hint of
ANAPPRAISAL OF THOMAS HARDVS PROSE
to the world over
his years in spite of the gray in them.
The Both birthday of the great English novelist occurred on June 2
it still lives event.
He talks fast, well and boyantly,
By John Erskine
ling public in Gran¬
constantly crowded from his theme
THE ORDEAL OF MAR TAIN, DE VAN WYCK BROOKS
quisite version, and
by a swarm of shouldering memories.
Reviewed by Carl Van Doren
of those who saw
Goethe, Schiller, Lessing, Heine,
play it. Since there
George Bernard Shaw and Shake¬
MES. WARENS DAUGHTER, BV SIR HARRE JOHNSTON.
de freight of social
speare, the last two in German as
Reviewed by Wilson Follett
these little come¬
well as in English, and a host of
How CHESTERTON REGARDS DIVORCE
kept them alive so
other books look down from the
By Renée Darmstadter
shelves of handsome book cabinets.
e, there is in them the
Through a panelle window I saw a
HAVE D'HIGINS INTERVIEWED BY JOSEPH ANT
Anatol one really
glimpse of wood with a red sun set
TRADE UNIONS AND THE I. W. W.
him his city, then
ting behind the trees; in the other
By George Soule
nged Vienna today.
direction, down hill, the roofs of
girdle of boulevards
Vienna itself. A white porcelain
ERA POUND THE INNOVATOR
in