THIEVENING POST; NEW YORK, SATURDAY UNE 5, 1920
a crust of bread, a broken shoe, a spell of
I thought of something I had seen that
zur Schnitzler on Vienna of Today
freezing weather, et rything. Even the
afternoon. Down one of the main streets
end of fighting in the field brought no
of Vienna a cart full of coal drove slowly,
(Continued from Page One.)
actual relief. Food stock still went on
Behind it walked a man in a soldiers
sinking; prices soared still higher. The
ner Wald to go to and
faded uniform; to guard the coal
inclination of our people to recognize the
Austrian krone could buy almost nothing
ese are a most lovable
thought. Then as the wagon came abreast
intrinsic worth of its own talent has a
from abroad. The foreigner came and
sun smiles. They have
me I saw that he was cally picking out
positive fault. Viennese are prone to ac¬
bought everything in Austria for prac¬
for laughing, for melo¬
big lumps of coal from the wagon and
cept the shody products—not in art, for
tically nothing and at his coming prices
graces of life. When the
putting them in a sack. It faces mean
their aste is sure in that respect, but of
leaped up and up.
r. Schnitzler repeated.
anything that man was habitually honest.
demagogues who lay themselves ou to
"It became a tremendously profitable
Nor was there the least sign of guilt or
capture popularity. We had a burgo¬
he most characteristic
thing to smuggle in food from the country
fear in his manner. Having filled his sack
master not so long ago who was a genius
se is changeableness
and to sell it at illegal rates to the for¬
he gave it to his comrade, another soldier
in his way. He knew exactly the degree
ned. And the modern
eigner and the profiter. The farmer who
who had been walking near him, and tak-
of folly in the Viennese mind and how to
the free for long, free
had food kept it from the open market
ing from him another sack proceeded to
cater to it. As a result his popularity was
turity. From every side
for the schleichhändler, who paid him ex¬
fill that, too. Nobody seemed to notice the
so tremendous that Emperor Franz Joseph
on them social, polit¬
orbitant prices and still made a huge profit.
proceeding nor to think anything about it
himself was jealous of the huzzas which
tal problems which are
Our people saw their own children star¬
greeted this burgomaster every time he
if they did notice it.
ferner peoples than the
ing. And in the big hotels and restau¬
That, commented Dr. Schnitzler,
stirred out of his house. He got it all by
he youthful Vienna of
rants, on the Ring and before the Opera
such utterances as this: Nature knows
common in Vienna today, but not char¬
vanished like a dream.
House, they saw overed, bejeelle, fu¬
best. If I were dangerously I would
acteristic of it. It simply means that it
Great War came that
clad schiebers (profiteers) and schleich¬
follow the advice of a superstitious wife
spirit is submerged.
hanged world. Possibly
händler rolling in opulence. It made our
rather than that of the wiset doctor
"Crushed?" I asked.
much older that I see
people exceedingly bitter.
The spirit of Vienna can never be
That's one aspect of Vienna, other
But I know many
How is it they don't take stones and
the great number of bookstores.
crushed," he said with rising enthusiasm.
And it seems to me
smash in the windows of hotels and res¬
"There is still too much of youth in de
That was one of the things which struck
generation is much dif¬
taurants and help themselves?" I asked.
left. Relieve it a little of the load on it
me most forcibly about Vienna. Food
Anators day. It
Woll, for one thing, the Vienne is not
and you will see it rise. But it needs a
scarce: paper coste appallingly; rag¬
lider stuff. It has been
te explosive kind. Physical violence is
strong friend to help it up. It needs a
almost precious; and yet the books to
and hommered on the
rather repulsive to him. Another reason,
country like America to take it by the
about the city are many and opulent in
life. Our young men
however, is that it is not the proletariat
hand And well it would pay any such
stock. And the beauty and color of litho¬
had to choose sides
who have suffered out of proportion in all
assistance. It would read with talent of
raphy, the unstante quality and quantity
a war. I don't mean
this as it is the middle class the profes¬
every kind. With high intelligence in in¬
of material and the brisness of the busi¬
They are easier for
sionals, the people living on incomes, the
ness are astonishing,
dustry. With a lovingness of nature.
You go with the rest,
gently bred. Laborers are organized and
With enthusiasme in work in which it is
There you have it, Dr. Schnitzler com¬
hen it is a case of war
can force their needs on the attention of
interested. With music and lithographie
mented when I spoke of it. "On the one
against agnosticism
employers, for labor is always in demand
art, with modern science and with a sure
hand, a readiness to accept the shody
aliam against socialism,
and labor has managed to get pald. But
taste of beauty; with machinery, surgery,
te antagonists why,
demagogue ; on the other hand, a ken de¬
the arts, the luxuries, the refinements of
decoration, music, architecture all that a
sire for the best in thought and art. Re¬
is often in the heart
life are dispensed with at such times I
great modern city can give to the world;
luctance to accept a prophet of their own
of the young fellow
know that the families of even physicians
a city indomitably young in spirit, ma¬
longer a question of
people and the quick appreciation of the
go hungering to-y. And this class of
tured by great experiences, tempered by
on. It becomes a mat-
talent and genius of other lands. I sup¬
people have not the hardihood to take up
fire and made wiser by suffering. The
hing, bitter conflict in
pose Vienna is adolescent still; its char¬
cobblestones and help themselves. But
Vienna of the merely gay days, the days of
orkshop, in the circle of
acter is not yet formed; its inconsistencies
among the desperately poor and others
thoughtless youth, is gone. But it lies in
merly you found only
still lie side by side, intact and unmodified.
there has come a new point of view in
the hands of the Allies whether in its place
at to play, Strikes and
Or rather I should say that was the con¬
morality or unmorality. You hear people
there develops a new Vienna which, in¬
mass demonstrations
dition of affairs with us in 1914. Since
saying. Since it is permitted to steal
litary abuse and the
stead of being a burden to the world and
then there have been fiery years, years in
He finished with a shrug of the shoul¬
these were the matters
to itself, becomes one of the great and
which the character of Vienna has aged
ders.
the time and thoughts
beautiful cities of civilization."
many times six years.
pur young people. Oh.
The Crown Prince, Franz Ferdinand,
ASKYOUR BOOKSELLER FOR¬
g, too, of course. They
was not very much liked in Vienna," Dr.
saying. That is in the
Schnitzler went on, his tone changing un¬
LEONARD MERRICKS irresistibly charming
the Viennes. But they
consciously as he came to the war. But
The Worldlings
with life.
his murder produced a genuine shock. Be¬
fore Vienna could recover from it and to
ty itself developed like
As an artist depicting the finest shades of human character while
think clearly events came rushing like a
child. In 1850 it was
telling a thrilling story, Mr. Merrick is simply unapproach¬
mountainside. Of course they were largely
malla surrounded
able.
81.90
manipulated; and still more they had their
Ring, which is now the
momentum in great economic and political
RICHARD WASHEURN CHILD's new novel
de city, was then only
movements of hostility over which not
face, a road. Why, as
The Vanishing Men
only Vienna had no control, but even the
nifestrasse was a sub¬
rulers of the world.
A mystery ingeniously conceived, a solution hidden to the very
one of the busiest of
end, and delightfully related.
I feel that our people have no love for
streets. The city grew
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militarism and that left to themselves,
all clothes. New de¬
Dr. FRANCIS BRETT YOUNGS new novel
they would have sought a solution les
on hearts to young to
The Young Physician
savage than war; but events and insti¬
result was wory, con¬
tutions dragooned them into it and Aus¬
ments of life on all mis¬
The story of a youth at the critical years which make or mar the
tria was one of the very first countries to
y. From much of this
coming man is told with the delicacy and fine insight which
feel the shock of war. In September and
ed. But it has not re¬
distinguished "The Crescent Moon.
82.50
November of 1914 the Russian armies
ing youth, its untroub¬
swept into Austria like a tidal Wave and
SHEILA RAYE-SMITHIS new novel
it seemed as though it would go all the
ber that to begin with
Tamarisk Town
way. In Vienna there was quite a flutter.
te so light as the world
To fly or not? Some people, notably the
When a man's whole soul is in one undertaking, and he comes to
Schnitzler had con¬
very rich their very wealth seems to
love passionately a woman who hates it —what then? It is a
is characterizations. It
breed a cowardice did fly in their autos.
strongly worked out story.
see in him the impulse
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But in the main Vienna stayed. Some out
ter or a situation with
MARIORIE DOUIES Burmese mystery
of pride, others because of fatalism; many
speech, and to see that
because leaving Vienna would be a dis¬
The Pointing Man
checked and corrected
comfort and a strangeness worse than any
long passion to present
Has in it the fascinating color of an Eastern bazar, a touch of
evil they could picture of occupation by a
in all its fulness an
en
an
a crust of bread, a broken shoe, a spell of
I thought of something I had seen that
zur Schnitzler on Vienna of Today
freezing weather, et rything. Even the
afternoon. Down one of the main streets
end of fighting in the field brought no
of Vienna a cart full of coal drove slowly,
(Continued from Page One.)
actual relief. Food stock still went on
Behind it walked a man in a soldiers
sinking; prices soared still higher. The
ner Wald to go to and
faded uniform; to guard the coal
inclination of our people to recognize the
Austrian krone could buy almost nothing
ese are a most lovable
thought. Then as the wagon came abreast
intrinsic worth of its own talent has a
from abroad. The foreigner came and
sun smiles. They have
me I saw that he was cally picking out
positive fault. Viennese are prone to ac¬
bought everything in Austria for prac¬
for laughing, for melo¬
big lumps of coal from the wagon and
cept the shody products—not in art, for
tically nothing and at his coming prices
graces of life. When the
putting them in a sack. It faces mean
their aste is sure in that respect, but of
leaped up and up.
r. Schnitzler repeated.
anything that man was habitually honest.
demagogues who lay themselves ou to
"It became a tremendously profitable
Nor was there the least sign of guilt or
capture popularity. We had a burgo¬
he most characteristic
thing to smuggle in food from the country
fear in his manner. Having filled his sack
master not so long ago who was a genius
se is changeableness
and to sell it at illegal rates to the for¬
he gave it to his comrade, another soldier
in his way. He knew exactly the degree
ned. And the modern
eigner and the profiter. The farmer who
who had been walking near him, and tak-
of folly in the Viennese mind and how to
the free for long, free
had food kept it from the open market
ing from him another sack proceeded to
cater to it. As a result his popularity was
turity. From every side
for the schleichhändler, who paid him ex¬
fill that, too. Nobody seemed to notice the
so tremendous that Emperor Franz Joseph
on them social, polit¬
orbitant prices and still made a huge profit.
proceeding nor to think anything about it
himself was jealous of the huzzas which
tal problems which are
Our people saw their own children star¬
greeted this burgomaster every time he
if they did notice it.
ferner peoples than the
ing. And in the big hotels and restau¬
That, commented Dr. Schnitzler,
stirred out of his house. He got it all by
he youthful Vienna of
rants, on the Ring and before the Opera
such utterances as this: Nature knows
common in Vienna today, but not char¬
vanished like a dream.
House, they saw overed, bejeelle, fu¬
best. If I were dangerously I would
acteristic of it. It simply means that it
Great War came that
clad schiebers (profiteers) and schleich¬
follow the advice of a superstitious wife
spirit is submerged.
hanged world. Possibly
händler rolling in opulence. It made our
rather than that of the wiset doctor
"Crushed?" I asked.
much older that I see
people exceedingly bitter.
The spirit of Vienna can never be
That's one aspect of Vienna, other
But I know many
How is it they don't take stones and
the great number of bookstores.
crushed," he said with rising enthusiasm.
And it seems to me
smash in the windows of hotels and res¬
"There is still too much of youth in de
That was one of the things which struck
generation is much dif¬
taurants and help themselves?" I asked.
left. Relieve it a little of the load on it
me most forcibly about Vienna. Food
Anators day. It
Woll, for one thing, the Vienne is not
and you will see it rise. But it needs a
scarce: paper coste appallingly; rag¬
lider stuff. It has been
te explosive kind. Physical violence is
strong friend to help it up. It needs a
almost precious; and yet the books to
and hommered on the
rather repulsive to him. Another reason,
country like America to take it by the
about the city are many and opulent in
life. Our young men
however, is that it is not the proletariat
hand And well it would pay any such
stock. And the beauty and color of litho¬
had to choose sides
who have suffered out of proportion in all
assistance. It would read with talent of
raphy, the unstante quality and quantity
a war. I don't mean
this as it is the middle class the profes¬
every kind. With high intelligence in in¬
of material and the brisness of the busi¬
They are easier for
sionals, the people living on incomes, the
ness are astonishing,
dustry. With a lovingness of nature.
You go with the rest,
gently bred. Laborers are organized and
With enthusiasme in work in which it is
There you have it, Dr. Schnitzler com¬
hen it is a case of war
can force their needs on the attention of
interested. With music and lithographie
mented when I spoke of it. "On the one
against agnosticism
employers, for labor is always in demand
art, with modern science and with a sure
hand, a readiness to accept the shody
aliam against socialism,
and labor has managed to get pald. But
taste of beauty; with machinery, surgery,
te antagonists why,
demagogue ; on the other hand, a ken de¬
the arts, the luxuries, the refinements of
decoration, music, architecture all that a
sire for the best in thought and art. Re¬
is often in the heart
life are dispensed with at such times I
great modern city can give to the world;
luctance to accept a prophet of their own
of the young fellow
know that the families of even physicians
a city indomitably young in spirit, ma¬
longer a question of
people and the quick appreciation of the
go hungering to-y. And this class of
tured by great experiences, tempered by
on. It becomes a mat-
talent and genius of other lands. I sup¬
people have not the hardihood to take up
fire and made wiser by suffering. The
hing, bitter conflict in
pose Vienna is adolescent still; its char¬
cobblestones and help themselves. But
Vienna of the merely gay days, the days of
orkshop, in the circle of
acter is not yet formed; its inconsistencies
among the desperately poor and others
thoughtless youth, is gone. But it lies in
merly you found only
still lie side by side, intact and unmodified.
there has come a new point of view in
the hands of the Allies whether in its place
at to play, Strikes and
Or rather I should say that was the con¬
morality or unmorality. You hear people
there develops a new Vienna which, in¬
mass demonstrations
dition of affairs with us in 1914. Since
saying. Since it is permitted to steal
litary abuse and the
stead of being a burden to the world and
then there have been fiery years, years in
He finished with a shrug of the shoul¬
these were the matters
to itself, becomes one of the great and
which the character of Vienna has aged
ders.
the time and thoughts
beautiful cities of civilization."
many times six years.
pur young people. Oh.
The Crown Prince, Franz Ferdinand,
ASKYOUR BOOKSELLER FOR¬
g, too, of course. They
was not very much liked in Vienna," Dr.
saying. That is in the
Schnitzler went on, his tone changing un¬
LEONARD MERRICKS irresistibly charming
the Viennes. But they
consciously as he came to the war. But
The Worldlings
with life.
his murder produced a genuine shock. Be¬
fore Vienna could recover from it and to
ty itself developed like
As an artist depicting the finest shades of human character while
think clearly events came rushing like a
child. In 1850 it was
telling a thrilling story, Mr. Merrick is simply unapproach¬
mountainside. Of course they were largely
malla surrounded
able.
81.90
manipulated; and still more they had their
Ring, which is now the
momentum in great economic and political
RICHARD WASHEURN CHILD's new novel
de city, was then only
movements of hostility over which not
face, a road. Why, as
The Vanishing Men
only Vienna had no control, but even the
nifestrasse was a sub¬
rulers of the world.
A mystery ingeniously conceived, a solution hidden to the very
one of the busiest of
end, and delightfully related.
I feel that our people have no love for
streets. The city grew
82.00
militarism and that left to themselves,
all clothes. New de¬
Dr. FRANCIS BRETT YOUNGS new novel
they would have sought a solution les
on hearts to young to
The Young Physician
savage than war; but events and insti¬
result was wory, con¬
tutions dragooned them into it and Aus¬
ments of life on all mis¬
The story of a youth at the critical years which make or mar the
tria was one of the very first countries to
y. From much of this
coming man is told with the delicacy and fine insight which
feel the shock of war. In September and
ed. But it has not re¬
distinguished "The Crescent Moon.
82.50
November of 1914 the Russian armies
ing youth, its untroub¬
swept into Austria like a tidal Wave and
SHEILA RAYE-SMITHIS new novel
it seemed as though it would go all the
ber that to begin with
Tamarisk Town
way. In Vienna there was quite a flutter.
te so light as the world
To fly or not? Some people, notably the
When a man's whole soul is in one undertaking, and he comes to
Schnitzler had con¬
very rich their very wealth seems to
love passionately a woman who hates it —what then? It is a
is characterizations. It
breed a cowardice did fly in their autos.
strongly worked out story.
see in him the impulse
82.50
But in the main Vienna stayed. Some out
ter or a situation with
MARIORIE DOUIES Burmese mystery
of pride, others because of fatalism; many
speech, and to see that
because leaving Vienna would be a dis¬
The Pointing Man
checked and corrected
comfort and a strangeness worse than any
long passion to present
Has in it the fascinating color of an Eastern bazar, a touch of
evil they could picture of occupation by a
in all its fulness an
en
an