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diff --git a/40232-h/40232-h.htm b/40232-h/40232-h.htm index d07df6b..ca1e0e7 100644 --- a/40232-h/40232-h.htm +++ b/40232-h/40232-h.htm @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> - <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" /> + <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" /> <title> The Project Gutenberg eBook of Post-impressions, by Simeon Strunsky. @@ -86,45 +86,7 @@ table { </style> </head> <body> - - -<pre> - -The Project Gutenberg EBook of Post-Impressions, by Simeon Strunsky - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with -almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org/license - - -Title: Post-Impressions - An Irresponsible Chronicle - -Author: Simeon Strunsky - -Release Date: July 14, 2012 [EBook #40232] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK POST-IMPRESSIONS *** - - - - -Produced by Annie R. McGuire. This book was produced from -scanned images of public domain material from the Google -Print archive. - - - - - - -</pre> - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 40232 ***</div> <hr class="chap" /> <h1>POST-IMPRESSIONS</h1> @@ -575,9 +537,9 @@ could get the best choice with the least expenditure of energy. Nevertheless she came back from her first day's shopping with a headache.</p> -<p>Éponge is a rough, Turkish-towel fabric, selling in many widths, and +<p>Éponge is a rough, Turkish-towel fabric, selling in many widths, and eminently desirable for out-of-door wear because of its peculiar -adaptability to the slim styles which prevent walking. Éponge has this +adaptability to the slim styles which prevent walking. Éponge has this fatal defect, however, that when it is advertised in ready-made gowns at an astounding reduction from $39.50, all the desirable models<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</a></span> sell out some time before ten o'clock in the morning. Hence Emmeline's headache. @@ -595,9 +557,9 @@ through early at the stores, and we might look at books together.</p> <p>Charmeuse is a shimmering, silk-like material which lends itself admirably to summer wear, because it stains easily. But in its effect on -the shopper's nerves, charmeuse is even worse than éponge. In fact, as a +the shopper's nerves, charmeuse is even worse than éponge. In fact, as a preparation for a summer's reading, I don't<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</a></span> know what is more -exhausting than charmeuse, unless it be crêpe de Chine. Emmeline did not +exhausting than charmeuse, unless it be crêpe de Chine. Emmeline did not drop in for lunch that day, and when I came home at night, I found her more depressed than ever. There was nothing to be had downtown. Prices were impossible and anything else wasn't fit to be touched. It might be @@ -608,7 +570,7 @@ others short and square. One particularly heavy box felt as if it might contain a set of Strindberg, but turned out to be a really handsome coat in blue chinchilla which Emmeline explained would be just the thing for cool nights in the country. She had bought it in despair at obtaining -the kind of crêpe de Chine she wanted. The crêpe de Chine came in a +the kind of crêpe de Chine she wanted. The crêpe de Chine came in a smaller box.</p> <p>At breakfast the next day we were tremendously cheerful. I told Emmeline @@ -741,7 +703,7 @@ printed frequently on the first page.</p> <p>She could study them with comparative leisure in the Night Court. Outside in the course of her daily routine she might catch an occasional glimpse of these same women, through the windows of a passing taxi, or -in the matinée crowds, or going in and out of the fashionable shops. But +in the matinée crowds, or going in and out of the fashionable shops. But her work<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</a></span> took her seldom into the region of taxicabs and fashionable shops. The nature of her occupation kept her to furtive corners and the dark side of streets. Nor was she at such times in the mood for just @@ -749,7 +711,7 @@ appreciation of the beautiful things in life. More than any other walk of life, hers was of an exacting nature, calling for intense powers of concentration both as regards the public and the police. It was different in the Night Court. Here, having nothing to fear and nothing -out of the usual to hope for, she might give herself up to the æsthetic +out of the usual to hope for, she might give herself up to the æsthetic contemplation of a beautiful world of which, at any other time, she could catch mere fugitive aspects.</p> @@ -1084,7 +1046,7 @@ as heavy as<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[Pg 50]</a></spa this indicates for the prosperity of the country under Mr. Woodrow Wilson.</p> -<p>Julius Cæsar is said to have been in the habit of dictating to three +<p>Julius Cæsar is said to have been in the habit of dictating to three secretaries simultaneously. How does this compare with the literary productivity of Mr. Arnold Bennett and Mr. Jack London?</p> @@ -1412,7 +1374,7 @@ Laura playing with her alphabet blocks. I thought: Well, our lives may be spoiled, but there is the child. Life had cast no shadow on the current of her young days. At that moment the hall-boy brought in a letter. It was addressed to Miss Laura Smith—our baby.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70">[Pg 70]</a></span> It was from the -Wisconsin Laboratory of Juvenile Æsthetics. It contained a list of +Wisconsin Laboratory of Juvenile Æsthetics. It contained a list of questions for the child to answer. How many hours a day did she play? Did she prefer to play in the house or on the street? Did she look into shop windows when she was out walking or at moving-picture posters? Was @@ -1514,7 +1476,7 @@ illustrations from Langley's masterly work on the subject. Gunther."</p> <p>My ruse had succeeded. I was prepared now to keep up a fairly active correspondence until the missing paper was found. I knew of Samuel Pierpont Langley, one of the greatest of American astronomers and a -pioneer of aviation. I turned to the encyclopædia to see which one of +pioneer of aviation. I turned to the encyclopædia to see which one of Langley's books was likely to be the one Gunther had in mind. There, before me, was a biographical sketch of John Newport Langley, an English physiologist, who had published, among other<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77">[Pg 77]</a></span> things, a treatise "On the @@ -1600,7 +1562,7 @@ the man and slaying him before his side of the case comes back to you."</p> <p>"People," said Cooper, with that happy gift of his for dropping a subject to suit his own convenience, "have fallen into the habit of saying that the art of letter-writing is extinct. They say we don't -write the way Madame de Sévigné did or Charles Lamb. This is not true.</p> +write the way Madame de Sévigné did or Charles Lamb. This is not true.</p> <p>"For instance, on April 26, 1913, Charles Crawl, a low-income American residing in the soft-coal districts of western Pennsylvania, wrote a @@ -2491,7 +2453,7 @@ doing<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_133" id="Page_133">[Pg 133]</a></span> odd moments. I guess at what I can guess and am content to wait.</p> <p>And waiting, I have my reward—occasionally. Not until several weeks -after I had discovered that Harold had the entrée into ecclesiastical +after I had discovered that Harold had the entrée into ecclesiastical circles did the subject come up again. The boy paused between two spoonfuls of cereal and asked me whether a bishop would not find it easier to go up a mountain in an aeroplane. I foolishly asked him what @@ -2520,7 +2482,7 @@ he said, "a government by the people, of the people, for the people"; some assert that he said, "a government by the people, for the people, of the people." Obviously<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_135" id="Page_135">[Pg 135]</a></span> the only way out is to make a pool and look up Nicolay and Hay. When we are not betting on Lincoln's famous phrase, -we differ as to whether the first words in Cæsar are "Gallia omnis est +we differ as to whether the first words in Cæsar are "Gallia omnis est divisa," or "Omnis Gallia est divisa," or "Omnis Gallia divisa est." We all remember the "partes tres.")</p> @@ -2575,7 +2537,7 @@ ecstasies of false emotion over the hockey team or pretended to see things in Central Park which we never saw. I always think of Central Park with bitterness. We were to write a description of what we saw as we stood on the Belvedere looking north. I wrote a faithful catalogue of -what I saw, and the instructor picked up "Les Misérables" and read me +what I saw, and the instructor picked up "Les Misérables" and read me the story of the last charge over the sunken road at Waterloo. I should have done what one of the other men did. He never went to Central Park. He stayed at home and, looking straight north from the Belvedere, he saw @@ -2718,7 +2680,7 @@ apartment always kept the window shades down. It made the room so cosy."</p> <p>I shook my head. The dimensions of the room were quite disappointing. It was not only small, but there was little wall space, because the architect had provided no less than three doorways which were supposed -to<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_147" id="Page_147">[Pg 147]</a></span> be covered with portières. I presume that architects find open +to<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_147" id="Page_147">[Pg 147]</a></span> be covered with portières. I presume that architects find open doorways much easier to plan than any other part of a room.</p> <p>He was surprised at my objections. There was plenty of space, he @@ -2901,12 +2863,12 @@ the following account of a recent meeting of the Supercollegiate Committee on Entrance Examinations. For the details of the story I am indebted to the able and conscientious correspondent of the Disassociated Press at Nottingham. The discerning reader will have no -difficulty in identifying the persons mentioned. Professor Münsterberg -is, of course, Professor Münsterberg. Professor Lounsbury is Professor +difficulty in identifying the persons mentioned. Professor Münsterberg +is, of course, Professor Münsterberg. Professor Lounsbury is Professor Lounsbury. Professor Hart is Professor Albert Bushnell Hart. Dr. Woods Hutchinson is Dr. Woods Hutchinson.</p> -<p>Professor Münsterberg: The meeting will please come to order. We are now +<p>Professor Münsterberg: The meeting will please come to order. We are now in the first week of October. This fact, which the average citizen has probably accepted without<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_158" id="Page_158">[Pg 158]</a></span> question, has been amply confirmed in an elaborate series of laboratory tests carried on by means of white and @@ -2952,7 +2914,7 @@ the magazines.</p> <p>Professor Lounsbury: Then you agree with me that when a man has something to say he will say it?</p> -<p>Professor Münsterberg: We have an excellent illustration on this point +<p>Professor Münsterberg: We have an excellent illustration on this point in a history paper submitted in the last entrance examinations. In reply to the question, "Name the first two Presidents of the United States," one candidate wrote, "The first pressident was Gorge Washington; his @@ -2972,7 +2934,7 @@ under the necessity of writing Bull Moose history for <i>Collier's</i>.</p> whether the failure to spell and write correctly is a sign of mental feebleness—</p> -<p>Professor Münsterberg: On that point I believe I can speak with +<p>Professor Münsterberg: On that point I believe I can speak with authority. Psychological tests in the laboratory show that the average freshman is as quick-witted to-day as his predecessor of fifty or a hundred years ago. We examined three hundred first-year men from eleven @@ -2993,24 +2955,24 @@ out of the three hundred had tapped the wrong answer. Need I say more?</p> <p>Professor Lounsbury: May I ask how the written answers showed up from the point of view of spelling and grammar?</p> -<p>Professor Münsterberg: They were impressively defective.</p> +<p>Professor Münsterberg: They were impressively defective.</p> <p>Professor Lounsbury: I'm tickled to death. When you cut out bad spelling and grammar, you queer the evolution of the English language. There's nothing to it.</p> -<p>Professor Münsterberg: But take the case<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_163" id="Page_163">[Pg 163]</a></span> of the freshman squad whom we +<p>Professor Münsterberg: But take the case<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_163" id="Page_163">[Pg 163]</a></span> of the freshman squad whom we kept in a hermetically sealed room for twenty-four hours at a temperature of eighty-nine degrees—</p> <p>Professor Lounsbury: May I ask what their language was when they were released at the end of twenty-four hours?</p> -<p>Professor Münsterberg: Truth compels me to say it was something awful.</p> +<p>Professor Münsterberg: Truth compels me to say it was something awful.</p> <p>Professor Lounsbury: But how about the grammar?</p> -<p>Professor Münsterberg: There was no grammar to speak of. They used +<p>Professor Münsterberg: There was no grammar to speak of. They used mostly interjections.</p> <p>Dr. Hutchinson: Finest thing in the world, interjections. Good for the @@ -3022,7 +2984,7 @@ people swear. It's good for the wind. Next time you walk down a step too many in the dark or lose your hat under a motor<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_164" id="Page_164">[Pg 164]</a></span> truck, don't hold yourself back. It's the way nature is safeguarding you against asthma.</p> -<p>Professor Münsterberg: Then it is the consensus of opinion here that the +<p>Professor Münsterberg: Then it is the consensus of opinion here that the psychological and cultural status of our college freshmen is everything it ought to be?</p> @@ -3149,7 +3111,7 @@ the sorrow of the universe, I cannot understand," said Emmeline. "Do you mean to say that the Liebestod does not really carry you out of yourself?"</p> -<p>"It does not," I said. "But when Gadski in Aïda turns to the wicked +<p>"It does not," I said. "But when Gadski in Aïda turns to the wicked Amneris and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_172" id="Page_172">[Pg 172]</a></span> sings 'Tu sei felice,' something in me begins to give way."</p> <p>"It is probably your intellect," said Emmeline.</p> @@ -3643,7 +3605,7 @@ season will convince any one that we are sufficiently far removed from <p>Happily, the material for a systematic examination of the subject is accessible. It is true that we are still without a definitive text of -the Gilbert librettos. For this we must wait until Professor Rücksack, +the Gilbert librettos. For this we must wait until Professor Rücksack, of the University of Kissingen, has published the results of his monumental labours. So far, we have from his learned pen only the text for the first half of the second act of "The Mikado." This is in @@ -3865,7 +3827,7 @@ was treated with conspicuous ability by Euripides. The legal rate of interest in most of the States of the Union is six per cent. The instinct for self-preservation is one of the elementary laws of evolution. Hamlet is a work of genius. Victor Hugo is the author of "Les -Misérables." I thank you.'"</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_216" id="Page_216">[Pg 216]</a></span></p> +Misérables." I thank you.'"</p><p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_216" id="Page_216">[Pg 216]</a></span></p> <p>"Thus equipped, any young man ought to become President in time," I said.</p> @@ -3947,12 +3909,12 @@ Lowell's original design for New York's new County Court house.</p> <p>M. Bergson smiled pragmatically.</p> <p>"A round court house, you say? Suggestive of the Colosseum, with a touch -of the Tower of Babel, and the merest <i>soupçon</i> of Barnum and Bailey? +of the Tower of Babel, and the merest <i>soupçon</i> of Barnum and Bailey? Come then, why not? To me it is eminently just that your architecture should typify the different racial strains that have entered into the -making of the American people. When one observes in the façade of your +making of the American people. When one observes in the façade of your magnificent public buildings the characteristic marks of the Chinese, -the Red Indian, the Turco-Tartar, the Provençal, the Lombard +the Red Indian, the Turco-Tartar, the Provençal, the Lombard Renaissance, the Eskimo,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_221" id="Page_221">[Pg 221]</a></span> and the Late Patagonian, one catches for the first time the full meaning of your so complex civilisation."</p> @@ -3961,7 +3923,7 @@ marble bust of Immanuel Kant just behind him, and lit his cigar. He gazed thoughtfully out of the window. Before him stretched the enchanting panorama of Paris so familiar to American eyes—Notre Dame, the Gare de St. Lazare, the Bois de Boulogne, the Eiffel Tower, the -cypresses of Père Lachaise, the tomb of Napoleon, and the offices of the +cypresses of Père Lachaise, the tomb of Napoleon, and the offices of the American Express Company.</p> <p>"Yes," he said, "one envies the advantages of your multi-millionaires. @@ -3974,7 +3936,7 @@ conservatory, stables, kennels, the opportunities are unlimited."</p><p><span cl <p>"But we have pretty well exhausted all the known styles," I said. "What about the future?"</p> -<p>"Have no fear," he replied. "The archæologists are continually digging +<p>"Have no fear," he replied. "The archæologists are continually digging up new monuments of primitive architecture. By the time you need a new City Hall excavations will be very far advanced in Peru and Ceylon.</p> @@ -4211,7 +4173,7 @@ the sun. But for the moment it's puzzling.</p><hr class="chap" /><p><span class= <h3>(AFTER A-N-LD B-N-ETT)</h3> <p>In the dining-room of her little apartment, from the windows of which -one might catch a glimpse of the Place de la Révolution on a clear day, +one might catch a glimpse of the Place de la Révolution on a clear day, Madame Lafarge was laying the table for supper. She had folded the table-cloth in two. With outstretched arms she held the four ends of the beautifully laundered piece of napery between the thumb and @@ -4717,386 +4679,6 @@ the adoption of the Federal Constitution, etc. (5 vols., Washington, Pennsylvania, near the Maryland border, 85 miles southwest of Harrisburg. 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