{"numero_id": "bm-bmtnaaq-1916-08-12-01", "volume": "bmtnaaq_1916-08-12_01", "ocr_sha256": "834389871e165d317489813d1a4b84cc2a8323365df3b2bf5da9dc4dc2437120", "source_tei": "https://github.com/Princeton-CDH/bluemountain-transcriptions/blob/main/periodicals/bmtnaaq/issues/1916/08/12_01/bmtnaaq_1916-08-12_01.tei.xml", "source_mets": "https://github.com/pulibrary/BlueMountain/blob/main/metadata/periodicals/bmtnaaq/issues/1916/08/12_01/bmtnaaq_1916-08-12_01.mets.xml", "url_numero": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaaq19160812-01", "articles": [{"article_id": "bm-bmtnaaq-1916-08-12-01-c001", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaaq_1916-08-12_01#c001", "volume": "bmtnaaq_1916-08-12_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "couv. 1", "page_fin": "couv. 1", "image_debut": 1, "image_fin": 1, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaaq19160812-01.2.1", "titre_corps": "The contents include:", "titre_sommaire": "The contents include:", "signature_source": "", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 1, "page_imprimee": "couv. 1", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaaq19160812-01.1.1", "debut_caractere": 197, "fin_caractere_exclue": 323, "texte": "The contents include:\nOctave Mirbeau—A Portrait\nSubmarine Vessels\nHerbert Beerbohm Tree—Is He an Artist?\nThe Governor's Poodle"}]}, {"article_id": "bm-bmtnaaq-1916-08-12-01-c002", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaaq_1916-08-12_01#c002", "volume": "bmtnaaq_1916-08-12_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "couv. 1", "page_fin": "couv. 1", "image_debut": 1, "image_fin": 1, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaaq19160812-01.2.1.1", "titre_corps": "Coulton Waugh", "titre_sommaire": "Coulton Waugh", "signature_source": "", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 1, "page_imprimee": "couv. 1", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaaq19160812-01.1.1", "debut_caractere": 182, "fin_caractere_exclue": 195, "texte": "Coulton Waugh"}]}, {"article_id": "bm-bmtnaaq-1916-08-12-01-c003", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaaq_1916-08-12_01#c003", "volume": "bmtnaaq_1916-08-12_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "[903]", "page_fin": "[903]", "image_debut": 3, "image_fin": 3, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaaq19160812-01.2.2", "titre_corps": "After Verlaine", "titre_sommaire": "After Verlaine", "signature_source": "Ernest Dowson", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 3, "page_imprimee": "[903]", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaaq19160812-01.1.3", "debut_caractere": 139, "fin_caractere_exclue": 565, "texte": "After Verlaine\nErnest Dowson.\nA ROUND were all the roses red,\nThe ivy all around was black.\nDear, so thou only move thine head,\nShall all mine old despairs awake!\nToo blue, too tender was the sky,\nThe air too soft, too green the sea.\nAlways I fear, I know not why,\nSome lamentable flight from thee.\nI am so tired of holly-sprays\nAnd weary of the bright box-tree,\nOf all the endless country ways;\nOf everything alas! save thee."}]}, {"article_id": "bm-bmtnaaq-1916-08-12-01-c004", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaaq_1916-08-12_01#c004", "volume": "bmtnaaq_1916-08-12_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "[903]", "page_fin": "905", "image_debut": 3, "image_fin": 5, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaaq19160812-01.2.3", "titre_corps": "A Historical Survey", "titre_sommaire": "A Historical Survey", "signature_source": "Alfred Ernest Keet", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 3, "page_imprimee": "[903]", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaaq19160812-01.1.3", "debut_caractere": 567, "fin_caractere_exclue": 5219, "texte": "Submarine Vessels\nA Historical Survey\n\nIT is hard to say, at this late day, where man got the idea\nof a submarine vessel from. It may have been sug-\ngested to him by that leviathan of the deep, the whale,\nwhich, although a warm-blooded mammal, is able to re-\nmain under water for long periods. Or perhaps its\nevolution is traceable to the human diver, whose art is\na world-old one. It is more than likely, however, that\nthe submarine vessel owes its origin, like all other great\ninventions, solely to necessity—the necessity of every mari-\ntime country is under of protecting itself from armed in-\nvasion at sea.\nBe this as it may, it is remarkable that from a very\nearly period the brain of man has been incessantly at work\ndevising submarine boats—a period far antedating Jules\nVerne's imaginary \"Nautilus,\" whose terrible destructive-\nness he so entertainingly described in his \"Twenty\nThousand Leagues under the Sea.\" Indeed as far back\nas 332 B.C. something of the sort was used and with some\nsuccess by Alexander the Great at the siege of Tyre; and\nit is common that from time immemorial\ndivers, with almost fish-like qualities, have trod the ocean\nbed gathering pearls and sponges. That Cleopatra em-\nployed divers is a matter of history. Thus Shakespeare,\nto cite one authority:\nCharmian. 'Twas merry when\nYou wager'd on his angling; when your diver\nDid hang a salt-fish on his hook, which he\nWith fervency drew up.\nCleopatra. That time!—O times!—\nI laugh'd him out of patience ...\nThese primitive methods of submarine navigation were\nat last improved upon; but it was not until A. D. 1150\nthat we find any recorded use of submarine vessels in war.\nIn that period, so it is related by an Arabian historian, a\ndiver entered Ptolemais during a siege by means of a\nsubmarine apparatus. Then nearly 400 years passed, and\nToledo, Spain, produced one in 1538; and in 1588 came\nBourne's plunging apparatus. Other attempts at sub-\nmarine navigation quickly followed; but the first real\nsubmarine boat was invented in 1620 by a Dutch physician.\nCornelius Van Drebel who in that year launched a sub-\nmersible navigable boat, followed by two others in one\nof wfiich James I made a trip. These boats were built\nof wood and made water-tight by a casing of greased\nleather, being propelled by twelve rowers whose oars\nwere jointed where they passed through the ship's casing\nin a moveable watertight leather holder. They carried\npassengers in addition, and made journeys of several hours\nsubmerged 15 feet.\nIn the next hundred years, Norwood, the two priests\nMersenne and Fournier, Barrie, Bishop Wilkins, De Sou,\nBorelli, Doligny, John Holland (who patented an engine\nfor use in submarine navigation), Evance, Lethbridge and\nSymons were inventors of subamrine craft, Father Mer-\nsenne being the first to use a metallic hull and adopt the\npisciform shape for his boat, which carried two cannon.\nAbout this period, in 1721, a diving apparatus was in-\nvented in England by Halley; and in 1763, Day, of Yar-\nmouth, while testing his submarine vessel in Plymouth\nHarbor, lost his life through his inability to rise to the\nsurface after a dive. This was the first casualty in the\nhistory of this invention.\nAt length, in 1733, an-American engineer, D. Bushnell,\nconstructed one turtle-shaped, and to him belongs the\nhonor of fabricating the first submarine boat that could\nbe navigated under water under any conditions. Three\nyears later, during the War of Independence, Bushnell\nhad an ideal opportunity to test the fighting qualities\nof his boat, and, with the permission of General Parsons,\nattempted to blow up an English- frigate in New York\nHarbor. He was towed one night by two rowing boats\nto a point near the vessel, but when he reached its side\nhe found that he could not affix his torpedo because of\nthe ship being copper sheathed. He was carried by the\ncurrent away from his intruded victim, and later his mine\nexploded harmlessly, causing great consternation among\nthe British fleet.\nIn 1780 and 1796 there were other attempts, and in\n1797 Robert Fulton, whose inventive brain had long recog-\nnized its possibilities, offered his plans for a submarine\nto the French Government. A committee reported favor-\nably, but nothing eventuated. After like unsuccess with\nthe Dutch, Bonaparte gave him 10,000 francs to exprei-\nment with, and in 1800 he built the \"Nautilus\" (and later\nthe \"Mute\"), a cigar-shaped vessel. After numerous\ntrials on the Seine, during which she remained under\nwater once for five hours, the French authorities decided\nagainst her, and raised so many objections that Fulton,\nin disgust, threw up the project and turned his attention"}, {"page_pdf": 4, "page_imprimee": "904", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaaq19160812-01.1.4", "debut_caractere": 16, "fin_caractere_exclue": 6479, "texte": "in America, to the problem of steam navigation, winning\nin that field immortal renown.\nA persistent pioneer in submarine navigation was Wil-\nhelm Bauer who, getting his idea from the dolphin, built\na dolphin-shaped boat at Kiel in 1850. After offering his\ninvention vainly to Austria and England, he tried Russia,\nwith the result that in 1856 \"Le Diable Marin,\" built\nat St. Petersburg, was launched at Cronstadt. Not\nproving successful, he finally had to leave Russia in great\nhaste. Bauer relates that while submerged he could hear\npeople's voices on the surface some distance away, proving\nthat water is a good conductor of sound.\nIn 1859 Delany, of Chicago, built one, but it was too\ncomplicated for practical use; while too cumbrous was\n''The Intelligent Whale\" built in Brooklyn. Next year\ncame \"Le Plongeur,\" the invention of Bourgois and Brun,\n139 feet long.\nDuring the Civil War the submarine first demonstrated\nits value as an engine of war. In 1863 the \"Keokuk,\"\na type of submersible monitor built in New York, fought\na duel with Fort Sumter, and, though riddled with shots,\nescaped without the loss of a man. But she sank the fol-\nlowing night. This curious monster, 164 feet long, was\nboth a ram and a monitor, and resembled a huge floating\nbattery. She was constructed of pipe and palmetto logs,\nher armor being railway iron, and her iron turrets were\nsix inches thick. In the same year the Confederates at\nCharleston used a submarine boat against the blockading\nFederal squadron. It was cigar-shaped, built of boiler\nplates and propelled by eight men at a maximum speed of\n4 knots, and when advancing her top was level with the\nwater. While being tried out she sank and failed to\nrise on three occasions, her crew perishing each time.\nThe fourth time she was successful in her manoeuvers,\nreached the \"Housatonic,\" and sank her—but at the\nexpense of her own life. This type of submarine was\ncalled a David, and a number of them were built at\nMobile.\nGoubet, of Paris, in 1882 built one of the first effective\nsubmarines, and he was followed by Mordenfeldt with\na boat that surpassed all previous attempts.\nThe \"Katahdin,\" launched in 1893, and which cost\nour government close to a million dollars, had a length\nof 251 feet, and was one of the most successful of her\ntype.\nFinally when the twentieth century dawned, man's\npatient tenacity began to bear fruit, and submarine war\nvessels of great practical use were produced by Italian,\nFrench, Russian, German and, in particular, American\ninventors. Nearly all obstacles were overcome, and an\nalmost perfect craft evolved. For propulsion electric\nstorage batteries, oil, benzol, gasolene and even steam\nwere used, and, still more marvelous, eyes to see what\nis going on at the surface while submerged were provided.\nThis miracle was accomplished by the invention of the\nperiscope, by whose aid the navigator, while beneath the\nsurface, can see anything above. He is thus enabled to\nattack and destroy a hostile ship, or carry out valuable\nreconnaissances.\nAmong the first successful submarines in the United\nStates was the \"Argonaut,\" designed by Simon Lake of\nBaltimore. She made trips on the Patapsco, Md., in\n1898, and later traveled 200 miles under the surface of\nLake Champlain. Another Lake ship, the \"Seal,\" built\nin 1911 , was 161 feet long, had six torpedo tubes and\ncarried 10 torpedoes. Her surface speed was 14 knots,\n9 1-2 while submerged.\nIt was in 1893 that France first began to use sub-\nmarines; and from 1901-4 quite a number were built of\na larger and improved type. Her \"Circe\" and \"Calypso\"\n(1905) were 155 feet long, and with Diesel oil engines\nmade about twelve knots per hour on the surface, when\nsubmerged electricity was the motive power. In 1909 a\nnumber of small submarines were built from designs of\nM. Labeuf. At the preesnt time France probably has\nmore of these \"sea-devils\" than any other nation. Most\nof these boats, and the early American boats, were of the\nfamous Holland type, so-called from the name of their\nAmerican inventor, John P. Holland, who designed the\nfirst submarine, the \"Holland,\" acquired by the U. S.\nNavy Department, in 1897. This boat was followed by,\na number of similar but improved types, seven of which\nwere launched 1901-2. It is surmised that American\nsubmarines were used by Admiral Togo to destroy the\nRussian Fleet in the Sea of Japan in 1905.\nAmong the requirements of the first Holland boat was\nthat it should make 8 knots per hour for 6 hours, and\nreach a depth of 20 feet in one minute after receiving\norders to dive. By 1910 the United States had 27 of\nthese torpedo boats, some of which have made good\nrecords. The U. S. submarine \"Narwhale\" has made\ntwo clean hits out of four at a distance of 2000 yards\nwhile traveling at full speed and 40 feet below surface.\nIt may also be noted that the small U. S. submarine\n\"Petrel\" during the Spanish War easily destroyed two\nSpanish torpedo boats.\nThus after hundreds of years of tireless and dangerous\nexperiment, man's ingenuity won the day, and we have\nonly to read the war despatches of the past few weeks\nto realize that the submarine war-ship, as a great designer\nof them (John P. Holland) once wrote, is \"a weapon\nagainst which there is no defence.\"\nPorpoising her way, unperceived, towards her prey,\nthis submarine snarpshooter fires death and destruction\ninto the very vitals of a supposedly invulnerable dread-\nnought, and escapes unseen.\nDefects it may still have, but the submarine had\ndemonstrated beyond a doubt its deadly effectiveness as\na war engine. Whatever defects there are will doubtless\nbe removed before long. A cardinal defed: is the inability\nof the submarine to see further than a few yards when\nsubmerged; its restricted radius of action and low speed\ncome next, and then there is to be considered the cramped,\nconfined life of the crew which is very enervating.\nBut there is little doubt that these obstacles to perfect\ncontrol and swift action will be overcome, and in the\nfulness of time perhaps a more peaceful field of activity\nand usefulness for submarine craft may open up when\nthey are used for commercial travel, marine surveying,\nand in locating and removing sunken treasure.\nA notable instance of the fear in which submarine war\nvessels are held was on the occasion of the sinking of the\n\"Aldabaran\" in the North Sea by the Russian war-ship\n\"Kamschatka\" a few years ago. Mistaking the \"Alda-\n*baran\" for a submarine, the Russian commander signaled"}, {"page_pdf": 5, "page_imprimee": "905", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaaq19160812-01.1.5", "debut_caractere": 16, "fin_caractere_exclue": 1315, "texte": "that he was being attacked by submarines at the same time\nfiring upon the Swedish steamer, sinking her.\nNotwithstand the perfection ot which the submarine\nas a war engine has been brought it is the opinion of\nnaval experts, among them Admiral Mahan, that the\ngun will always keep ahead of it, and recent events in the\ngreat European war now raging have to some extent\njustified this opinion. They are at best a frail craft.\nOnly a short time ago (Nov. 23) the German submarine\nU-18 was rammed and sunk by the British destroyer\n\"Garry,\" and all her crew, with the exception of one man\nwho was drowned, captured. Built in 1912 the U-18\nhad a radius of action of 2000 miles, a surface speed of\n14 knots, and 8 knots while submerged. On the other\nhand and offsetting to some extent this expensive sub-\nmarine mortality was the reported success of a German\nsubmarine in sinking the British superdreadnought\n\"Audacious\" on October 27 near the Irish coast. This\n$10,000,000 giant, it is believed, was destroyed by one\nof a fleet of submarines from Wilhelmshaven which\nlaunched two torpedoes at her, the second taking effect.\nSo long as these invisible marine sharpshooters prowl\nthe sea for the dreadnought, battleship or other surface\nwar-ship eternal vigilance is the price of safety.\n\nAlfred Ernest Keet"}]}, {"article_id": "bm-bmtnaaq-1916-08-12-01-c005", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaaq_1916-08-12_01#c005", "volume": "bmtnaaq_1916-08-12_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "905", "page_fin": "908", "image_debut": 5, "image_fin": 8, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaaq19160812-01.2.4", "titre_corps": "Octave Mirbeau", "titre_sommaire": "Octave Mirbeau", "signature_source": "After the French of J. Flax by Renee Lacoste", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 5, "page_imprimee": "905", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaaq19160812-01.1.5", "debut_caractere": 1317, "fin_caractere_exclue": 5186, "texte": "Octave Mirbeau\n\nHTHE first time I saw Octave Mirbeau, or rather heard\nhim, was amid the smoke of a public gathering at\nthe time of the Dreyfus case. He presided at a meeting\nof some sort, in some quarter or other. He impressed me\nas being firm and energetic. Prominent eyebrows, a pow-\nerful jaw, neck as strong as a bull's and a spiky moustache\nhiding a thin mouth—the whole arrangement of those\nsharply defined features gave.him the impressive appear-\nance of a retired sea captain or a wrestler at a country fair\nside-show. To this must be added the brutal accent in\nwhich he addressed his audience, his jerky gestures, and his\nbluntness. That evening Octave Mirbeau revealed him-\nself to me as a bold, aggressive, formidable fighter.\nSince then I have met him at Durand-Ruel's and at\nvarious exhibitions. He was no longer a fighter. On the\ncontrary, he appeared tired and as if disillusioned. He\nseemed weighed down by a great sorrow. It flashed across\nmy mind that in his limpid eyes, deep behind the arch of\nhis brows, I saw an expression of unspeakable suffering—\nlike a reflection of destpair, of irremediable nostalgia.\nAll Mirbeau seems revealed in these two attitudes. A\nfighter he certainly is; his opponents know something\nabout that. But he is also a creature full of sensitive-\nness and of foibles. This formidable controversialist, who\nthrows himself body and soul into the fray, who rushes at\nhis enemies and deals savage blows right and lift, possesses\na young girl's shyness, a lad's tenderness. He adores\nflowers, but above everything he loves birds, always pro-\ntecting them from harm. Do you recall Isidore Lechat, a\ncharacter in one of his plays, who no sooner appears on the\nstage than he causes a poor bird to be frightened away\nfrom his garden? Mirbeau intended this action to sym-\nbolize all the vileness and meanness of the human race.\nFor him, a man who doesn't love birds, becomes classified;\nhe is a brute, a criminal capable of any sort of felony.\nMirbeau also loves dogs, with the exception, perhaps of\nthe horrible little beast of the \"Calvaire.\" Lastly, he\nloves men, notwithstanding his great knowledge of them\nand the fact that he has become a master in the art of ex-\nposing their foibles and their vices. But he loves them\nwhen they are helpless, miserable, wretched; when they\nstimulate in him fraternal—compassion, when they join\nthe ranks of life's vanquished ones.\nAnd all this hidden love, all this tenderness, which he\nconceals so awkwardly—fearing ridicule, perhaps,—but\nwhich shows, nevertheless, in all his works; all this store\nof sentiments, aspirations, and human desires, brotherly\nand helpful, which he represses and stubbornly forces\nback—all this explodes suddenly and becomes anger, in-\ndignation and vehemence. Then occurs one of those mar-\nvellously lucid and incisive pages, thundering with im-\nprecations, laden with anathema and bubbling impetu-\nously with rage and scorching words. His writing be-\ncomes a torrent that has broken loose, carrying away all\nthings before it and sweeping onward in a tumultous\nstream of fierce invective, daring metaphor and audacious\nparadox. Such pages are masterpieces in which one feels\nthat the author has poured out some of his strength ans\nblood, and in which he has allowed his heart, filled with\nlove and pity, to overflow.\nThe particularly ignominious period in which we live\nknows few writers of this stamp. Our present day literary\nand artistic domesticity faithfully reflects our spirit of de-\nmocracy and universal suffrage. Artists and writers, who\nwere formerly knaves and courtesahs, are to-day the flunk-\neys of the triumphant bourgeoisie.\nAmong this herd of servile and timorous persons, all\ncraving enjoyment and all seeking adulation, the man of\ngenius develops painfully; a temperamental writer has a\nhard time asserting himself. If he merely mumbles, the"}, {"page_pdf": 6, "page_imprimee": "906", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaaq19160812-01.1.6", "debut_caractere": 16, "fin_caractere_exclue": 6720, "texte": "alarmed flock turns around ready to check him. If he\npersists, if he faces his adversaries returning blow for\nblow, if he attacks them, then a boycotting is organized\nand silence prevails; he is left to struggle in the dark and\ndie of inanition.\nTwo forcible writers have resisted and have main-\ntained -their opinion: Octave Mirbeau and Leon Bloy.\nThe former early acquired the faculty of asserting himself\nand of conquering public indifference. He commands re-\nspect. His genius was so obviously real that it became\nimpossible to deny its existence.\nBeing talented while those surrounding him had to strive\nto achieve mediocrity; speaking the truth while others\nwere spreading lies; giving proofs of daring, audacity, en-\nergy and revolt, while this herd of frightened sheep could\nnot bleat and cower, Mirbeau incurred an unrelenting\nhatred. But instead of attacking him openly, they re-\nsorted to defamation and backbiting; his errors and his\nidiosyncracies were slyly pointed out, and great efforts\nwere made to belittle him and drag him down to their\nown level.\nHis errors, his idiosyncracies—we are all aware of them\n—but, shall we confess it? We love Mirbeau even in his\nshortcomings, and perhaps still more on account of these\ndeficiencies which bear proof of his temperament and prob-\nably imperfections without repining and without partial-\nity. This will permit us to take the man bodily and lift\nhim up on a pedestal.\nMirbeau was born on February 16th, 1850, in Tre-\nvieres, Calvados—a fellow countryman of Flaubert and\nBarbey d'Aurevilly. His father was a physician at Reg-\nmalard in the Orne, where Mirbeau grew to manhood.\nHis mother was a charming and sweet woman, whom he\nadored and from whom he inherited, presumably, the gift\nof human understanding. There was also in the family\nan uncle, the terrible Abbe Jules, whose story has been\ntold by the author.\nMirbeau has given us, in his works, the history of his\nfamily and that of the first years of his life. We meet\nhis father in the \"Calvaire\" and in \"L'Abbe Jules,\" to-\ngether with the descriptions of the valleys of the Orne, of\nthe fields and forests of Bresnin, and of Isigny \"with\npoplars, apple trees and the sea as a background,\" where\nthe writer's childhood was spent in close contact withr na-\nture, we follow him to the Jesuits of Vannes in his \"Se-\nbastien Roch,\" in which he shows us how a child's intellect\nbecomes warped.\nAfter leaving college, he vacillated; should he take up\nlaw or medicine? Finally, he decided to study law and\nwent to Paris. Then the war of 1870 occurred. Mirbeau\nbecame a militia lieutenant in the army of the Loire.\nAgain in the \"Calvaire,\" we find a marvellous chapter in\nwhich he describes his horror of war and massacre.\nThe first year in Paris was spent in a restless fashion;\nthe young man had not as yet found his vocation. He\ntried his hand at writing. A friend of the family, Dugue\nde la Franconnerie, put him on the staff of the Ordre, a\npaper which had just been established. Mirbeau's first\narticle was a lyrical essay on Manet, Monet and Cejanne,\nand full of terrible insults addressed to the Academicians.\nThis article cost him his position as art critic, but he re-\nceived in exchange that of theatrical critic. In a few\nmonths he had consciously torn to pieces a number of\nartists and had caused all the theatrical managers to wage\nwar on the paper.\nAfter this, according to Edmond Goncourt, the author\nspent four months smoking opium; \"he has met some one\njust returned from Cochin, China, who has assured him\nthat everything Baudelaire has written on opium is pure\nhumbug, and that it produces, on the contrary, a very\nsoothing effect; the enticer gives him a pipe and a Cochin\nChinese dress. For four months behold him in a flowered\nrobe, smoking pipe after pipe, as many as a hundred and\neighty a day, eating nothing or perhaps only a boiled egg\nevery twenty-four hours. He reaches a state of com-\nplete depression and confesses that opium, which produces\na certain cheerfulness when smoked in small quantities\nloses this power after further indulgence and brings about\na sense of emptiness accompanied by sadness, a sadness\nbeyond description. At this stage, his father, who believes\nhim to be in Italy, finally finds him, tears him away from\nhis robe and his lodgings, and takes him for a few months\ntrip through Spain.\"\nMirbeau soon recovered and was appointed deputy sher-\niff of Saint-Girons; and what a sheriff he made! Being\nfrankly reactionary, he never left off striving against and\nmaking fun of the Republicans. He scandalized the ad-\nministration by his bluntness and his paradoxical behavior.\nIt didn't take him long to abandon this position and to\nreturn to journalism. He joined the staff of the Gaulois.\nMeanwhile he developed a strong passion for a certain\nwoman, and, wishing to make some money, he became a\nbroker on the Exchange. He managed successfully to\nmake as much as twelve thousand francs a year. A cruel\ndeception ensued. Determined to shun the world and to\navoid women, he set off on an eighteen months' sailing ex-\npedition in a fishing boat he had purchased in Brittany.\nOne cannot accuse Mirbeau of not being passionately in\nearnest. Perhaps it is because of this earnestness that his\ndefects become apparent. With the same whole-hearted-\nness in hatred as in love, he is off like a shot. He doesn't\nreckon with circumstances, contingencies or motives. He\njudges, condemns or exalts. He is given to quick and in-\nexplicable impulses and to unexpected passions which sud-\ndenly give way to abruptness and disgust. He makes one\nthoroughly understand Maupassant's phrase which seems\nto have been written for him: \"On given days I experi-\nence such horrors towards existence as to desire death;\non other days, however, I enjoy life after the manner of\nanimals.\"\nOnce on the warpath, nothing can stop him; he goes\nstraight on with beautiful courage. Whether in the field\nof art or in that of politics, he contributes the same amount\nof uncompromising ferocity; even if he has to change his\nattitude, he never ceases being sincere. Thus it is that\nwe saw him, who was once anti-Semitic, later on taking\nDreyfus' side. It is likely, however, that association with\nArthur Meyers justified his anti-Semitism.\nOne has seen him take up the cudgel of some artists,\nthe majority of whom are really great. But he is no\nart critic. He judges with too much prejudice. He can't\nanalyze coolly, nor examine details. He perceives a work\nof art, he appreciates its value, and knows admirably how\nto express what he feels about it. But when he is mis-\ntaken, he remains just as excessive, and so the impression\nproduced is painful. In his book, 628-EB, Mirbeau tells"}, {"page_pdf": 8, "page_imprimee": "908", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaaq19160812-01.1.8", "debut_caractere": 16, "fin_caractere_exclue": 1971, "texte": "us that after admiring a Rembrandt for a whole day, he\nfound but one artist whose work could rank next to it;\nhe named Van Gogh. This is going a little too far,\nespecially if one realizes that such a statement is not made\nfor the empty pleasure of appearing paradoxical. Further\non he sets Mayol, an inheritor of the Etruscans, against\nthe powerful Rodin and places him above the latter.\nWhat he does in the criticism of art, he does equally\nin the novel, the theatre and the press—he exaggerates.\nLes Amants, a playlet directed at love, becomes a music-\nhall farce because of its efforts to be extremely comical.\nLes Journal d'une Femme de Chambre and les Vingt et\nun Jour d'un Neurasthenique are full of disconcerting\npassages and exaggerated interpretations—just as, in\n628-EB, when he judges the intelligence of animals by the\ndiligence they display in keeping out of the way of auto-\nmobiles, he decides in favor of the wild geese of the Roman\ncapitol.\nBehold! Those are the defects of this dynamic and en-\nthusiastic writer, enthusiastic even in his scepticism and\ndisgust. Here they are, those defects which are as\nenormous as his good qualities, and which we love because\nthey are Mirbeau's defects and because one must either\nlove or reject him entirely.\nPutting aside his peculiarities, his voluntary brutalities,\nhis affected bad manners, Mirbeau is the most human and\nconscientious writer. One feels an immense sorrow in\nhis pages which sometimes turns into anger and sometimes\ninto irony. All sufferings and weaknesses attract him\nand move him to pity. Still he is the most lucid and\nsuccinct writer, deliciously poetic and brutally realistic.\nSome people might find this panegyric too excessive.\nTo us it feebly expresses our admiration for Mirbeau.\nOur best excuse lies in the difficulties besetting the task;\nto speak of Mirbeau, one ought to have at one's command\nMirbeau's own art of speech.\n\nAfter the French of J. Flax by Renee Lacoste"}]}, {"article_id": "bm-bmtnaaq-1916-08-12-01-c006", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaaq_1916-08-12_01#c006", "volume": "bmtnaaq_1916-08-12_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "905", "page_fin": "905", "image_debut": 5, "image_fin": 5, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaaq19160812-01.2.4.1", "titre_corps": "Octave Mirbeau. Original Drawing by A. Delannoy", "titre_sommaire": "Octave Mirbeau. Original Drawing by A. Delannoy", "signature_source": "", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 5, "page_imprimee": "905", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaaq19160812-01.1.5", "debut_caractere": 5188, "fin_caractere_exclue": 5235, "texte": "Octave Mirbeau. Original Drawing by A. Delannoy"}]}, {"article_id": "bm-bmtnaaq-1916-08-12-01-c007", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaaq_1916-08-12_01#c007", "volume": "bmtnaaq_1916-08-12_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "907", "page_fin": "907", "image_debut": 7, "image_fin": 7, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaaq19160812-01.2.4.2", "titre_corps": "In Memoriam: James Whitcomb Riley", "titre_sommaire": "In Memoriam: James Whitcomb Riley", "signature_source": "", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 7, "page_imprimee": "907", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaaq19160812-01.1.7", "debut_caractere": 16, "fin_caractere_exclue": 49, "texte": "In Memoriam: James Whitcomb Riley"}]}, {"article_id": "bm-bmtnaaq-1916-08-12-01-c008", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaaq_1916-08-12_01#c008", "volume": "bmtnaaq_1916-08-12_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "908", "page_fin": "908", "image_debut": 8, "image_fin": 8, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaaq19160812-01.2.5", "titre_corps": "Love, Let us Live in Fairyland To-day", "titre_sommaire": "Love, Let us Live in Fairyland To-day", "signature_source": "Edward H. S. Terry", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 8, "page_imprimee": "908", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaaq19160812-01.1.8", "debut_caractere": 1973, "fin_caractere_exclue": 2642, "texte": "Love, Let us Live in Fairyland To-day\nEdward H. S. Terry\nI OVE, let us live in Fairyland to-day:\nOur modest home shall be a palace fair,\nAnd you a princess with long golden hair,\nAnd I the prince who comes the spell to stay.\nWhat strange adventures shall beset my way\nBefore I find your winding marble-stair\nWhere magic roses make a drowsy air\nTo dull the knights, ere they engage in fray!\nBut with Love's charm (The Witch knows naught\nof this!)\nI shall not* falter, though her wild green eyes\nDaft lightning, and, with an enchanting hiss,\nShe try her best to keep me from the prize;\nI shall go on and free you with a kiss,\nAs she goes in a smoke-puff toward the skies!"}]}, {"article_id": "bm-bmtnaaq-1916-08-12-01-c009", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaaq_1916-08-12_01#c009", "volume": "bmtnaaq_1916-08-12_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "908", "page_fin": "908", "image_debut": 8, "image_fin": 8, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaaq19160812-01.2.6", "titre_corps": "The First Violin", "titre_sommaire": "The First Violin", "signature_source": "Omaha (Nebraska", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 8, "page_imprimee": "908", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaaq19160812-01.1.8", "debut_caractere": 2644, "fin_caractere_exclue": 2936, "texte": "The First Violin\nOmaha (Nebraska)\nA H, those last notes still quivering on the air\nPassionately deep and soft!\nIs there but one in all that gaudy throng,\nThat drink and feed and laugh such stupid laughs,\nWill wrap himself in silence and stand by\nFeeling the master's soul breathe in the song?"}]}, {"article_id": "bm-bmtnaaq-1916-08-12-01-c010", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaaq_1916-08-12_01#c010", "volume": "bmtnaaq_1916-08-12_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "908", "page_fin": "908", "image_debut": 8, "image_fin": 8, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaaq19160812-01.2.7", "titre_corps": "Misericordia or As It Will Happen", "titre_sommaire": "Misericordia or As It Will Happen", "signature_source": "Cat's Paw", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 8, "page_imprimee": "908", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaaq19160812-01.1.8", "debut_caractere": 2938, "fin_caractere_exclue": 4153, "texte": "Misericordia or As It Will Happen\nCat's Paw\nCHE had loved him once sometime ago. Lately she had\nseen him very seldom.\nThey were talking about him: about his financial em-\nbarrassment. She only said: \"Oh,\" and she thought of\nmany others who were bad off.\nThey said: \"He has debts and he will hardly be able\nto pay them. He will have to leave the city. Goodness\nknows where he is going to and what he will do for a\nliving.\"\nShe said: \"Poor boy\" and thought, \"why should I\nbother with such sad thoughts?\"\nThe others continued to discuss him and one laughed\nmaliciously: \"He always was a snob. He wore the best\nof linen and silks in the summer. Now he will have to\ndo with ordinary shirting.\"\nAnd she shuddered: his soft white skin will be irritated\nby rough materials? His sensitive small feet without\nsilk? . . . she could have cried—.\nIt seemed to her that her lips felt soft smooth skin and\nshe couldn't bear the idea that his tender flesh should\nsuffer.\n• • • • •\nShe telegraphed to his late haberdasher and ordered\nsome of the most expensive and wonderful underwear\nsent to him anonymously.\n• • • • •\nThe haberdasher applied the money against—what he\nconsidered—a bad account of his once distinguished cus-\ntomer."}]}, {"article_id": "bm-bmtnaaq-1916-08-12-01-c011", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaaq_1916-08-12_01#c011", "volume": "bmtnaaq_1916-08-12_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "908", "page_fin": "909", "image_debut": 8, "image_fin": 9, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaaq19160812-01.2.8", "titre_corps": "The Governor's Poodle", "titre_sommaire": "The Governor's Poodle", "signature_source": "W. Azow ; Translated by Guido Bruno", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 8, "page_imprimee": "908", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaaq19160812-01.1.8", "debut_caractere": 4155, "fin_caractere_exclue": 5577, "texte": "The Governor's Poodle\nBy W. Azow.\n(Translated by Guido Bruno)\n\"\"FIE governor's poodle was promenading on the streets\nof the city. He was no different from all the other\ndogs and therefore the citizens did not notice him at all.\nIt was his bad luck that the City Dog-catcher came along\nand spied him, and as he hadn't a license—not at all\nastonishing for a dog that belongs to a governor—he\ngrabbed him without any hesitation.\nThe Dog-catcher had seen a brute without a dog-collar\nand he exclaimed: \"Hullo! didn't our good Governor\nprohibit dogs without licenses on our streets?\"\nAnd like an Indian lasso-thrower, he captured the dog\nwith his rope and a few minutes afterwards the poodle\nwas in the Dog-catcher's bag.\nThe poodle didn't even make a sound but his proud\nbearing worried the Dog-catcher.\nHe observed how a few of the other dogs in the wagon\nhad jumped at the newcomer, ready to bury their teeth\nin his skin; but the poodle barked very gently into the\near of the wildest of his aggressors, and they all kept\nquiet and remained in the remotest corner of the wagon\nin respectful silence.\n\"Something is wrong,\" thought the poor intimidated\nDog-catcher. \"I must ask the policeman what this all\nmeans.\" \"Officer,\"he called with a rather timid voice,\nHe took off his hat after a policeman had answered in-\ndignantly his call and inquired what the noise was about:\n\"I caught a poodle but perhaps the dog belongs to the"}, {"page_pdf": 9, "page_imprimee": "909", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaaq19160812-01.1.9", "debut_caractere": 16, "fin_caractere_exclue": 3948, "texte": "Police Commissioner or maybe it is the property of a\nGeneral—\n\"Let's see how he looks,\" replied the policeman and\nleaned over the wagon. \"This one? Oh, you fool! You\nbelieve a General would have a shabby dog like this one?\nGenerals have Airedales or Russian hounds . . . and\nno Police Commissioner would own a dog like this . . .\nI am very well acquainted indeed with the dogs of all\nour police officials.\"\nFrom a nearby house door emerged a janitor and seeing\nthe poodle, he respectfully removed his £ap.\n\"What is the matter with you?\" asked the policeman\nsurprised. •\n\"This is the dog of the governor,\" was the janitor's\nsolemn answer.\nThe policeman seemed to feel the ground rocking under\nhis feet. \"The dog of the governor? And you have\ndared to catch it! Release him immediately, you\nscoundrel!\" And he gave the Dog-catcher such a punch\nin the jaw that the cap flew off his head. The Dog-\ncatcher did not reply. He did not even dare to say a\nword of protest and with trembling hands he opened the\ndoor of the wagon.\nThe policeman tried to attract the attention of the dog\nby whistling. \"I shall send *him home in a cab,\" he said.\n\"Oh, you confounded dog! how do you dare to let out\nthis poodle without a license,\" sounded the voice of the\npolice sergeant suddenly. \"Don't you know the police\nregulations?\"\nThe policeman seemed perfectly helpless and studdered:\n\"This is the dog of the governor . . .\"\nHis superior officer laughed heartily. \"You darn fobl,\ndo you believe that the governor's dog would be strolling\naround the city all alone? The dog of the governor is a\nsuperior being and always has a lackey or a chamber-maid\nas a servant. . . . Anyhow there isn't much t