asanovas Heimfahrt
30. Sunan box 4/11
of
Author of Her Fatner's House.“them a
eir
quence.
The
the
ture of
Casanova Old
42
event, 1
igh
through
and Shoptorn
other ch
sell
Amercan:
gh¬
endowmer
importanc
Schnitzler Bases a Tragedy
hin
reader, he
CAfANOVA‘:
of Decay on Memoirs of
the wheels
to await t1
the Famous Aduenturer.
HSMECOMING
lytical bio
proves him
B7 ARTHUIR SCHNITZLER
By HENRY G. HOCH.
CASANOVA'S HOMECOMING, by. Artkur
FAMOU
Schnitzler: Simon & Schuster.
VINDICATED
(ASANOVA, fast falling into mid¬
REIO
BYTHE COHRT
e age, sees Marcolina and
longs to become again the fiery
lover whose eighteenth century ad¬
Noted Wr.
ventures have given the world the
CASANOVAS
most amazing human document in
KMIHOMECONING
Versio
type.
aeann
But Marcolina sees in the frayed
and senile wanderer only an old
A DIFFERENCE OF OPINION
By GE
man with dimming mind, and it is
RAMA, We H
Mukerii: D
this scornful rejection of senility
which brings Casanova his greatest
JOHN S. JUANER
As copiouf
misery on the eve of a great hap¬
Jecretary af tbe Nem York Society
Brahmaput:
piness—his return to Venice, the
for tbe Suppression os Vice, upon
of India p
city of his birth and of his most
daring adventure, the escape from
raiding tbe offices of ibe publisbers:
pen.
the Leads.
Greatest
Delicately' and skillfully Arthur
Casanova’s Homecoming is not
Ramayana,
Schnitzler pictures this tragedy of
only obscene, but consecutively
be read as
decay, and makes quite real the
obscene.“
misery and agony in the mind of ablewar o
the man who once commanded
evolutiög.
beautiful and great women and who
THE OPINION OF.THEIMAGISTRATES.
tenseln ap
ne# is brought to realize by a slip
inations—
of a girl that he is old and shop¬
COURT OF NEW YORK, Feurib Districk
ker ji—it
##rn and no longer even interest¬
carrying
in as an object of love. The. great
Tbe Honorable
unthinkat
Casanova spurned for a young up¬
terrible tr
MAURICE H. GOTTLIEB
start of a lieutenant with a bright,
and hap
new uniform and clanking spurs!
Magistrate
should fir
The tale is, of course, imaginary.
ing as
It was inspired by the 'amous
The book is not to be judged as
Ramayan
Memoirs, and so closely follows
so its obsccnity by the standards of
the sour
their spirit and style that
it can
inspiratic
Mid-Victorian days, but its charac¬
nesile close beside them on the
scale sim
ters shall be judged by the standards
Greek er
Originally published in 1921, the
prevailing at the present time.“
Like
book is again brought out in the
Ramaya
Inner Sanctum Novels, with paper
On October ZZud, 1930, ibe Grand
binding.
lesson 1
Jury, aster due deliberation, refused
intentior
The translation is by Eden and
to indict, ihus finally seitling tbis
Mukerli
Cedar Paul, who have done many
note th
excellent assignments in the field
eigbt-yeur case, confirming ibe com¬
ot German literature.
written
piele vindication of lbe book, ibe
School,
autbor and ibe publisbers.
dramat
BRINGING THE GOSPEL
SIMON and SCHUSTER: Price 31
Mr. Sumner Vs. Arthur Schnitzler
In selecting anthe object öf their moral endeav¬
ors in the fleld of book suppression a dollar edition
of Arthur Schnitzler's Casanosels-Homeseming.
John S. Sumner and the New Yörk Society for the
Suppression of Vice again lay themselves open to
charges of being faintly ridiculous and at the same
time according a deal of gratuitous publicity to
the author and volume against which their efferts
are directed. 11 0
This is Mr. Sumner's sechnd çampaign against
the Schnitzler volume, and it is apperent that his
failure to obtain a conviction against Thomas
Seltzer in 1923 and the exoneration which Casa¬
nova'’s Homecoming' then received ät the hands of
Magistrate Simpson were viewed by him in a purely
Pickwickian light and at onc forgetten. To sup¬
pose that the book should be ary miore offensive in
an edition selling for a dollar than it was in a
more costly volume intended only for the con¬
sumption of litterateurs and book collectors is to
render an extremely low opinion of the less af¬
fluent book-buying public.
At the time of the Seltzer prosecution literary
critics and other experts gave the book a clean bill
of health and the magistrate’s decision at this time
was based on their recommendations. It is scarcely
Fconceivable that the work should have become in¬
creasingly erotic with the passing of time. It is to
be hoped that Simon & Shuster, the present vie¬
tims of Mr. Sumner’s myopic morality, will make a
determined stand in favor of their publication, as
they have announced they intend to do. It will
be at once a service to letters and the bock-buy¬
ing public in general to combat the activities of
what has been termed“an extra-legal society which
has pitted its opinion against the virtually unani¬
mous edict of critics, scholars, men of letters and
Civilized. readers generally.
—rs
30. Sunan box 4/11
of
Author of Her Fatner's House.“them a
eir
quence.
The
the
ture of
Casanova Old
42
event, 1
igh
through
and Shoptorn
other ch
sell
Amercan:
gh¬
endowmer
importanc
Schnitzler Bases a Tragedy
hin
reader, he
CAfANOVA‘:
of Decay on Memoirs of
the wheels
to await t1
the Famous Aduenturer.
HSMECOMING
lytical bio
proves him
B7 ARTHUIR SCHNITZLER
By HENRY G. HOCH.
CASANOVA'S HOMECOMING, by. Artkur
FAMOU
Schnitzler: Simon & Schuster.
VINDICATED
(ASANOVA, fast falling into mid¬
REIO
BYTHE COHRT
e age, sees Marcolina and
longs to become again the fiery
lover whose eighteenth century ad¬
Noted Wr.
ventures have given the world the
CASANOVAS
most amazing human document in
KMIHOMECONING
Versio
type.
aeann
But Marcolina sees in the frayed
and senile wanderer only an old
A DIFFERENCE OF OPINION
By GE
man with dimming mind, and it is
RAMA, We H
Mukerii: D
this scornful rejection of senility
which brings Casanova his greatest
JOHN S. JUANER
As copiouf
misery on the eve of a great hap¬
Jecretary af tbe Nem York Society
Brahmaput:
piness—his return to Venice, the
for tbe Suppression os Vice, upon
of India p
city of his birth and of his most
daring adventure, the escape from
raiding tbe offices of ibe publisbers:
pen.
the Leads.
Greatest
Delicately' and skillfully Arthur
Casanova’s Homecoming is not
Ramayana,
Schnitzler pictures this tragedy of
only obscene, but consecutively
be read as
decay, and makes quite real the
obscene.“
misery and agony in the mind of ablewar o
the man who once commanded
evolutiög.
beautiful and great women and who
THE OPINION OF.THEIMAGISTRATES.
tenseln ap
ne# is brought to realize by a slip
inations—
of a girl that he is old and shop¬
COURT OF NEW YORK, Feurib Districk
ker ji—it
##rn and no longer even interest¬
carrying
in as an object of love. The. great
Tbe Honorable
unthinkat
Casanova spurned for a young up¬
terrible tr
MAURICE H. GOTTLIEB
start of a lieutenant with a bright,
and hap
new uniform and clanking spurs!
Magistrate
should fir
The tale is, of course, imaginary.
ing as
It was inspired by the 'amous
The book is not to be judged as
Ramayan
Memoirs, and so closely follows
so its obsccnity by the standards of
the sour
their spirit and style that
it can
inspiratic
Mid-Victorian days, but its charac¬
nesile close beside them on the
scale sim
ters shall be judged by the standards
Greek er
Originally published in 1921, the
prevailing at the present time.“
Like
book is again brought out in the
Ramaya
Inner Sanctum Novels, with paper
On October ZZud, 1930, ibe Grand
binding.
lesson 1
Jury, aster due deliberation, refused
intentior
The translation is by Eden and
to indict, ihus finally seitling tbis
Mukerli
Cedar Paul, who have done many
note th
excellent assignments in the field
eigbt-yeur case, confirming ibe com¬
ot German literature.
written
piele vindication of lbe book, ibe
School,
autbor and ibe publisbers.
dramat
BRINGING THE GOSPEL
SIMON and SCHUSTER: Price 31
Mr. Sumner Vs. Arthur Schnitzler
In selecting anthe object öf their moral endeav¬
ors in the fleld of book suppression a dollar edition
of Arthur Schnitzler's Casanosels-Homeseming.
John S. Sumner and the New Yörk Society for the
Suppression of Vice again lay themselves open to
charges of being faintly ridiculous and at the same
time according a deal of gratuitous publicity to
the author and volume against which their efferts
are directed. 11 0
This is Mr. Sumner's sechnd çampaign against
the Schnitzler volume, and it is apperent that his
failure to obtain a conviction against Thomas
Seltzer in 1923 and the exoneration which Casa¬
nova'’s Homecoming' then received ät the hands of
Magistrate Simpson were viewed by him in a purely
Pickwickian light and at onc forgetten. To sup¬
pose that the book should be ary miore offensive in
an edition selling for a dollar than it was in a
more costly volume intended only for the con¬
sumption of litterateurs and book collectors is to
render an extremely low opinion of the less af¬
fluent book-buying public.
At the time of the Seltzer prosecution literary
critics and other experts gave the book a clean bill
of health and the magistrate’s decision at this time
was based on their recommendations. It is scarcely
Fconceivable that the work should have become in¬
creasingly erotic with the passing of time. It is to
be hoped that Simon & Shuster, the present vie¬
tims of Mr. Sumner’s myopic morality, will make a
determined stand in favor of their publication, as
they have announced they intend to do. It will
be at once a service to letters and the bock-buy¬
ing public in general to combat the activities of
what has been termed“an extra-legal society which
has pitted its opinion against the virtually unani¬
mous edict of critics, scholars, men of letters and
Civilized. readers generally.
—rs