Show I1 I I A RUSSIAN TRAMP AUTHOR II Although Maximo Gorki the Russian tramp who awoke one morning to find I himself famous loves to disappear from the ken of the multitude he need be no mystery says Henry F Keenan writing in the July Literary I Era lie need be no mystery however how-ever for he tells of himself In Kono I valow that he was horn out ldeo f society and for that reason cannot I take In a strong rose ofIts culture I without soon feeling forced to get outside 1 I out-side of It again to wipe away the In i finite complications the sickly refinements refine-ments of that kind of existence I like he confesses to go about In the meanest streets of towns because though everything there is dirty I Is all simple and sincere or else to wander wan-der about on the highroads and across I green fields because that refreshes one I morally and needs no more than 1 I pair of good legs to carry one This lo I the life he depicts seeing with eyes trained to the secrets that millions ignore Ig-nore or lack the sympathy to penetrate I pene-trate This Is the sort of realism the scientist surprlyss by coordinating he relations and Interrelations Of organic 1 I things But even these ordinary things I related with the spirit of participation the subjective insigpt of the tramp take on the lyric tone of Wordsworths pastorals and seem to the reader an Interpretation of old things in a be wllderlngly entlfrallinc new speech Everybody who reads books In France is reading this extraordinary tramp and he has but to appear In Paris to apotheosized as the master of mas I ters II |