Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. It is underneath the structure of his stories, behind the titles and estates of his characters, that Author Bennett's genius is to be found. It is a genius shy of formality, making hash of what is conventionally expected of it in the way of dramatic climax, contributing richly at moments when reader and characters are least expectant. Who will may hunt for traces of Lloyd George and Lord Northcliffe in Andy Clyth and Sam Raingo but the wealth of this book lies in the subtle asides of the two fictitious figures and in the host of minor...
...trained geologist recognized that on many pages the author makes no "rigorous distinction between the ascertained facts of geology and of the many speculative considerations" of his thesis; and the author wisely and carefully calls frequent attention to his method of attaining "simplicity of statement," so that the non-geologist will not be misled...
...origin of igenous rocks. No intelligent verdict concerning its accuracy can be made until the many speculations on which it is frankly based have been properly evaluated and adequately tested. The book now in hand is a transcript of a course of semi-popular lectures delivered by its author to a non-technically-trained audience at the Lowell Institute, and it therefore does not contain full statements of the data and reasoning processes which enabled the author to reach the conclusions therein suggested...
...account of this viril character, A. C. Gardiner has included the head of the largest diocese in the Anglican Church in his book "Prophets; Priests, and Kings." The author describes him as "A Bishop with a certain demonstrative greatness and personal magnetism which quicken the desires and touch the heart of the crowd. He is a great bishop too, in the sense that he is a great Christian. Slumming to him has been no ideal diversion; it has been his vocation--his life. He has gone out into Victoria part to meet the Atheists face to face, to answer their...
...method is haphazard and strangely rhythmic, and the result is very fair theatre without being at all stagey. Bound between covers, it runs thin in the reading; but it is so evidently made for seeing and not for reading that this criticism cannot touch the author's craft...