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...Calverton's thesis is, as he claims that American literature has at last broken away from a slavish imitation for English models, he is in all likelihood right. If on the other hand it is what it actually seems, that the American writer has been liberated from the prejudices and snobberies of middle-class society, his proofs are sadly convincing...
...Calverton is primarily a polemic and, like many of his kind, he stretches and overstates his facts to make his case more, plausible, thereby losing what over strength there may be in his argument. In "The Liberation of American Literature" he makes a rapid survey of literary endeavor in this country before the twentieth century, and with few exceptions brands it all as bourgeois and "un-American." It does not occur to him that, even if this, were true, the middle-class is after all sufficiently numerous to deserve literary expression, and the Unites States of the eighteenth and nineteenth...
...Friday, April 12 the Reverend John Roach Stratton D.D., pastor of Calvary Baptist Church. New York City, and V. F. Calverton, editor of "Sex in Civilization", will debate at Symphony Hall. Boston on the question. "Is Religion Necessary to Human Welfare" Dr. Stratton will uphold the affirmative, while Calverton, who is an extreme defender of the modernistic school of thought, will argue the negative...
...NEWER SPIRIT-V. F. Calverton -Boni, Liveright ($2.50). This author applies to contemporary letters a new theory of criticism. The approach is sociological, the method scientific. "Revolutions in aesthetics," he says, "are due to revolutions in ideas, but every revolution in ideas is due to a revolution in the social structure." It was the invention of the steam-engine that made people interested in the tragedies of factory girls, the amours of merchants, when only those of monarchs had before satisfied them. His attack is directed chiefly against those critics who subscribe to Stuart P. Sherman's affecting doctrine...