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...Cuthbert Wright contributes under the title "The Gospel According to George Moore," a brief discussion of the novelist's daring "The Brook Kerith." The world is probably divided into two groups: the people who are bound to be shocked by the book and the people who are naturally disposed to be deeply interested by it. Mr. Wright is of the latter group. His praise is nevertheless discriminating, and he deals sympathetically with the qualities in the author that enable him to see ancient Syria through modern eyes...
...remarkable sestet with the "Imperial hosts upon disconsolate seas." "The Tree of Stars" and "A Renaissance Picture" by Mr. Poore are both of them charming poems. Perhaps the former is the more exquisite, but the latter rouses our critical attention. It is so strangely in the manner of Cuthbert Wright, youngest of the small group of real American poets, as to make me look again at the author's name. Have we here an example of that imitation of other artists so instinctive and so admirable in the beginner? Or is it possible that the same milieu is producing again...
...poems, the best are those by Cuthbert Wright and S. L. M. Barlow; the worst is Yvonne, by Arthur Wilson. One stanza will explain why, and perhaps induce collectors to buy the Monthly...
...most striking article, by far, in the new number of the "Monthly" is that of Mr. Cuthbert Wright on "The Black Heaven." It deals with typical episodes in the history of black magic from the Middle Ages till the present day, and shows, on the part of the author, considerable knowledge of the subject and imaginative sympathy with the characters described. If exception may be occasionally taken to particular statements (such, for example, as the assumed identity of Bluebeard with Marshall or Retz), these are not matters of importance. Mr. Wright's style has freedom and richness...
...Munger '04, President W. DeW. Hyde '79, Rev. Henry Van Dyke '94, and Rt. Rev. Henry C. Potter '90; 1899, Professor George H. Palmer '64; 1900, the Very Rev. W. H. Freemantle; 1903, Rev. Washington Gladden; 1904, Rt. Rev. William Boyd-Carpenter; 1905, Rev. President C. Cuthbert Hall '97; 1907, Rt. Rev. Charles H. Brent; 1908, Rev. President H. Churchill King '83; 1910, Theodore Roosevelt '80; 1911, Dr. W. T. Grenfell...