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...mother who cared in a detached but positive way for her three sons. Of these early days Sherwood Anderson tells with simplicity and understanding. He draws great characters in his slow, involved, rhythmical way. Yet the greatest character is himself, the artist struggling against the philosopher, the doer struggling with the dreamer. This is a book everyone should read. It is, in my humble opinion, a great piece of autobiographical writing. This was his conflict; this was his problem from the earliest days. He essayed heroism in the Spanish War, being of the stuff of his father, who dreamed dreams...
...BLOOD?Harold H. Armstrong? Harper ($2.00). Dr. Wellington Dennison McNicol was a doer ? go-getter ? a red-blood ? from his youth up. Handicapped at the start by poverty, illegitimate birth and the surroundings of a decayed Canadian village, he never faltered in his ambitions? to marry the girl he wanted, to make money, to be a Great Man. And, like an energetic person he achieved his aims. Middle age found him wealthy, married to a girl far superior to his original intended, and the father of a family to carry on the red-blood tradition...
...blatant Curley, rejected as Mayor, assail Peters as the candidate of "Harvard College and the slums"? If Curley ever slept at a hobo lodging house and chopped wood for his breakfast, it is not of common report. Peters is different, more of a doer than a talker, a getter of information at first hand. Not soon will his old friends stop chaffing him about his adventure to see for himself how the "down- and-outers" were treated at the "institution" known as Wayfarers' Lodge...
That which is done may not be undone, even by the deepest suffering of the doer. We have that promise which says: "Vergeance is mine; I will repay." But we, for all we may do, cannot repay, not even to the barest fraction. That is the tragedy of justice...
...speakers will be Dean Thayer, Professor Roscoe Pound, and Judge Schofield, of the Superior Court of Massachusetts. Tickets at 50 cents each may be obtained from members of the committee or at the doer...