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Lawyer Ernst marshalled an attack upon the character of the Society. He summoned famed writers and artists to testify that the Society "could not tell the difference between filth and literature." Writer Carl Van Doren called the Society "a conspicuous nuisance in the community." Heywood Broun, co-biographer with Margaret Leech (Mrs. Ralph Pulitzer) of Anthony Comstock, said that the plaintiff's reputation was "bad." Artist Rockwell Kent testified that by emphasizing the "filth" in books which it disapproves (notably Jurgen, Casanova's Homecoming and The Well of Loneliness) the Society has boosted sales of such books beyond...
JONATHAN GENTRY-Mark Van Doren -Boni...
Superficially more ambitious, Mark Van Doren's Jonathan Gentry hits the high spots in a 100-year chronicle of a U. S. family. The first Jonathan Gentry, a Londoner, came to the U. S. to get away from the memory of what his wife and his best friend had done to him. He sailed down the Ohio in 1800 and settled in the Middle West. Jonathan Gentry III, his grandson, went to war in 1861 with the 19th Illinois, was wounded, got to be a sergeant, saw his beloved brother killed. After the war he went back...
...Significance. Poet Van Doren seems to say the old stock is dwindling into nothing or losing itself in the maelstrom of the city. The U. S. might have been a Promised Land but its chance is passing, perhaps has already passed...
...Authors. Sylvia Townsend Warner is a country mouse, Mark Van Doren a town mouse. Their view of country people is dissimilar: Poet Warner's satirical, Poet Van Doren's nostalgic. Sylvia Townsend Warner lives alone in her house in England with a big black dog, believes in witches although she has never seen the devil in person. Other books: Lolly Willowes, Mr. Fortune's Maggot, The Espalier. Mark Van Doren, lean and serious onetime literary editor of the lean and radical Nation, has also written Spring Thunder, 7 P.M. and Other Poems...