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That they intend to give ample play to their vitriolic pen is evidenced by the writers they have selected to aid them. Carl Van Doren, Theodore Dreiser, James Gibbons Hunneker, "a man who because of his official position cannot sign his name," and a member of the staff of the extinct New York Call (Socialist)--all of them with some bone to pick with "nice people"--have contributed to the first number. Although the magazine will be a review, according to its editors "like every other monthly review the world have ever seen," it will be a review...
Besides this article there is some free verse by Theodore Dreiser; an article on Stephen Crane by Carl Van Doren; letters of the late James Gibbons Huneker; The Aesthete: Model 1924 by Ernest Boyd; an article on Hiram W. Johnson by John W. Owens of the Baltimore Sun; Two Years of Disarmament by "a man who, because of his official position, cannot sign this article"; The Communist Hoax by a member of the staff of the extinct New York Call (Socialist) ; The Drool Method in History by a professor of Smith College; Santayana at Cambridge by Margaret Münsterberg, daughter...
...Significance. Here is a book about a New York which has already become almost as much of a tradition as the New York of The Age of Innocence. The book is written by one of the pioneers of "realism" in America. Dreiser seeks to do for his city what Dickens did for his in The Uncommercial Traveler and in other sketches. The manners are different-the American attempt not quite so successful, on the whole, as the English one. But nevertheless, The Color of a Great City is crammed with a wealth of odd detail, vivid observation and strange information...
...Author. Journalist, editor, novelist, short story writer, playwright, philanthropist, essayist - Theodore Dreiser has been each in turn. He entered newspaper work at the age of 21. After a few months on the Chicago Daily Globe, he became dramatic editor and traveling correspondent of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat and subsequently traveling correspondent of the St. Louis Republic. He was for some years employed in special editorial work for Harper's, Century and other large publishing houses. From 1907 to 1910 he was editor-in-chief of the Butterick publications (Delineator, Designer, New Idea, English Delineator...
...COLOR OF A GREAT CITY-Theodore Dreiser-Boni...