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...Dreiser Tells of Old Sam'l Clampitt's Junk-Yard, Etc. The Story. These 38 prose sketches of New York-the New York of Chuck Connors and the unsophisticated Bowery and the old-time bread-line-range odd corners of the city and exhume most curious figures from the dust of the first decade of the century. The Log of A Harbor Pilot describes the tossing existence of that strange race of minor vikings, veteran pinochlers all. The Michael J. Powers Association portrays the glad-hand life of a typical East Side boss-derby-hatted ruler over...
What voyages may be undertaken on this curious pleasure cruiser! What a pity that Gelett Burgess and Theodore Dreiser cannot be given adjacent cabins and sent off for a good long argument to the Malay Peninsula. I should suggest that Dr. Frank Crane and H. L. Mencken he included in that party; then, to complete it, Ben Hecht, D. H. Lawrence and Justice Ford. What a happy time they would all have! Seriously, what could be better in warm weather like this, than a shipload of conveniently opposed viewpoints, outside the three-mile limit, with a fair breeze...
...irritating criticism of Dreiser and others--that Americans cannot think--is partly supported by facts. The automatic tool, in the use of which a man repeats one motion over and over, has proved a powerful agent for fostering sub-normal intelligence--and strangely enough, really puts a premium on under-developed minds. The normal or highly-educated man does not perform mechanical tasks as expertly as the half-wit, so the latter flourishes and multiplies...
...Dreiser: The Titan...
Bookman--"The Fetich of Form and Some Recent Novels," F. T. Cooper '86; "Theodore Dreiser's 'Sister Carrie,'" H. G. Rhodes...