Word: harper
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pages of the current Harper's Mr. Ludwig Lewisolin has continued the battle of Classicism versus Romanticism with a ringing denunciation of the former. He has come running to the defence of the autobiographical impulse meanwhile digging his spurs sharply in the fact of "noble objectivity" as he runs. "Classical" is identified with "barbarism" "romantic" with "cultures." And after this trade at which all dead and lifeless classicists must achiever in their tombs he concludes be nightly. "The old, old controversy between classical and romantic objective and subjective is not so much destroyed as transcended. The function of literature...
...John Brown, white man from "Bleeding Kansas," felt that he was destined to free Negro slaves. He must have a citadel. So, with only 18 men, he captured the U. S. arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Va., and was in turn captured by Robert E. Lee. John Brown was hanged. Fifteen hundred soldiers stood by to prevent disorder. Abolitionists called him a martyr; Southerners, a murderous fanatic. The gap in the Union widened...
SMITH EVERLASTING - Dillwyn Parrish - Harper ($2). Pippa did not prevaricate; all's well with the world. Here is a story which begins and ends on that vast plain inhabited by the innumerable Smiths that you see in the telephone book, the Chevrolets, the shaving mirror-the moderately comfortable, easygoing, unawakened small-bore men and their fussing, darning, worrying, loving wives. Martin and Emelie Smith are as concerned over the whereabouts of a pet pipe, moths in the clothes trunk, the working of the front door latch, the "niceness" of a family party (the only kind they ever achieve...
JESUS - MAN OP GENIUS - J. Middleton Murry-Harper ($2.50). The interpretation of an intensely earnest experimenter...
...HUMAN ADVENTURE (2 vols.): THE CONQUEST OF CIVILIZATION-James Henry Breasted; THE ORDEAL OF CIVILIZATION - James Harvey Robinson-Harper ($10 or $5 each). Scholar-scientists on Man's history since the ooze...