Word: hazlitt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...encumber the knees of gentle souls who prefer their own lamp light to the colder luminaries of the winter heavens. No better book for such a purpose, no more delightful, distinguished, and never dull--to be precise, let's suggest that David McCord is an excellent essayist in the Hazlitt manner with a touch of Benchley at his best...
...Coles Philips would be right to suggest this as a Christmas gift, and the author of the Copeland reader is right in including an essay from it among the lore of his Christmas gift. "Oddly Enough" may well be the first of a series not alone reminiscent of Hazlitt and Sterne and Addison and all the others necessary to make this review "literary" but even suggestive of the avowed success as a colloquial essayist of one David McCord...
...books that are read? There must be a deal of truth in tales of the ocean's monotony, for one "wiper's" list ran thus: Froude, "Life and Letters of Erasmus". Kipling's "Captains Courageous", Russell, "Select Essays", Hazlitt's "Table Talk", Shakespeare's Histories, with excerpts also from Tennyson and Coleridge...
...true, as Hazlitt remarked, that no young man thinks he shall ever die, and it is natural enough that he should not worry very much about a dubious here-after; but still "young Harvard" is not altogether sworn to materialism, and is willing to admit that things spiritual ought to play a greater part in undergraduate life. If a memorial chapel would encourage that side of life, we should "speak up" for a memorial chapel. But, as we remarked in a sentence which the editor has wisely avoided quoting, we do not believe a new chapel would have any such...
...rather as a raconteur with a dash of Hazlitt and Lamb, than as a protagonist of conservatism and taut galluses that Mr. Lyons is interesting. "The Merry Wait" is one of the most finished of the stories, and the songs the Wait sings to spread Christmas cheer deserve framing or something better. This...