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...words; we can smile tolerantly when he tells us that Edmund Burke was a Democrat and "A Vindication of Natural Society" the most sincere expression of his political philosophy; we can, with an effort, keep our gorge down when he says he can never forget a certain line in "Kubla Khan" and proceeds to mangle its beauty by misquotation. But when, after rising in a valiant crescendo of commonplace through pages and pages of the quintessential trite, he comes forth with the astounding conclusion that "Literature is Life," we can only throw down the book and gasp...
...Yorkers with catholic tastes in music who call at the Mayfair Yacht Club after the opera, Dwight Fiske has a peculiarly disdainful opus called "The Pleasure-Dome of Kubla Kahn," in which Manhattan's most aristocratic esthetes are languidly identified with fish and weeds...
...fancy. If perchance, his own dreams grow dull and old there are always those of others who have captured visions and made literature. It is to one of those glorious dreams of beauty and splendor that The Vagabond turns this noon when he attends Professor Lowes' lecture on "Kubla Khan and Charitable" in New Fogg Other lectures...
...Kubla Khan and Charitable", Professor Lowes, New Fogg Large Lecture Hall...
...Kubla Khan and Christabel", Professor Lowes, New Fogg Large Lecture Hall...