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...United States," he sums up, "are not merely an enlargement of our European culture, still less a mere branch of it; they create a division of that culture into two?themselves and the rest." In a series of those lucid, convincing and ingratiating chapters of which he is so sure a master, he presents his analysis of our habits and customs, and his reasons for finding them so different from those of the Europeans? particularly of the British, whom less original commentators have always supposed us to resemble...
...adoption. The grave problem of its enforcement has rather tended to indicate that one very important aspect of the question was over-looked in the discussion which preceded the passing of the Eighteenth Amendment. If any question of its desirability remains, common sense calls for a calm and lucid debate. The example which Dr. Butler has set--obviously in defiance of his own best interests--of breaking a restraining silence to utter his honest convictions is one that deserves the respect of even those who disagree with...
JAMES JOYCE: HIS FIRST FORTY YEARS?Herbert S. Gorman?Huebsch ($2.00). A critique of the "most-talked-about man in modern letters" by an admirer who has abandoned the usual claptrap for eloquent and intelligent exposition. It is lucid and comprehensible. One need not necessarily be won over to Mr. Gorman's enthusiasm for Ulysses in order to pay tribute to the competence of this book...
...relation to Dr. Henry Van Dyke of Princeton. He is widely known for his lucid historical and critical writings on art, which include a first-class text on the History of Painting (1894), Art for Art's Sake, The Meaning of Pictures, What Is Art? and monographs on various schools. He is now working on a similar study of Rubens, of whom it is well known that many paintings signed by him were executed by his pupils from sketches by the master...
...sound theory but the world has never been blessed with "a born dramatist" then, for the greater dramatists have almost always been workers in the theatre. His criticisms of books on dramatic technique and on players, production and plays do not seen "desultory" because of the clear expression and lucid writing. Though they are better by far than most of their king, still they lack the permanently endearing qualities of such a book as Shaw's "Dramatic Opinions...