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...Book Reviews, however, that the greatest strides seem to have been made. Particularly good is the review signed H. W. B., reviewing Arthur Machen's new book. Mr. Wheelwright is a little too harsh although his harshness may be justified in his criticism of Mr. Beebe's poems. The Book Reviews serve their purpose: to tell us the substance of the book and to influence our selection...
...Papini's "Life of Christ". A gentle raising of the critical eyebrow marks Harvard's reserved surprise at this announcement. In the CRIMSON Bookshelf for November the Community Bookshop states that Harvard's "great interest these days is in the works of the modern sophisticates, Mencken, Nathan, Van Vochten, Machen, Dreisen, and others, that stimulate the critical faculties...
...Princeton, N. J., "shrine of Presbyterianism in America," the Rev. Dr. J. Gresham Machen, stated supply (preacher) at the First Presbyterian Church, was relieved of his position. It was not announced whether or not Dr. Machen's withdrawal was aftermath of the flurry that occurred when Dr. Henry van Dyke, genial Princeton patriarch, protested against the "bitter, schismatic, unscriptural preaching of the stated supply of the First Presbyterian Church of Princeton," gave up his pew, said: "Until he is done, count me out" (TIME, Jan 14). In connection with the release, however, the session of the First Presbyterian Church...
...stated supply" was the Rev. J. G. Machen, Assistant Professor of New Testament Literature and Exegesis in the Theological Seminary. He habitually attacks liberals, saying: "The Modernists believe what the great enemies of the church 50 years ago believed, but they keep the traditional terminology. Their use of the old terminology is dishonorable. They have lost the conviction of the guiltiness of sin. There will be no revival until we have a new conviction...
...stones of Grub Street are still as flinty as they were in Johnson's day, when the adolescent Doctor was forced to hie him to eating-houses where the back of a New foundland dog served the patrons for a serviette. If prizes can rescue some native Arthur Machen from drudgery ? give comparative freedom and leisure for so much as a year to some unrecognized Sherwood Ander son?by all means let us have prizes...