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TREATISE ON THE GODS-H. L. Mencken -Knopf...
Just too late to be included in the latest edition of the Papal Index Expurgatorius appears Iconoclast Henry Louis Mencken's Treatise on the Gods. The next Index will certainly list it. For Mencken, "quite devoid of the religious impulse," makes of religion his unholy hobby, traces its history with ingenuity, learning, logic, comes to the conclusion that Christianity is on the decline, is glad of his conclusion. Says Mencken: "Everything that we are we owe to Satan and his bootleg apples...
...University of North Carolina remarked that outside of the fact that the hatless fad was not in vogue here (and that probably on account of the difference in climate) the students here resembled very closely those attending the North Carolina institution. The educator whom even H. L. Mencken likes was also ready to generalize to the extent of stating that all American college students had a marked degree of universality in interests and actions...
...most important expression which the present age has found; it is a book to which we are all indebted and from which none of us can escape." Said Critic-Author Virginia Woolf: "Ulysses was a memorable catastrophe-immense in daring, terrific in disaster." Said U. S. Critic Henry Louis Mencken to Author Francis Scott Fitzgerald: "Why, that book is full of smut!" Says Critic Henry Seidel Canby: "Joyce is a pioneer in the technique of the stream-of-consciousness novel, and very influential. His books, however, lack the control of a great artist." Says Editor Ellery Sedgwick (Atlantic Monthly...