Word: mr
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greenhouses, and organ concert are open to the public at an admission fee of 50?, receipts being divided between five hospitals, two in Chester County, Pa., and three in Wilmington, Delaware. (The conservatories and gardens are open free of charge every week day.) The organ was designed by Mr. Firmin Swinnen, noted concert organist, who plans and executes the weekly concerts at Longwood...
Themes such as death and the beginning of life give Mr. Powys occasion for no mean bit of modern metaphysics. A few of the titles. "The Withered Leaf and the Green" and "The Corpse and the Flea" suggest very much John Donne. At the same time this present-day Aesop keeps his faith with Donne in little thrusts of realism that actually make the reader shudder. All this, as said before, is quite smart: and yet almost as everyday as the "Farmer's Almanac...
...Reading Mr. Morris one gets the feeling of sitting at the feet of a clear minded old campaigner who has one or two good stories to tell. The pages turn quickly, the style is pleasantly homely, the interest glows from one point to another. But its worth as a valuation of Whitman's art, in this reviewer's opinion, small...
...veteran can give to history an occasional genuine first hand touch that is lacking to the general historian, but his comprehension of the greater movements in which he took part is generally slim. And so it seems here that Mr. Morris' interpretation of Whitman is of an elementary nature not to be ranked along side that of younger critics who have been close to their subject only in spirit...
...contemporary local interest to Boston readers is the comment upon the suppression in Boston by a "smug" society of an early edition of "Leaves of Grass" Speaking of this society Mr. Morris has this to say: "They had probably understood nothing of the text but those passages which they alleged to be objectionable. Thus the guest of Emerson and Sanborn and the finest and purest men and women of Boston and Concord, the friend of Tennyson and Longfellow, and of Mrs. Gilchrist was found unclean by an anonymous group who were unqualified to receive the rich message he brought them...