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Thoughtful commentators like Lord Bryce are no longer read ("too longwinded"). Brilliant specialists like Thomas Beer are chuckled over, then dismissed as satirists ("too clever"). Lewis Mumford steps forward, more penetrating than a Van Wyck Brooks, more coherent than a Ralph Adams Cram, far more mature, mannerly and historical than any Mencken, with a book* that is badly needed. He succinctly, brilliantly yet mellowly, summarizes U. S. culture to date...
What of the future? Mr. Mumford is not one to forget that Whitman apostrophized a locomotive, that Emerson thought a swift transatlantic liner could be as beautiful as a star, that Thoreau enjoyed wind singing on telegraph wires. But machines were only instruments, not manna or masters to these men. So he finds little health in the so-called Chicago realists of today. He sees their renowned leader, Theodore Dreiser, swallowing the drab scene "with a vast hippopotamus yawn"; engulfing, nothing more: no digestion or creation. Philosopher John Dewey he finds serviceable but juiceless, with a mode of expression...
...Author. Lewis Mumford was born in Flushing, L. I., so late as 1895. He attended Manhattan universities, pursuing science and pedagogy. His contributions to a wide variety of publications culminated in an associate editorship on the Dial. Since 1920 he has edited the Sociological Review in Eng land. He acknowledges an "intellectual debt" to Professor Patrick Geddes of India and Edinburgh, whose work in synthetics (making science, especially biology and geography, serve society in town-planning, education, etc.) he began investigating and studying, by letter, in 1916. Already two Mumford books have wide fame: The Story of Utopias and Sticks...
...book, "The Golden Day", by Lewis Mumford, which is, among other things, the application of Irving Babbitt's canons of literary criticism to American civilization what Van Wyck Brooks is willing to call the greatest book of American criticism, and a book that will thrill and depress any self-conscious and curious-about-himself American down to the very bottom of his feet...
...College, Oxford, economics at Yale; Isabella Gordon, Aberdeen and Imperial College of Science, London, Zoology at Stanford; Hilda A. C. Green, Westfield College, London, literature at Pennsylvania; Donald B. Harden, Trinity College, Cambridge and Aberdeen; archaeology at Michigan; Richard L. Lechmere-Oertel, Birmingham, mining engineering at Columbia; Edward P. Mumford, Christ's College; Cambridge, entomology at California; Keith A. H. Murray, Edinburgh, agriculture at Cornell; George S. Pryde. St. Andrews, history at Yale; Clifford B. Purves, St. Andrews, chemistry at Johns Hopkins; Richard A. Robb, Glasgow, statistics at Chicaco; William Rule, University of Durham, physics at Cornell; Howel Williams, Liverpool...