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...proof, Mr. Holmes is saying something, which, even if it lacks the backing of proof or fact certainly has the support that a new idea never has; for it is not a new idea. In his later years Goethe lamented the coming doom of civilization in the nineteenth century and was glad that he was born early enough to be able to avoid witnessing this doom. And in the same way, every decade, before and after Goethe--and before Mr. John Haynes Holmes--has had its prophets of decay. But none of the prophecies appear to have worked out. Civilization...
...that school which did so much to acquaint America with herself. And yet one has the feeling that Granville Hicks was right: the school is one which has disappeared from our literature, and attempts to revive it somehow have not seemed to click. It is a thing of the nineteenth century; and those who try to bring back into reality the scenes and haunts of their youth which they have long yearned to immortalize, are doomed to disappoint a reading world which today seems interested in a different type of American literature...
...will gather that England, peace-loving England, has been quite some time at the task of building up this organization She has. The firm began in 1829. Slowly, throughout the nineteenth century, the firm grew, changed it name, cast its outworn skins, grew fat, prosperous, and highly multicellular through the acquisition of this forpedo works, of that heavy ordnance factory. And then there came along Mr.Basilelos Zachavias...
...Modernism," states Mr. Craig, "may be described as the literary expression . . . of dissatisfaction with the prevailing worship of material success that marked the last few years of the nineteenth century. The young idealist felt himself a spirit thrown by fate into an environment to which he did not belong. . . . Holding himself aloof from the world of reality, the poet went in pursuit of a vague and fugitive phantom of absolute beauty...
John Livingston Lowes, Francis Lee Higginson professor of English Literature, has been granted leave of absence for the second half of next year. During his absence, which he will spend in England, English 78, his course on English poets of the nineteenth century will be discontinued...