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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...upon the basis of generally accepted scientifically demonstratable truths. To bridge the charm between philosophy and religion, one must, however, as Mr. Spaulding points out, take flight from the solid earth, and to pronounce upon the success with which he had done this must be left to the individual reader. Dr. Brown's volume "Beliefs That Matter," is on the other hand written purely from the standpoint of Christian theology. With the subtitle, "A Theology For Laymen," it contains, for example, subchapters on "The Lost Sense of Sin and What to Do About It," and "What the Bible...
...keep track of, in their meanderings over the earth and heayens. The gods mix with the ladies, and the goddesses with men, and who is a god of the first water and who is an honest-to-God man is too difficult to perceive for an average-minded reader like your reviewer...
...author has limited his study of Hardy's work. His selection merits praise; and the book is of superlative profit to the reader who is familiar with Hardy's writings. The volume contains numerous quotations from the novels and poems discussed. This device is happy, for Hardy stands forth as his own witness, admirably aided by the pertinent comments and keen criticism of Mr. Braybrooke, who reveals a deep sympathy and understanding...
...Williams, Kenneth Burke, Hart Crane, and Jean Toomer, to resolve the future. Mr. Munson writes these appreciations with un- derstanding, but in a workable argot, at once colloquial and technical, that is not, in its strict attention to the details under consideration, designed for the pleasure of the casual reader...
...artful vignettes though they often are, are such weak voices crying in dissonance with the other weak voices in a wilderness of theory and abstraction that the significance which Mr. Munson doughtily reads into them approaches an amusing incongruity. Nor are his admissions of faults an encouragement to the reader to seek out his writers, or to seek in them a progressive future. As a critical discussion of these authors, Mr. Munson's book is extremely capable; but in its advertised aspect as a standard setting moulder of the coming literary decade, "Destinations" seems completely inconclusive