Word: readers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Glenvil," by Mr. Burlingame, cries for compression, for composition in the painter's sense, the focusing of detail on the central figure and suppression of irrelevancies; "The Cursed of Apo," by Mr. George Seldes, is too unrestrained, too full of shrieks. Tragedies both, they both fail to stir the reader's sympathy possibly because they did not in the first place stir the writer's sufficiently...
...Green's philosophic poem nowhere reaches the power of its inspiring phase. In it the reader passes through a fog-wrapped, lifeless sea rather than through one of aimless action. The story called "The Cross Roads" takes us over an equally uninteresting land route. We may perhaps read to the end to discover whether the unconscious man may be the murderer's victim recrudescent. We are not greatly gratified at the final revelation, since it has been intimated that the notices are everywhere. Mr. Rogers' personages are more amusing in their names and their slang than in their craft...
...Crothers is the author of several books, among which are: "The Gentle Reader," and "The Endless Life." He received the degree of D.D. from the Divinity School in 1899, Litt.D. from St. Lawrence in 1904, and from Princeton...
...Madonna" is a sonnet which does not transmit to the reader the emotion under which the writer so evidently labored. The Spenserian stanza by Mr. Cummings, "Summer Silence," is excellent...
...Harvard Engineering Journal for January is a number all of whose articles are of interest to the general reader as well as to men in engineering...