Word: readers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...always convenient, conventional and unassailable. In this way he launches a spirited attack on Mr. Wilson, the Peace Conference, and all who feel like letting the Germans down lightly, in a way that would delight an Old Guard Republican. He leaves no doubt in the mind of the reader as to his political leanings...
...spirited "home Thoughts," Mr. Hood makes skillful use of alternate stress. His poem gives us a number of sharply-etched little pictures of phases of life in the active navy. the reader will remember the line: "The daylight strikes its colors in the West...
...phrase from the exalted to the mediocre. Possibly a simpler form might have left the evident sincerity of the work freer to be felt, but as it stands we may be grateful for the poem. The same difficulty with external form bothers the author of "Ghosts", and the reader is jolted out of whatever enjoyment he might derive from this treatment of an old theme. "The Gallows Thing" is the most satisfactorily executed poem in the number, and rings true as some of the other scattered verse does...
...illustrations in the Versailles Number are excellent, and the poetry and limericks beyond precedent. In the mind of the reader the only unhappy thought is that Lampy may be unable to maintain his standard
...stories "Yestdo" and "The Glory Look". Nevertheless the workmanship of all these is distinctly good, and what is better, the high seriousness of the verse and the evident sincerity of the prose are joined to subject matter of enough interest and importance to seize even a careless reader. One would like to see in McLane's "Nocturne" reminiscences of Sappho, so simple and clear are the picture and the mood reflected therein. Other excellent verses, including two sonnets, some capital book reviews, and an amusing story, "Dolcezzo e Luce in Boston", which touches in desirable fashion on the province...