Word: revealed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mysteries of the life beyond death, science will doubtless reveal many clues in time, but one must be distinctly credulous to accept Sir Conan Doyle's criteria in the meantime because he invented Sherlock Holmes. San Francisco Journal
...notably the amusing opening ballad, which should be sung to the obvious tune by a Voice with straw in its throat) have little or nothing to do with "ther drammer" at all. The theatrical streaks are as a whole distinctly below the level of the non-Orphean layers. They reveal a tendency, from which the rest of the material is happily free, that has been adversely commented on by divers other reviewers of divers other issues, and not without justice: a tendency to rather futile inanities which remain devoid of meaning to the untutored reader, and which do not justify...
...Kipling that Kipling need not be ashamed to own it. The Dunsany piece, "Apotheosis and the Peer", strikes this particular admirer of Dunsany as one of the high points in the collection. "A Wessex Tale" is quite Handyesque in tone and manner, though a keener study of Hardy might reveal to the writer the secret of that sureness of touch that makes the consumate artist. Joseph Conrad in the bathtub is almost Conrad's self, and Edgar Masters' cutting edge is in at least one sample of "A Charles River Anthology". I think the honors go to "The Questioning", after...
...there have been hundreds of college men and college women helping in Labrador. You ask me, "What have they done?" As a surgeon I am absolutely convinced of the value of trying to record what we call "end results"--to show actually what has been accomplished, and so to reveal "sloppy" work and work that does not justify itself. If trying to analyze results is of any use to others, they have a right to ask us also to try and do it. For I have found that the college men have really given a lot. Most of them have...
Some of the best prose in the number is contained in the book reviews. All three are robustly and epigrammatically written, and reveal, with many an apt turn of phrase, high powers of impressionistic criticism. The caricature of Max Beerbohm is as successful as many of his own caricatures. The review of "Cytherea" is perhaps too conscious in its "joyous paganism" (the same may be said of the book, I understand), but the concluding remarks on the novel are sound, and the whole is well expressed...