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There is one article in this issue that might well have been omitted, in the opinion of this reviewer. Mr. Robinson contributes an essay on Carl Sandburg which seems more in the nature of a bit of scholarly research than material for the Advocate. The article is beyond doubt well written, but it bears an atmosphere suspiciously reminiscent of reports and tutorial labors. The familiar essay seems more in keeping with the spirit of the Advocate than any scholarly treatise on the subject of one of our modern poets. But then, the editors are apparently seeking to publish a well...
...Otherwise he would not have written 698 pages about him. But Mr. Nevins is a respecter of history, a scholar. His Frémont, entrancing, exacting, will not be a dust-catcher on top library shelves. It has put more life in the prairies than any book since Carl Sandburg's Abraham Lincoln. It has harnessed the antics of land-grabbing, gold-greedy pioneers and hot-tempered politicians. It has gusto...
...Carl Sandburg, famed Chicago poet...
...their lives, traveled the highways and byways, sang their songs, died and were forgotten. So, too often, were the songs they sang, simple, singable songs that came from the people and belonged to them. Happily for the survival of the homely, story-telling songs of the U. S., Carl Sandburg, modern minstrel, has changed the order of things. For years he has trekked from one end of the U. S. to the other, reading the rugged poems that have made his name, poems of smoke and steel and corn-husking smarting with truth and vitality. Poems have been first part...
...AMERICAN SONGBAG-Carl Sandburg- Harcourt Brace...