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Significant in modern American literature is the reappearance of the South to dispute with the uncouth West and the effete East the attentions of aspiring writers. Two recent works in different fields of literature which have won prizes in competition with hundreds of others, have both dealt, by singular coincidence, with the provincial picture-esqueness of Southern life. In "Hell-Bent Fer Heaven", the Pulitzer prize play for last year, Hatcher Hughes presented a light comedy in a remarkable setting among Southern mountaineers. In the November issue of "The Forum" is published that magazine's prize short story...
...final chapter, "Experiences in America," obviously transcribed from a careful diary, "gives greetings" to Tolley's U. S. friends and, though somewhat overspattered with the first person singular, should help the book sell. Tolley's countrymen may feel that this chapter smacks of the alibi for its author's repeated failures abroad; the U. S. friends will find its humor well-meant but embarrassingly weak...
...cannot, unlike Alice, recall any adventures--no, we must find the Carpenter and shed another tear. . . . Swallowing hard, we escape from the prologue to the editorial page. What, O Lampy, Ibis, Blot! What has become of the magic pen? Where is the gentle flow of easy banter and the singular style that once outran alike sophomoric itchings and threadiness of subject? Such a bare veneer of it is the first editorial; and the rest, indeed, somewhat less than three paragraphs of silence. The style of Lampy has always been traditional. It must always be so; it must be perpetuated...
...wild charges that the murder of Mrs. Evans was the work of Agrarians have proved false. Three ignorant criminals are guilty in the case which moved the Mexican Republic. . . . The coincidence that the name of this unfortunate lady has been closely connected with the Cummins affair gave a singular aspect to the case. Moreover, the assassination of a woman advanced in age is a disgrace sincerely lamentable and has been felt by all public officials and the greater part of the Mexican family...
...Mercury's table of contents invariably includes three or four names wearing Ph.D.'s at their tails, letters boastfully included by Mr. Mencken among the virtues and credits of his performers. And again he has done a singular thing. He seems to have discovered some lost tribe of white professors, a warring tribe who truss up their gowns and take the field against the sacred bulls of American letters, arts, sciences...