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PERHAPS it is a testament to the intellectual vitality of Gertrude Stein that no one has thus far been able to chart her titanic course through the letters of our time. She is herself inimical to critics, and one of her strongest aphorisms insists that the artist stands in need of appreciation, but never of criticism. This has been sufficient to deter many of the faculty; Sherwood Anderson, most apt among her pupils, stylizes, and Ernest Hemingway, imitates, her. In "Axel's Castle," Mr. Edmund Wilson makes some attempt to isolate her peculiar position in the Symbolist movement; he quotes...
Most figures in the literature of our day can be captured among their own certain group of associations, can be identified with a single technique of expression, and a single intellectual basis. But Gertrude Stein, seemingly the most ponderous and immobile of them, has really covered the most ground. In this, her autobiography, she reverts to the limpid, nerveless style which served for the earliest of her books. Not since "Three Lives" has she been so willing to chain herself to the actual meaning of words, to limit her scope so soberly to the common associations which they bring...
...orthodox house and energetically advertised, should be the most popular of her books. It tells her story from Radcliffe to the present. It is bristling with intimate anecdotes of those artistic figures. Pleasso, Matisse, Apollinaire, Marie Laurencin, who have most captured the hearts and imaginations of our time. Gertrude Stein moves with them; she knows the details of their domestic storms, the conflicts in their theories, the histories of their thousand small concerns and enmities; she brings the Katzenjammer Kids to Pablo Pleasso and Fernandes; when they separate the comic strip unites them. And she also knows the story...
...deep, rich humor is the mark which separates Gertrude Stein from the stretches of the lunatic fringe. For her there is no working hour camaraderic in the lusty tradition of Murger; none of the careless, raptural inspiration of his Rodolfo. When the doors of 27 Rue de Fleurus are locked and the last villager has gone; in those sweet hours between midnight and dawn, when even Alice B. Toklas is abed, work, stern and serious, is the portion of Gertrude Stein...
...article states in part, "If the Associated Gas capitalization is a sort of container--a stein, shall we say--then the foregoing evidence shows that there is a good deal of foam in it, for which the public has paid its money...