Word: uncouthness
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...given a formal and appropriate introduction to a stiff New England household which had existed untarnished for more than three centuries: we are allowed to sit at the luxurious table of an unpolished but kindly Irish financier who had survived two panics and who now entertained a host of uncouth "hangers on" at his mansion on Fifth Avenue; we are given a glimpse of the unbounded patriotism that swept over the country at the time of the Spanish American War; and in a splendid bit of appreciative characterization we are allowed for a moment to be on intimate terms with...
...people too, from these intimate, if unconventional vantage points. One feels very "knowing", and not a little thrilled at the experience. Mr. Lyons is a "collector of favor able British types", using favorable in the sense of correct and current. The new landed aristocracy, gross as beer barrels and uncouth as hedge hogs, comes in for a bit of trenchant panning. And the Horatio Bottomleys of Sussex are flayed with but little less vigour...
Here is a slender volume, exquisitely printed, containing twenty-six poems--the one from which the book takes its name and twenty-five lyrics of amazing craftsmanship and power. It is called, unnecessarily. "Priapus and the Pool" Uncouth., essentially Roman divinity, Priapus seems of late to have gained many followers far afield both in literature and music. But those who grub in books for the unwholesome or the obscene (Vice Commissioners take note!) will be deeply disappointed by the sheer beauty of these poems. The title is inappropriate. The poems themselves are as lovely as any love-lyrics I know...
...Lincoln's "Tryst" is the most satisfactory poem in the magazine. I don't know precisely what it means, but I like its swing, its vigor, its easy rhymes, and in fact everything about it except the use of the word "unshaven", which lends an uncouth effect to an otherwise pisturesque description. "The Stockbridge Elms" by Mr. Rogers is charming, and I take it that the strange punctuation in the reviewer's copy is not Mr. Rogers' but the printer's. (One of the rewards of the reviewer, by the way, is that the Advocate comes to him in uncorrected...
...stories, "Pete La Farge" by Mr. Ernst is notable as a triumph over limitations of space. Though but a trifle over three pages long, it lacks scarcely one of the properties which the current practice of our best ten-cent magazines proves helpful toward securing publication. Local color, uncouth dialect, primal passion, heroic resignation, a moral struggle, and a savage fight march in perfect order to an artistically vague ending. A fit companion to "Pete La Farge" is "The Morrigan." Mr. Schenck piles on lurid horrors with the ungrudging hand of love. Beside his sketch, Mr. Proctor's clever "Page...