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...small but significant event in recent literary history has been the rediscovery of Bronson Alcott. Until two years ago this genial New England philosopher enjoyed an unread celebrity as the father of Louisa May Alcott, a friend of Emerson, one of the least coherent of the Transcendentalists, a slightly daffy but harmless mystic. Glimpses of Alcott in Van Wyck Brooks's The Flowering of New England exploded these literary myths. Odell Shepard's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Alcott, Pedlar's Progress, gave further proof of their injustice. This week the publication of long sections from Alcott...
...Dating from the New York Governorship to January 1937. with introductions and annotations, a total of 3,493 pages in all. A 14¼-pound shelf-filler, five trunkfuls of vigorous clichés, these handsome volumes have been widely hailed by critics as a successor to the monumental, unread papers of Woodrow Wilson...
...decades U. S. school superintendents turned out overstuffed annual reports. Their tons of fat brown volumes, unread even by the teachers, gathered dust in official archives. Two years ago superintendents made two discoveries: 1) a report that the taxpayers liked would serve political uses, 2) everybody likes the picture of a child more than a statistical table. Result was an epidemic of school picture books that by last week had assumed the proportions of a national movement. Latest of these products to roll from the presses was Your Children and Their Schools, "an informal report to the patrons...
...have sought entry to the bottomless caverns of Widener in search of the priceless riches entombed there. Stack privileges are so monopolized by instructors and graduate students that only a few of the coveted admission cards have trickled down to the mass of seniors. Thus the third estate remains unread...
...ghost of Sir Philip Sidney, most moderns would aim chiefly at finding out: 1) how in his own lifetime that Elizabethan poet-statesman-soldier acquired his extraordinary fame, and 2) why. despite the fact that his prose (Arcadia, Defence of Poesie) and poetry (Astrophel and Stella) are today practically unread and unreadable, and his career no more interesting than that of half a dozen forgotten contemporaries, the aura of that fame has clung intact to his name ever since. Biographers have carefully recorded the facts of his career (better documented, less clouded by legend than most Elizabethans), have noted that...