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VACHEL LINDSAY'S poems (for, generally speaking, they are poems) will make any reviewer search his soul for the private definition of poetry on the basis of which he is supposedly working. They are, contradiction or not, colloquial and affected, at the same time reminiscent of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson, and yet this latest volume of his verse shows that he can still hit down at the root of things in the same manner that has made "General William Booth" and "The Congo" such favorites with both perspicuous readers and amateur reciters...
...Author is arrestingly young, only 25 or so, only three years out of Harvard?a fact which seems to have annoyed certain stiff-jointed metropolitan pundits, who, holding Whitman to be an object for grave veneration, have almost called Cameron Rogers an overweening puppy. But young Author Rogers is not overweening nor has he overreached his powers. He is mature, not precocious?maybe as the result of a cosmopolitan upbringing. He and his brothers were schooled in Switzerland. His summer vacations from college were all spent with the Meynell family in England?authors Wilfrid and Alice and their talented children...
...Theiler, instructor in tropical medicine will act as the official bacteriologist of the expedition. D. H. Snider '21, who will serve in the capacity of botanist and mycologist has already carried on similar work in Cuba and Guiana. Loring Whitman '25, now a first year student in the Medical School will be the photographer. During his Senior year in college he was Chairman of the photographic department of the CRIMSON and is an expert photographer of wild animals and insects. H. J. Coolidge Jr. 27 will accompany the party as hunter and assistant zoologlst. He has been particularly interested...
...unnecessary and inappropriate?for Havelock Ellis is neither sensational nor combative?to suggest, as does his flamboyant biographer, that he is another Leonardo, a Professor, a Nietzschean superman, an Anglo-Saxon Tagore, a full-blooded Shaw, a Carlyle without dyspepsia, "a less unkempt Walt Whitman," "a less distracted Tolstoi" and "the complete anti-Kipling." It appears, simply, that if life is a dance, as Ellis has suggested, then he is one of the greatest, gravest dancing masters, a sane anarchist with a cosmic sense of humor...
...just as England had welcomed the barbarous Whitman, so the U. S. welcomed the "wicked, lewd, scandalous and obscene" Ellis. His six sturdy Studies in the Psychology of Sex have been published in Philadelphia (F. A. Davis & Co.) for the benefit of the legal and medical professions, since 1900. They are technical books by an artist who acquired his technique because he conceived sex to be, not the sole, but the central factor of life. They are the scientific basis for his doctrine of "radiant carnality" In later work (The World of Dreams) Ellis anticipated the Freudian discovery that spiritual...