Word: wrappers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...generally serves but as a background for a subtle parable. Subtlety and power are indeed more evident in these few verses than in most of the modern American poetry we have read. Coming back once more to our friend who writes in red ink on the wrapper, we can supplement his generalities with particulars. For in many of his lines Mr. Wolf strikes chords strangely similar to those touched by Edna St. Vincent Millay and Sarah Teasdale. But always he is masculine as we might expect of one who in a short but varied career has been at different times...
...under commercial influences, it is perfunctory at best, and usually unreliable. A prominent professor, who has won increasing prominence as a critic, seems to act on the principle that indiscriminate praise is a safe pass-key for his reviews; consequently, his authority is quoted on the wrapper of every other new volume, and a collection of these dicta would supply a vocabulary of superlatives...
...minute, Americans are, as we put it, "there". In all that we did the day 'before yesterday, we like to feel that there is a touch of the day after tomorrow. And so, with some regret, I began to read Mr. Hudson's "Abbe Pierre" which, the wrapper modestly asserted, was only a "novel of today". For the first page or two, I wondered if I were wasting my time in the consideration of something no further advanced than the present. Then, upon my awakening consciousness was impressed the realization that I was reading a novel which, in structure...
...Thackeray case contains two first editions of "Vanity Fair," one of them in the original yellow paper wrapper, with the pages uncut, a manuscript of "The Four Georges" in the hand of Charles Poarman, with numerous corrections and additions in Thackeray's autograph, and a presentation copy of "Henry Esmond," given to Charlotte Bronth in gratitude of her recognition of his work. Several pencil drawings by Thackeray complete the selections, which is made from the collection bequeathed to the University by Mrs. Widener from her son's library...