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Concerning Art: "Art has always been recognized as a handmaid of religion. Amid the restlessness, discontent and ugliness of much of our modern habits and of our artificial life, the elements of character which go with true and pure art are needed-the restfulness, serenity, strength and self-command revealed through nature and expressed in the finest characters...
...Amid the babel of conflicting opinions during the past week, on the future probabilities in business, one strong and uncompromising attitude became conspicuous. This was the "bearishness" of Wall Street...
...author's Simon Called Peter- which fact carries either its own invitation or warning. In it Mr. Keable has written "not necessarily what I would wish, but what appears to me, in some form or another, given the natures of Peter and Julie, inevitably and substantially would be." Amid shifting scenes- Africa, England, Spain-there is the same shifting conflict of will, purpose and desire as in the earlier book, the same religious controversialism, finishing with an unexpected and startling denouement...
Another foreigner was run out of the village amid a hail of sticks, stones and mud. And one Miss Harmon, who had accompanied Mr. Six, was hit on the head with a stone and sprained her ankle, running from the Goddess of Mercy...
...Significance. The book is another outbreak, amid the general epidemic, of sketches of a much-written-about generation. While highly colored (as is inevitable in this type of account) with the author's personal predilections and prejudices, it is nevertheless readable, frank, humorous, and not, perhaps, more egotistical than need...