Word: authorizes
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...with which the principal characters are designed make "The Vicar of Wakefield' one of the most delicious morsels of fictious composition on which the human mind was ever employed. We read it in youth and age--we return to it again and again, and bless the memory of an author who contrives so well to reconcile us to human nature."--Sir Walter Scott. Large quarto. Cloth. Decorative cover. Published at $20.00. Constable, Ltd., London. Special Price...
...York Evening Post places Dr. Crofters' book in a list suitable for the Seventh Age of Reading, for those who are post their prime and have reached the age of at least sixty. It takes all my slight remainder of youthful courage to differ from so high an authority and recommend "The Dame School of Experience" to-a much less aged audience. Essays need not so much age for their enjoyment as a conversational altitude of mind; and there has always been enough talk at Harvard, if not real conversation, to justify such a recommendation in this particular case...
...Crofters is too thoroughly imbued with the spirit of the essay to adopt guch violent tactics even of matters of controversial interest. There is, for example, almost no subject, outside of the Irish question, more likely to arouse latent passion that educational theory. Does our author vociferate that the moderns are right and that the older method of hammering knowledge into resistant minds is the only true one? "The Teacher's Dilemma" never raised its tone above politeness, and yet it is of more value than much arguing. The same genial spiral marks the discussion of such other matters...
...doctrine, as Samuel Johnson said of Dr. Blair's "is the best limited, the best expressed; there is the most warmth without fanaticism the most rational transport." VOLUMES CHOSEN FOR REVIEW IN THE CRIMSON'S CHRISTMAS BOOKSHELF December 18, 1920. OUTSTANDING PUBLICATIONS OF 1920. CLASS TITLE AUTHOR PUBLISHER Fiction. Main Street. Sinclair Lewis. Harcourt. Travel. White Shadows in the South Seas. Frederick O'Brien Century. Biography. Theodore Roosevelt, and Autobiography Scribners. Essays. Dame School of Experience. Samuel Crofters Houghton Miffin. Letters. Familiar Letters of William James. Atlantic Monthly. Poetry. Heavens and Earth. Stephen Vincent Be net Henry Holt. Humor. Winsome...
...once said "Produce me your best critic, and I will criticise his head off." He does. But one wonders if this clan does not like it; if the critics, so often feared, or forgotten, by the playwrights, do not enjoy the play the more for the fact that its author neither fears nor forgets them...