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First Mr. Hagedorn shows us extracts from such books as "The Winning of the West" and "Hero Tales from American History" which represent the historical background that Roosevelt possessed. Then he turns to the body of the book which he devotes to the "Roosevelt philosophy...
Tsao-Kun, Chili Tuchun War Lord) was active in the background. It was asserted that he offered to buy votes at prices varying with the re- ports from $5,000 to $10,000. A section of the Chinese press contended that the members were entitled to accept the bribes, as they had been unable to collect their salaries. There were, reputedly, some 200 members who simply could not be bought...
...from that. This shy, small, smiling little white-haired man is a volcano of opinions and ideals. He reads The Dial? which is often more than I can do. He follows current writing avidly. He admires the best work of his younger contemporaries, yet, with his background of culture, his fine sense of proportion, he deplores the unnecessary vulgarities that make much of present-day writing. Tell me, readers of TIME, don't you these days turn away from a new "realistic" novel with a certain feeling of weariness? Aren't you nearly ready for a revival of romanticism? Take...
...with a cutlass of pointed wit. He has worked along lines made familiar to the great American audience by Captain Applejack.. He swashes more, however, than did the creators of that popular satire. He dramatizes his burlesque rather than burlesquing his drama. He maintains a beautiful, deep blue background of sea and sky, and salts his situations with oaths and the glitter of daggers at every course...
...story of a highstrung, attractive, weak woman, told as she is reflected in the lives of her various lovers,: is superbly wrought. I can think of no other picture of broken idealism so striking as that of young Neil confronted with the truth about his idol, Marian Forrester. The background of the Middle West of the last century seems thoroughly inconsequential. The story is that of Marian Forrester. Here, surely, is writing one of the most brilliant technicians in American letters...