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...effort, every object of human desire, she might have wanted something in life worth striving, worth living, for. She might have found the happiness of life in effort if it had been necessary for her to make any effort. There is also a suggestion that if Blair, the boy she loved, had been able to give her the intellectual companionship of Pelton, her guardian, she might have found in marriage the purpose she sought...
...Vanderlip needs is a punch in the jaw to bring him back to a realization of a proper sense of values." Mr. Vanderlip wrote young Mr. Davison a letter, saying: "I am an old friend and admirer of your father and knew you when you were a small boy, and I was pleased when I heard some time ago that you had determined to serve your country by going into politics. I have no doubt that you believe what you are quoted as saying, for I know that a great many other people lacking information on the Washington situation since...
...marvelous humor, wistful whimsicality and delicious irony of the text have been masterfully transferred into the music. Children enjoy most the passages which eloquently describe the "beamish boy's" conquest of the Jabberwock...
When Owen Johnson was a boy at Lawrenceville, he must have played the part of a boy for all it was worth; likewise when he was at Yale, where it is known that he entered into undergraduate activity and argument with heat. Presently, he must have entered, too, into the life of the world, as his The Salamander bears witness. The F. Scott Fitzgerald of his generation, he has maintained his ability to report manners and customs with humor, combined with insight and decorum as his new novel Blue Blood* proves...
...time it looked as though Owen Johnson was about to become embittered by changes in social custom he notes about him. His The Wasted Generation, although a most popular book, to me, at least, seemed muddy in its psychology; but after a new venturing into boy life in Skippy Bedelle he seems to have sloughed off his coil of weariness and there is renewed vitality of vision in Blue Blood. He has been married four times and lives in the town of his birth in the proper season; in Stockbridge in the summer...