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...SEVEN LIVELY ARTS?Gilbert Seldes?Harper ($4.00). This annoying but pertinent book would persuade one that slapstick comedy, jazz music, comic strips and Ring Lardner are the most worth-while contemporary revelations of the soul of America, and that the Krazy Kat cartoons are "the most satisfactory work of art produced in America today." Mr. Seldes, whose present occupation is the more unexpected in that he is known as a critic of the major arts, here takes up the cudgels in behalf of the so-called "lowbrow" products...
...first publishers to leave the old school of partisanship and print both sides of a controversy. He inaugurated and pressed the movement which resulted in the Postal Savings System. He published the first comic strip in the country. He developed classified advertising. In addition, it was he who in 1893 helped to reorganize the Associated Press, put Melville E. Stone at its head, and started it towards the place which it holds today. It was entirely fitting that he should be made a Director of the A. P. by acclaim...
...Significance. That Man is at once tragic and comic, sublime and ignoble, vastly individual yet universally interesting, are maxims of life, and stock for novelists. This book is least concerned with the first given maxim; it would be a greater work if it dealt more with it. It reveals the second maxim subtly and upon the third, it is founded. There is no person created by Mr. Bromfield that is not poignantly individual, and even peculiar. The more his characters assert themselves and the older they grow, the more they intensify themselves. You have never seen John, Julia, Lily...
...sensations on such occasions, when he always gives impromptu speeches. There is his visit to America where he met John Drew, the "Squire of Easthampton and the gardenia of the American stage"; his meeting with the "wistful Charlie Chaplin, who hides the soul of Punchinello beneath the comic rags of slapstick"; and that "delightful, naive and unconceited man, Will Rogers, who will never recover from his surprise and amazement at having been able to put over his rope-twisting chats upon a sophisticated audience...
...POTTERS-A quaintly comic cross-section of the American home, complete down to quarrels and oil investments...