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...amusement. We still fail to find in his heetic, meteoric career anything permanent, anything constructive, or even anything literary. Keats, in one of his letters, speaks of Lord Byron's latest "flash poem", much as Barrie, for example, might speak of Fitzgerald; yet the flash poems of Byron are deep philosophic treatises compared with Fitzgerald's outbursts. Not that every story should be expected to bear its moral or illumine its great Truth...Heaven for-fend!; but certainly something more than the surface flush of artificial fever is to be looked for, in one who pretends to such a reputation...
...tawdry, the false--literature is still an avocation, and always will be. The kind of writing that inspired Stevenson and Barrie, that makes up the sum of the best in literature, is an avocation in the true sense of the word. All of which is a cause for deep satisfaction that Harvard has as yet shown no symptoms of the vocational mania...
...that evidence points in the same direction, is amiss to suggest that the "Coop" take a few more risks in the stocking of their shelves with textbooks in general demand? Then the "plain citizen" whose specialty is not speed would cease to worry about missing out; the four deep, human jam at the counter would be less clamorous; and the lady at the cash register might pass a peaceful...
...Richelieu" has had a lease on the English stage. The melodrama will inevitably complete a full ninely-nine year lease and then, unworthily, gain a renewal. Its life has been long, not because of any particular merits of the play as a drama of character, beautiful verse, or deep significance, but because the part of the Cardinal affords excellent opportunities to an actor. For that reason alone it has survived on the stage, and escaped its deserved fate as a piece for the class-room illustrating the theatrical tastes of our grandfathers that helped, however inconsiderably, in telling the story...
...Professor Burton should occasionally give the least touch to the soft pedal and remember that English should be good even in the deep-loined West. He is quoted as saying: "The way Western young folk go after belles-lettres almost suggests that the support of literature in the future will come from those parts." It is a striking picture that the professor draws; this lust for learning this avid, eager eating up of elegance, this relentless pursuit of the humanities. With exultant whoops the Western young folks gulp minor poetry and major essays, studies, sketches, belles-lettres, no more than...