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Significance. The novel is poorly written. Except for its use of the Harding Administration as subject matter, it would be dull-reading. Even as a piece of muckraking, it is unnecessarily exaggerated and crude. However, it stands as one of the few instances in U. S. history where contemporary politics have been used as the basis of a novel. In Europe this type of fiction is no rarity...
...Campaign. "I listened to the keynote speech of Senator Harding. It was long, conventional and dull; but he seemed to be very much pleased with it. ... It [the Republican party] believed 'in American policies at home and abroad.' This was very informing. It might have been interesting if it had . . . expressed belief in Italian policies at home and Japanese policies abroad...
...them." It is to be noted that, although he stayed by this idea, Ibsen answered a very pressing question of New York producers last year, and bids fair to do the same this season; to wit: "What shall we play to stave off what promises to be a remarkably dull season...
...book may cause "various Longfellow disciples" to take umbrage. "Longfellow disciples," if such there be, are not likely to be disturbed by a repetition of what has often been said before. Others, not "disciples," but familiar with Longfellow's life and writing may find the pages of this biography dull, since they offer neither new facts nor a very original interpretation of the old ones. Nor does the form and style of the book seem to add to its interest. There are, to be sure, pen sketches of the externals of the poet's world, which are often vivid...
...with more appealing garments. In its lighter moods biography is being softened into fiction. The purely didactic branch still flourishes and will continue to do so as long as there are great men to provide fitting subjects. But the public is learning that a nonfiction book is not necessarily dull one; and that the most fascinatin heroes are not always confined to novels...