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...companion piece to "We Live on Relief" in April Scribner's there is an article by an anonymous woman writer entitled "Does the World Owe Me a Living?" More than a description of how the other half lives this article is a revelation of a mode of thinking unknown by those happy with luxuries and oblivious to the sufferings of persons condemned to poverty through no fault of their...
...other hand he found there a state getting on with the business of teaching its children something concrete. While not subscribing to all that is taught, he approves of the courage and determinatio, to impart some definite theory of life;--a mode of education religiously, and at times ethically, denied the public school system in this country...
...word that John Dewey's "Art as Experience", which will be issued next week, successfully breaks down the barriers that have been built up separating the aesthetic from other interests in life, and that its strongest appeal, in their opinion, lies in its treatment of art as a normal mode of experience...
...Motion Pictures, has undertaken to explain the phenomenon on a purely empirical basis, and, since this is a professional matter for him, he carefully eschews facetiousness. Much investigation has convinced him that motion-picture, censorship is due primarily to "the bewilderment of any people confronted with a new mode of expression"; this simple analysis, however, is merely a starting point for the learned Mr. Wilton. a combination of erudition and suspicion has convinced him that there must be something deeper behind it; so 'possibly there was a more sintster significance--the desire of the privileged class to control amusement...
...said, further, that one can find little fault with Mr. Starrett's mode of selection. As far as is possible within 200 pages, he has touched upon all the interesting aspects of the Holmes saga. Illustrators, parodists, actors, imitators,--all come under his facile pen. One must conclude that, if Mr. Starrett has been a little too willing to be naive, his naivete has at least the merit of being understood; and that for the rest, his biography is vivacious and readable...