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...wrong, for Haldane Macfall can write. He has an extraordinarily observant eye and an equally effective pen. He has the turn of the epigrammatist, but makes no ostentatious display of it. He has a mental balance that is quite above pessimism-a rare attribute in a realist. Neither moralist nor sentimentalist, he writes a thoroughly first rate novel simply by being an incisive observer with an ironic humor and a measurable amount of sympathy...
Morals. From Germany the Actors' Theatre has drawn a creaky old satire of reformers and produced it with a fine cast in the high hope that it will divert a metropolitan public already much diverted by public moralists. The play employs the not unfamiliar device of staining the moralist with the very ink which he was bent on blotting from the city...
...moralist is entitled to one groan of regret, admirers of scenery must be permitted several sighs of relief. They may now gaze with less glaring obstruction upon the natural beauties of the landscape. The graceful swell of the meadow will no longer be surmounted by pork-and-beans; canned-milk cows will cease to graze the unfertile slopes of New England. Perhaps, under a more rigorous law the defacers of highways may be forced to renounce entirely their motto, "He who rides must read", and in some Elysian future flamboyant advertising will no longer stun the senses of the motorist...
Although modern psychology no longer classifies bellicosity among the original instincts, its phenomenona continue to perplex the scientist and to disturb the moralist. The most conflicting claims are made for war: it is beneficial, necessary, and inevitable, or it is harmful, unnecessary, and willful...
...journalist-moralist, so infrequent in these days when people who live in glass houses have given up throwing stones, has strutted again into public view. From the days of Poor Richard, it has been the ambition of every editor to be an evangelist: not satisfied with guiding, he wishes to misguide.: In many cases, nevertheless, a humanitarian afterthought has squelched or at least veiled the expression of this instinct...