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...success, but the effort cost her great growing pains. Accordingly Page's cup of political and social success had a sediment of gall and not one, but two, generations misunderstood Delia. The writing is faintly ungrammatical and occasionally droning, but not unperceptive or unsympathetic. Mrs. Sachs is a neo-Tarkingtonian...
...like age who are planning an early career of letters; but it is only right, though possibly unkind, to point out the ominous fact that most early-blossoming geniuses come to a swift and untimely end. The field of music contains the few exceptions. The annals of neo-literature are crowded with the names and obituaries of those whose divine flame turned out to be a flash in the pan. Miss Crane should consider the sad case of Daisy Ashford, and lose no time in procuring a bushel basket...
...deep and lasting. Yet in short space it declined into talk and thence into silence, so that no one remains to write articles, or to urge reformation. The matter of the magazine, therefore, must be imaginative writing, stories, poems, and the like, as it was before the neo-Poseidus, earth-shaking young men were loosed in the college." Thus happily begins the current number of the Harvard Advocate, in an editorial essay singularly reflective and well-grounded in its turn of thought if somewhat humorously crabbed in expression. For those untouched, untroubled souls to whom the phrase "neo-Poseidous, earth...
...came a State banquet given in Buckingham Palace. Two thousand guests were present. It was the first ball to be given in many years. Dancing was strictly a la Victorienne, King George and Queen Mary having displayed their antipathy for modern dancing by banning the fox trot and other neo-terpsichorean frills. The four Sovereigns opened the ball by leading in the formal quadrille d'honneur which has opened royal balls since the days of George III. The remainder of the evening was then filled with waltzes, polkas and the like. According to official report there was no political...
Paris sees the year out with the modernist Salon d'Automne in full bloom at the Grand Palais of the Champs- Elysees. This is one of the five regular annual Paris Salons, and may be called the neo-academic showing en masse of the younger, progressive and cosmopolitan groups of painters, once called "fauves," now broadly classified as followers of Cezanne...