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...outstanding feature, I agree with the editors, is the Class Poem, 1924, by Oliver La Farge. I wonder whether the author has been reading Edwin Arlington Robinson's poems; certainly he has caught something of that master's pattern and manner, his directness, his vigor, his telling expressiveness. Naturally enough Mr. La Farge has been unable to maintain the exquisite balance of form and substance that makes Robinson's best poems so exactly right, so stark and simple and inevitable; yet when Mr. La Farge falters into prose, his idea gives sufficient impetus to rush the reader along. Without lapsing...
Thoroughbreds. Paternity puzzles in the Theatre are likely to be intricately uninteresting. An absorbing pattern of drama must be sketched to make the spectator care just who is her father. In place of drama, the authors of Thoroughbreds have designed a crazy quilt of odds and ends stitched in from all the parent pieces of this particular...
...employs no plot to give it body, no characters to give it blood and spirit. Its subject is the continent of Africa; and its strangeness proves once more the truth of an ancient apothegm concerning truth and fiction. Written in the manner of a novel and cast in the pattern of a travelogue, it belongs to that obscure hinterland of literature that W. H. Hudson visited in Green Mansions and Defoe, to a certain extent, in Robinson Crusoe...
...opens up are enormous. Inequalities of stature, which have hitherto been almost insuperable obstacles in the way of borrowing other people's clothes, will be smoothed out as though with a flatiron. Dress manufacturing will be standardized, and mail order hourses will be concerned only with width, style, and pattern. Even the annual parade of the street-cleaners will be orderly and level-headed...
...roam the wilds of Whitechapel. If anything, their numbers have greatly increased since the days when the Artful Dodger and his merry associates removed pocket bandkerchiefs from the coat-talls of respectable old gentlemen, and disturbed the waking hours of Bow Street Magistrates. Human nature is still a checkered pattern of blacks and whitos...