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...these books, magazines and papers are "literature" of a sort, and some one has said, "literature is a criticism of life." If the modern successors of Poe are still popular, there must be a reason for it. If men still want to know that 57 lynchings were recorded during the year 1922, that the Herrin murderers are to be punished, and that two men were tortured in the Mer Rouge outrage, it must be the fault of "life", and not primarily of literature. One optimistic critic offers the suggestion that it is not even a "fault" really. Men read...
...last I have found it: the Novel Without a Plot! Poe maintained that certain dank gardens cried aloud for murder. And murders we have had until the very edgings of the pages turned red. Naturally, the concerse of the proposition should be true. Mr. Hudson has been the first to make it so. Certain bright gardens cry for nothing at all. To be sure, "Abbe Pierre" has a binding thread the romance of David Ware, an American professor "from the department of Ohio", and Germaine Sance, a daughter of Gascony. Yet that is not "Abbe Pierre". For "Abbe Pierre...
...cannot help wondering what Poe would have written of "Helen of Troy, latest vaudeville dance drama" which was recently put on the stage in New York. It is characterized as "fine art and excellent entertainment, swiftly and colorfully telling the greatest story in the world of poetry." Homer alive, and in a nutshell! The age or miracles and--for some of us--scepticism, is not altogether past. And Poe is out-Heroded by the press agent...
...believing him a master of inference. By a similar fallacy, or perhaps for the fun of the thing, he has been consulted by the London police regarding a number of cases, but never with very noteworthy results. Even in the realm of fiction he has not shone analytically as Poe did when he prophesied the conclusion of Dickens's "Barnaby Rudge" after reading the first chapters in serial. Dr. Doyle's opinion, for example, regarding the conclusion of "The Mystery of Edwin Drood," the novel which the death of Charles Dickens interrupted, and his solution of the fictional mystery...
...Years' Decline and Fall of Burbank Gibbon's Holy Roman Empire, not an Empire, Holy nor yet Roman. Diminishing returns, the Tennyson, all Scop DeFoeman. Electra Dryden is the very Kittredge form of oathing upon the Tennis Court. The Double Standard Brann of Clothing is Washington down in the Poe, by Nausicaa. The Maid whose Tragedy emptor caveat a Single Tax on Trade. Plato McMasters Menckenese, out-Donne by Shibboleth, Buncombe, and a bad negro. Aeolus had a breath. Sober, steadfast, and demure is the non sans droit o Holmes, Galahad, and Holinshed, in of Holmes, Galahad, and Holinshed...