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...dull reading to be done here, but the amount of "good reading" is considerable and requires the type of student who reads easily and enjoys it. Lastly, this is not a field which attempts to straddle two other departments. It is an entity in itself. Its ideal is to portray an epoch in man's development from as many sides as possible; to take a portion of the life of the Past and, as Matthew Arnold said, "to see life clearly and see it whole...
...handled by the St. James players. Although this week's piece deals with the usual scenes of country life, it is strangely enough, interestingly built and fairly void of the made-to-order villagers who usually are intended to typify the rural life. The Boston Stock Company does not portray theatre country-folk; but goes deeper and gives a sketch of typical country life. In fact, one is not once reminded of the slapstick country rube nor is the comic hired man nor the old skinflint, foiled by the gallantry of the brave hero, dragged painfully into the scenes...
When Mr. Simeon Fess, ex-Chairman of the Republican Congressional Committee, attempts to portray the President as a lawgiver and executive of the blood and stature of Lincoln, public opinion is at once skeptical and on the defense. When, on the other hand, The New York World, or Mr. Joseph T. Robinson, minority leader in the Senate, impale him upon a phrase like "the creature of a Senatorial oligarchy," or call him the " synthetic automaton of a few reactionary political doctors who met secretly in a room in the Blackstone Hotel in 1920," public prejudice and the mob's love...
These stories are all constructed to portray one theme,--the human being on the rack; on the rack of physical pain, or anguish of the soul or unattained emotion. They illustrate a self-conscious passion, an examination of all of the details of human passion. In fact they constitute the very summary of all of the elements of the subjective...
...such a change is by no means regretable. The increased possibilities, the easy access to Boston have not changed all the old customs. Rooms still portray personality whether it be through cards on the floor and "Life" on the table or by etchings, old prints and Maxfield Parrish. There are too, here and there, private libraries and even secluded and picturesque "eating houses", if one cares to seek them...