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...keen-eyed Reader Weigle enjoy her well-deserved laugh on TIME.-ED. Ann Arbor for Lansing...
Whether they like it or not, U. S. readers-and especially Midwesterners-will admit that The Folks rings true, has no perceptible alloy in its honest realism. Its cumulative power lies in the fact that it is written straight, with no scintilla of satire or sentimental sympathy. Foreigners might object to the almost total absence of ideas in the book. To them a U. S. reader could reply that the Midwest is the U. S.'s backbone, not its brain...
...introduction of the personal element will provide intriguing possibilities of dissection a candidate's personality and character as well as his political ideas. One criticism of this new feature of the Liberal Club's policy appears. Unfortunately in publishing these interviews, no conclusions are to be drawn; the reader is to be left to draw his own inferences from the facts. Though this may be partly necessary to maintain an impartial attitude, it does not seem inevitable. Both candidate, club member, and undergraduate would be better for a frank evaluation by an organization with no votes and no political fences...
...remember those books? In the First Reader you began with "the dog ran," and learned to read words of two and three letters. In the high school, with the Fifth and Sixth Readers, students read Hamlet and Childe Harold. Step by step they mounted the ladder. Each reader was well illustrated and all were equipped with lessons in punctuation, inflection, modulation, and with glossaries and biographical notes...
...this Reader many owe their knowledge of the fact that the name of Abou Ben Adhem "led all the rest." Now, with Caroline Norton, one reads about the "soldiers of the Legion" who "lay dying in Algiers," and then he turns to Charles Lamb's "Dissertation on Roast Pig." How many thousands of youngsters have been fired by Webster's "Supposed Speech of John Adams" and how many have laughed over Hawthorne's "Rill from the Town Pump...