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...Read is intended for a text-book and ought to be in use. It wd. debunk 80% of the idiocy in teaching literature in high-schools and colleges and 81 and one-fourth percent of literary journalists. Literary teaching and criticism ought to get the best stuff to the reader with the least interposition of second-hand yawp. crit/ic
...historical novel of the Russia in which his life has been passed. Two volumes called Bystander and The Magnet (TIME, April 14, 1930 & April 27, 1931) have appeared; Other Fires is the third, next to last. Proletarian novels (say strict Communists) must have no hero to stand between the reader and the hymning of mass achievements. But Gorki's epic novel has a hero, one Clim Samghin, who is the central character in all three books. Even strict Communists should not find him uncanonical, however, for Hero Samghin is no real hero but merely a convenient eyewitness of Russia...
...have been a subscriber to TIME for many years and am a cover-to-cover reader. If I might, at different times, put some of the choice articles into Braille, so that those unfortunates who have lost their sight may also enjoy them, I shall be doubly happy...
...first half-year deals with American writers up through Poe and Cooper, the majority of whom fall into the Colonial period. While such men as Mather, Edwards, and Bradford are looked upon today as boring chroniclers of a forgotten age, the enthusiastic reader can readily find much of worth and even enjoyment in these old pages. True, in this early stage of American Literature there is more than enough of the much feared religious tract or dismal "ideas on the mind," but these may be reconciled by an hour with Franklin and the Gout or Trumbull and his "Tory Squire...
...read "Adventures of Ideas" once will require some months of the careful reader's time (for it should be read in small doses) and to understand and digest it fully will probably take years, even a life-time, but the time will be well spent--such is the reviewer's estimate of the worth of this book. This is distinctly not just another book by just another Harvard professor. It is an event of some importance when Mr. Whitehead publishes a book...