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...morning field, the Plain Dealer has an accidental monopoly. When the Times was founded four years ago (as the Commercial) many a Plain Dealer reader might have switched his subscription, for two reasons: 1) Natural dislike of monopoly; 2) The Plain Dealer's quiescent editorial policy. The Plain Dealer is Democratic but not vigorously so. Its policy has been one of polite self-seeking. But though the Times addressed itself to the conservative, whitecollar, banker-and-his-clients among the Plain Dealer following, it soon turned out to be just a nice little paper with the right idea...
Biography in dramatic or fictional guise is in itself not a form hitherto unknown. Inevitably the reader thinks of Drink-water's "Abraham Lincoln" and Shaw's "Saint Joan", on one hand and Maurois' "Ariel: The Lfe of Shelley" and E. Barrington's "The Glorious Apollo" (Byron), on the other. Indeed, these reminders serve but to convince him more strongly that in the main classifications of artistic form there is nothing new under the sun. Yet Shaw and Drinkwater are not the innovators of dramatic biography and they have discovered but one of its types. Howard has evolved another. Unlike...
...astonishing amount of materials and an exhaustive research among theatrical relics, constructs a beautifully organized exposition, with convenient summaries for those who grow tired of the pageant and frequent reiteration of his thesis that the quality of the drama was always determined by the theatre itself. This the reader is never allowed to forget...
...book he suggests it a single paragraph what he regards as the solution, that is, a League of Nations to which all states are party. Whether or not the reader agrees with the author, he can hardly fail to find the body of the book interesting and stimulating. Mr. Dickinson does himself an injustice when he says that the book will be unappreciated by any but trained minds. Rarely are history and literary charm so well united
...only know from what angle to present his anecdote if it is to give out all its fires, but must understand just why that particular angle and no other is the right one. This feeling of the mastery of the author is almost an invariable delight to the reader of one of Mrs. Wharton's books or short stories. The present volume is in the main no exception, but there is in the present volume an exception. "The Seed of the Faith," story of two missionaries in Africa, lacks that feeling of completeness, of an author writing from inside...