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Throughout the volume is perceptible a vague, directionless groping for something, which is never attained. Almost everyone is disappointed in the end; most of the stories end more or less in mid-air, after stirring up unrest and dissatisfaction in the mind of the sensitive reader. Mr. Anderson suffers acutely from the same Middle-West complex which troubles Mr. Sandburg and Mr. Masters and probably some others. It would be enlivening to hear what the Chicago Chamber of Commerce would say if it should ever come across some of his descriptions of Chicago scenes and life. They are like nightmares...
...around and through the page. His phrases are unforgettable and wholly unique. Whether or not he has the gift of the inevitable word, he at least can always find the unexpected one. Cummings is intrusively frank, self-consciously courageous, flinging his novelties with a somewhat superfluous clamor into his reader's face. Out of his experimentation may come almost anything...
...result which the reader of these annual homilies upon business deduces is that while 1924 should be prosperous, still we must not expect a boom or borrow too heavily at the bank...
...with the opinions of individuals all over the nation on two important questions: prohibition and a plan for world peace. It would be hard to over-rate the importance of these two questions; and they have both been so constantly before the American people that even the most inveterate reader of the society columns could scarcely have avoided giving them some thought in the past. Therefore the sense of the body politic as taken in these unofficial referenda should have some weight both upon its own dissenting members and upon Congress...
Happily, all the strenuous Americans herein arbitrarily assembled are dead. Mr. Dibble has nothing to fear in the way of retaliatory protest. But the reader cannot quite escape a not unpleasant tingle of tremulous anticipation observing the trustful juxtaposition of P. T. Barnum and James J. Hill, or Admiral Dewey at bay between Jesse James and Brigham Young. Among the seven names represented between the strenuous cloth covers are one woman (Frances E. Willard); one capitalist (J. J. Hill); one sailor (Dewey); one politician (Mark Hanna); one showman (Barnum); one Latter-day Saint (Young); one bandit (James...