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Throughout the whole book the tone is the same--a tone that is heard but too seldom in these days. The admonition of Sidney to "look in they heart"; Carlyle's "labor"; Emerson's "instincts"; the desire of Arnold for "true and fresh ideas"; all these find a brave echo here. Even to so materialistic a theme as "Criticism in American-Periodicals", can such principles be applied-the principles of clear-sighted and unshaken adherence to faith and judgement. Nor are these principles held in the light of a sort of rule-of-thumb panacea, to be applied indiscriminately...
...Ever since I read Of Human Bondage I have wanted to meet W. Somerset Maugham. Here is a man with bitter truth in his work, with brilliance in his execution, with a sense of grim tragedy and deep irony. Now he is in Manhattan rehearsing a new play. He seldom stops long anywhere. He travels constantly, seeking out the bizarre places of the world, studying people and customs, picking up stray bits of character, strange events, and filling his notebooks generously with them...
...press: " Three young men from Oxford now debating with American university students seem likely to explode an ancient theory- namely, that the British lack wit . . subtle shafts of irony ... the house in merriment . . . seldom raised their voices . . . preferred reason to fervor...
Wheeler's American twist service continually baffled his opponent. He lofted and chopped the ball beautifully, seldom out of bounds, winning his points on Whitbeck's erratic shots...
...probably the only President of the U. S. who. while in office, wore the official shield of the Republic. A scarf pin shield was presented me by a Princeton jeweler. I put it on within a few moments after having taken the Presidential oath in 1912. It was seldom missing from my necktie while I occupied the White House...