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There are essays on Schiller as an aesthetic theorist, and one on Julien Benda which the reviewer is not qualified to discuss. It is sufficient to say of the book that the ideas advanced are the same, but that the treatment of the new subjects provides engrossing reading. Professor Babbitt's books are always stimulating and thought-provoking, and "On Being Creative" is no exception. If the reader does not agree with him, he will at least gain an insight into the personality of the man whose critical theories are accepted as composing the only original doctrine to come...
...Central, The New York, New Haven, and Hartford, and the Boston and Maine Railroads is a step in the right direction. Practical knowledge will thus be combined with theory in the best possible way. The student will become acquainted with actual problems, with the difficulties of the business. The theorist will be able to understand the practical point of view, and the business man, the theorist's. The course will be able to trainmen for Railroads, not with outworn ideas, but with specific knowledge of the most modern problems. This type of thing may bring about the much needed...
Actually M. Crotti is not an ineffective theorist on canvas. Born in Switzerland 51 years ago, he does not disdain a knowledge of drawing. One canvas, which looks like two Scots fighting with bolts of tartan but is labelled Fishermen, is an interesting arrangement of colors. Lorenzo, a rapidly sketched portrait of a small surly boy with a face like a baboon, stops and holds most observers...
...unity around which the distraught Americans can rally. But he is more than a convenient meeting ground, for he possesses an instinct for public opinion and a knowledge of men that is invaluable to the other founders of the United States. While he lacked the vision of the theorist, he had the background of a hard bitten practicality to use as a leaven for the political dough of Hamilton and Adams...
...theorist Mr. Pollock commands attention by virtue of his efforts to purge the present day theatre of much of its coarseness, of its melodramatic tendencies, and of its often brutal realism. In accomplishing this end the play wright would exist the virtues of John Doe, showing that the lives of good, simple people often contain dramatic material of the first order, which may be converted into the proper sort of the artist is keen enough to see in the shiny serge suit of John Doe the flashing cuirass of a true knight...