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...rtlett’s writing has been praised by many leading authors, reviewers, and critics, among them: JAMES MICHENER, novelist: “I am much taken with Bar... ...d, impressive, highly pictorial.” JOE KNOEFLER in the L.A. Times: “...an American writer gifted with...perception and sensitivity.” FRANK TANNENBA... ... the Owl Cries, has been widely acclaimed by many authors, reviewers, and critics, among them James Michener, Pearl S. Buck, Ford Madox Ford, Charle... .... and Mexico. S VOICES FROM THE PAST xiv Archives of his work and literary correspondence have now been established at the American Heritage... ... of his work and literary correspondence have now been established at the American Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, the Nettie Lee Bens... ...Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming, the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection of the University of Texas, and the Rare Books Collect... ... natural (Sappho), spiritual (Jesus), scientific and artistic (da Vinci), literary (Shakespeare), and humanitarian (Lincoln). In this work, he has s... ...f the University of Wyoming, which also includes an archive of Bartlett’s literary work, fine art, and letters. P VOICES FROM THE PAST 152 P...

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Excerpt: Preface to Major Barbara: First Aid to Critics by George Bernard Shaw.

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...PREFACE TO MAJOR BARBARA FIRST AID TO CRITICS BY BERNARD SHAW A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication... ...tronic Classics Series Publication Preface to Major Barbara: First Aid to Critics by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...lectronic transmission, in any way. Preface to Major Barbara: First Aid to Critics by George Bernard Shaw, the Pennsylvania State University, Electron... ...al in that sense than a tree can grow out of air. Another mistake as to my literary ancestry is made when- ever I violate the romantic convention that... ...e Socialist revival of the eighteen-eighties brought me into contact, both literary and personal, with Mr Ernest Belfort Bax, an English Socialist and... ...d instructive pamphleteering, even when done by the most earnest and witty literary geniuses, were as useless as praying, things going steadily from b... ...heir competitors can do to them. The history of the English factories, the American trusts, the exploitation of African gold, diamonds, ivory and rub-... ...om time to time by violent ex- plosions of revolution; so the attempt—will Americans please note—to found moral institutions on a basis of moral in- e... ...but unnatural Reigns of the Saints relieved by licentious Restorations; to Americans who have made divorce a public institution turning the face of Eu...

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...paper and cane as Tom had done, but with a penny packet of Boys of England American ciga- rettes. His language shocked his father before he was twelve... ...a life of pleasure and enlightenment. All of this without hindrance to his literary studies, which carried him up to the seventh standard at an except... ...t was that particularly impressed Bert Smallways. “If them Germans or them Americans get hold of this,” he said impressively to his brother, “the Brit... ...er banged and crackled. The crowd di- vided itself into an outer circle of critics, advisers, and sec- ondary characters, who had played undistinguish... ...r and cigarette shop opposite dis- played such placards as this:— REPORTED AMERICAN ULTIMATUM. BRITAIN MUST FIGHT. OUR INFATUATED WAR OFFICE STILL REF... ...the long-dis- puted Bill for universal military service in New York State. Critics of the American character are disposed to consider— that up to the ...

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...ch he prodigally seasoned the character of the party-coloured jester. Some critics, whose good-will towards a favourite performer was stronger than th... ..., than may be the case with others, who feel more strongly the passion for literary fame, probably because they are justly conscious of a better title... ...ul occupation, I could also give pleasure to others, and became aware that literary pursuits were likely to engage in future a considerable por- tion ... ...31.)] and as much as possible to avoid resting my thoughts and wishes upon literary suc- cess, lest I should endanger my own peace of mind and tran- q... ...y grandsire, the inditer of this goodly matter, was rather lengthy, as our American friends say. Indeed, I reserve the rest of the piece until I can o... ...rvade every civilized country. Amongst their mountains, as among the North American Indians, the various tribes were wont to make war upon each other,...

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......................................................... 4 THE TRUE RELATIONS OF THE BIBLE TO MERELY HUMAN SCIENCE...................... 54 SCHLOSSER?S LITERARY HISTORY OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ...................... 60 FOX AND BURKE .................................................................................................................................................

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...OF THE BIBLE TO MERELY HUMAN SCIENCE ...................... 54 SCHLOSSER’S LITERARY HISTORY OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ...................... 60 FOX AN... ...ge line of sea-board (stretching through twenty-four hundred miles) of the American United States; may enjoy fifty years for lei- surely repentance; a... ...CHLOSSER’S LITERAR OSSER’S LITERAR OSSER’S LITERAR OSSER’S LITERAR OSSER’S LITERARY HIST Y HIST Y HIST Y HIST Y HISTOR OR OR OR ORY OF Y OF Y OF Y OF ... ... cism when it will spare that effort to themselves. Thus it is that German critics become audacious and libellous. Kohl, V on Raumer, Dr. Carus, physi... ...d. Cato was not popular for a moment, nor tolerated for a moment, upon any literary ground, or as a work of art. It was an apple of temptation and str... ...itely, and restoring to our imaginations, the noblest of Grecian girls. We critics, dis- persed through the house, in the very teeth of duty and con- ... ... well known upon that coast; and ‘faults’ may be a flash term for what the Americans call ‘notions.’ A part of the cargo it clearly is; and one is not... ...t must be looked on as involving a peremptory defi- ance to all succeeding critics who might hesitate between the authority of Mr. Hume at the distanc... ...informer? A French- man, reader, —M. Simond; and though now by adoption an American citizen, yet still French in his heart and in all his prejudices. ...

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...ience I had found from nervous depression to be absolutely insurmountable; secondly, in having made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicitation or the shadow of any expectation on my part, without any legal claim that I could plead, or equitable warrant in established usage, solely and merely upon your own spontaneous motion. So...

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...HER PAPERS, VOL. I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. .......................................................... 4 EXPLANATORY NOTICES......................................................................................................................

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................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. ................................................ ...condly, in hav- ing made me a participator in the pecuniary profits of the American edition, without solicitation or the shadow of any expectation on ... ...ated from its place in a larger whole. To my surprise, however, one or two critics, not carelessly in conversation, but deliberately in print, pro- fe... ... where the dif- ficulty lies, or to detect any lurking obscurity, as those critics found themselves to unravel my logic. Possibly I may not be an indi... ...form; and so far otherwise, that a period of several years in Kate’s South American life is confessedly suppressed; and on no other ground whatever th... ... publication of Kate’s memoirs, in what you may call an early stage of her literary career, though two centuries after her personal career had closed,... ...solutely mobbed and hustled by a gang of misbelieving (that is, miscreant) critics. And this fact is most remarkable, that the person who origi- nally... ...isposable for general purposes; amongst which purposes ranked foremost his literary pursuits. And, however much he transcended the prevailing concepti... ...(somewhere in Fountain-street), and, though a plain, unpretending man, was literary to the extent of having written a book, all things were so arrange...

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... exist- ence of great men; denies the desirableness of great men. Show our critics a great man, a Luther for example, they begin to what they call “ac... ...forth. They did want him greatly; but as to calling him forth— ! Those are critics of small vision, I think, who cry: “See, is it not the sticks that ... ...of the World, I said already, was the Bi- ography of Great Men. Such small critics do what they can to promote unbelief and universal spiritual paraly... ...rs! There is nothing written, I think, in the Bible or out of it, of equal literary merit.— T o the idolatrous Arabs one of the most ancient universal... ...gins to disclose itself; and in this there is a merit quite other than the literary one. If a book come from the heart, it will contrive to reach othe... ...ed the mere grammatical diction is still legible enough; Luther’s merit in literary history is of the greatest: his dialect became the lan- guage of a... ...th. Give a thing time; if it can succeed, it is a right thing. Look now at American Saxondom; and at that little Fact of the sailing of the Mayflower,...

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...ng about it!’ ‘They can’t mend,’ said Mysie. ‘Besides, do you know, in the American war, all the sewing-machines in the Southern States got out of ord... ...home to him. And she insisted on making it up to me by degrees— out of her literary work, I fancy—for I don’t think Maurice knew the extent of the pec... ...he did greatly esteem that with the world of letters. ‘You know we are all literary.’ ‘Oh yes, I know! But what kind of criticisms do you mean? I supp... ...t it is, my poor sweet! I thought whether he could come to me for a merely literary consultation without Mary’s knowing anything further about it, and... ...ined her again, and Mr. Flinders discoursed about the envy and jealousy of critics, and success being only attained by getting into a certain clique, ... ...that a person answering to his description had embarked at Liverpool in an American-bound steamer. This idea, though very uncertain, was a relief, at ... ...s I can, and try to make them useful.’ ‘Useful, but that’s so dull—and the critics always laugh at things with a purpose.’ ‘But I don’t think that is ...

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...been worked out in public lectures. No one will ever give me credit for my literary honesty. Merely by plundering you I might have been as learned as ... ...y, these two romances form a pair, like twins of opposite sexes. This is a literary vagary to which a writer may for once give way, especially as part... ... do you not leave everything for my sake?” asked the Brazilian. This South American born, being logical, as men are who 164 Cousin Betty have lived t... ...y say, Liaisons dangereuses!” Crevel might have gone on with his string of literary allu- sions; the Baron heard him as a deaf man listens when he is ... ... you?” “Valerie,” said the official, “my child, that cousin of yours is an American cousin—” “Oh, that is enough!” she cried, interrupting the Baron. ... ...essing that his own opinion agreed with that of every other artist, of the critics, and the public. He said to me in the garden before breakfast, ‘If ... ...quite inexplicable. The disease is peculiar 369 Balzac to negroes and the American tribes, whose skin is differently constituted to that of the white...

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...R X: THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI .................................................................................................... 151 CHAPTER XI: CERES AMERICANA .......................................................................................................... 169 CHAPTER XII: BUFFALO TO NEW YORK ..........................................................................

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....................................................... 151 CHAPTER XI: CERES AMERICANA .................................................................... ... by Anthony Trollope CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION It has been the ambition of my literary life to write a book about the United States, and I had made up my... ...t now my primary object. Thirty years ago my mother wrote a book about the Americans, to which I believe I may allude as a well- known and successful ... ...may perhaps be able to add something to the familiarity of Englishmen with Americans. The writings which have been most popular in England on the subj... ... will be to see those buildings when completed. And now, like all friendly critics, having bestowed my modicum of praise, I must proceed to find fault... ...ipline were such as did at that time recommend themselves to most military critics. Early in September the Northern party obtained a considerable adva... ..., and Washington in its Congressional and State politics. New York has its literary aspirations, its 213 Trollope commercial grandeur, and, Heaven kn... ...en and women may be rescued from idleness. The subjects chosen are social, literary, phil- anthropic, romantic, geographical, scientific, religious— a... ...d it so. My position for seeing was not good, but my ear was not offended. Critics also should bear in mind that an orator does not speak chiefly to t...

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...he mouth of Mrs Knox I have delivered on them the judgment of her God. The critics whom I have lampooned in the induction to this play under the names... ...ch Mr Claude King so suc- cessfully simulated his personal appearance. The critics whom I did not introduce were somewhat hurt, as I should have been ... ...In so far as it was effectual, it operated as a measure of relief to those critics and playgoers who are so obsessed by my strained legendary reputati... ...cked—in fact theyve never been opened since we came from Venice—and as our literary guests will probably use the li- brary a good deal, I just ran in ... ...yself. It’s not an old man’s job after all, is it? Bannal may not ride the literary high horse like T rotter and the rest; but I’ d take his opinion b... ...ck you soundly and pack you off to bed. FANNY. Thats one of your prettiest literary attitudes, Mr Trotter; but it doesnt take me in. You see, I’m much... ...lf, or even to remain in the Guards in competi- tion with the grandsons of American millionaires, I could not have aspired to Miss Knox’s hand. But as...

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... idols are Italy, England, Egypt, retains its fascination for all educated Americans. They who made England, Italy, or Greece venerable in the imagina... ...r of thought and quaint expression are as near to us as to any, and if the American artist will study with hope and love the precise thing to be done ... ...t we can only be valued as we make ourselves valuable. There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon ev- ery book a... ...s he looked out of this window, when he looked out of that,—whip him.” Our American character is marked by a more than average delight in accurate per... ...not wisdom, and the most illuminated class of men are no doubt superior to literary fame, and are not writers. Among the multitude of scholars and aut... ...a piece of science but its flank may be turned to-morrow; there is not any literary reputation, not the so-called eternal names of fame, that may not ... ... majestic men that are suggested by the pictures and the architecture. The critics who complain of the sickly separation of the beauty of nature from ...

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...y sometimes see the curious circular nests of the Lamprey Eel, Petromyzon Americanus, the American Stone Sucker, as large as a cart wheel, a foot or ... ...d, and referring him to some new ge nealogy. “Son of——and——. He aided the Americans to gain their independence, instructed mankind in economy, and dr... ... labored sentences? From the weak and flimsy periods of the politician and literary man, we are glad to turn even to the description of work, the simp... ...an axe or a sword. When we consider the weak and nerveless periods of some literary men, who perchance in feet and inches come up to the standard of t... ...moral grandeur and sub limity akin to those of his own Scriptures. T o an American reader, who, by the advantage of his posi tion, can see over that... ...orner of it which he inhabits. One of the rarest of England’s scholars and critics, in his classification of the worthies of the world, betrays the na... ...ose heathen, who sternly believed somewhat, and are inclined to say to the critics, who are offended by their superstitious rites,— Don’t interrupt th... ..., and were autochthones of the soil. Chaucer had eminently the habits of a literary man and a scholar. There were never any times so stirring that the...

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...ones in hand, with the result that I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns as Johnson did when he should have been shaking E... ...f it for the sake of my health by the teachers; for the children to whom a literary education can be of any use are insatiable: they will read and stu... ...nterrupt me here with the remark that many children have no appetite for a literary education at all, and would never open a book if they were not for... ...ry art. The reason why the con- tinental European is, to the Englishman or American, so surprisingly ignorant of the Bible, is that the authorized En-... ... disagreeable noise if there is a thread of music in the middle of it (few critics of the phonograph seem to be conscious of the very considerable mec...

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................................................................. 36 LUKE THE LITERARY ARTIST .............................................................. ...now becomes arrogant, dictatorial, and even abusive, never replying to his critics without an in- sulting epithet, and even cursing a fig-tree which d... ... whole Mark leaves the modern reader where Matthew left him. LUKE LUKE THE LITERARY ARTIST WHEN WE COME to Luke, we come to a later storyteller, and o... ...mple a matter strikes one with distrust and dislike, in spite of his great literary charm, a good example of which is his transfiguration of the harsh... ...e been made, or else have had to confess to the Jews, who were the keenest critics of the Christians, that Jesus was either an impostor or the victim ... ...n practically all the white inhabitants of the British Isles and the North American continent, to mention no other places) are condemned in the words,...

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...tent, if not insincere. This is the prevailing attitude of politicians and literary men. Must one conclude that the mass of mankind has lost touch wit... ... of existence. He found himself entirely out of sympathy with the group of literary men who gathered round him, with Turgenev at their head. In Tolsto... ...letely disil lusioned both in regard to his great contemporary and to the literary world of St. Petersburg, shook off the dust of the capital, and, a... ...ations, his nationality. Such a key is peculiarly necessary to English or American students of Tolstoy, because of the marked contrast existing be t... ...f the marked contrast existing be tween the Russian and the Englishman or American in these respects, a contrast by which Tolstoy himself was forcibl... ... to concentrate his thoughts on the land question. He began by reading the American propagandist’s “Social Problems,” which arrested his attention by ... ...he misunderstandings of Tolstoy’s later years have also been attributed by critics, and by those who hate or belittle his ideas, to the influ ence of...

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...ugh. His name, long familiar everywhere, has now awakened the attention of critics in all European countries to his works: he is studied wherever true... ...and whoever among us shall step forward, with such knowledge as our common critics have of Goethe, to enlighten 5 Goethe the European public, by cont... ... in the ways of all men, which qualify him to stand forth, not only as the literary ornament, but in many respects too as the T eacher and exem- plar ... ...hich some knowledge of him may be obtained. A slight glance at his general literary character and procedure, and one or two of his chief productions w... ... time; to offer the instruction, the solace, which that time required. His literary life divides itself into two portions widely different in characte... ...cene in Auerbach’s cellar. Egmont was also begun under the stimulus of the American Rebel- lion. A way of escaping from his embarrassments was unex- p... ...in which Corneille and Racine are obliged to defend themselves against the critics and public. Here at least I plainly saw that no man knew what he wa... ...Huguenots, who settled there after the revocation of the edict of Nantes.— American Note. 235 Goethe me. Her ill health kept her constantly at home. ... ...g class of men in England or America, which would justify an English word.—American Note. 328 Autobiography tained; which he very soon managed to gai...

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...EPARATION of a Second Edition of this booklet is quite the most unexpected literary task that has ever been set me. When it first appeared I was ungra... ...48 are taught neither by the education nor the experience of En- glish and American gentlemen-amateurs, who are almost al- ways political mugwumps, an... ...and political mugwump that the term “art- ist” seems to suggest to so many critics and amateurs—that is, a creature in their own lazy likeness—he need... ...y is a cave, in which he hides from the light like the eyeless fish of the American caverns. Before the cur- tain rises the music already tells us tha... ...s definitely conscious of his thesis as I. All the stupid people, and some critics who, though not stupid, had not themselves written what the Germans... ...d its pro- gressions saturate themselves with the emotion which (as modern critics are a little apt to forget) springs as warmly from our delicately t... ...y susceptible to the dramatic and descriptive pow- ers of sound. A race of literary and theatrical musicians ap- peared; and Meyerbeer, the first of t... ...know how inevitable and how impersonal Wagner’s attack was. Wagner was the literary musician par excellence. He could not, like Mozart and Beethoven, ...

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.... Even in what he did attempt, it is worth while to follow his career. His literary fate was what might have been expected. After the Persian war, the... ...he French upon the question of opinion with regard to the so- cial rank of literary men) but simply as upon a fact: they appealed to evidences not to ... ...onchrononthononthologus, they must submit to be hustled by pickpockets and critics, and to have their names docked as well as profane authors. Phil, t... ...that the burning of a wood, or even of a forest, which happens in our vast American *‘Integrity of the metaphor.’—One of the best notes ever writ- ten... ...ut God, for a purpose commensurate with man’s eternal welfare, is by these critics supposed incapable of the same petty abstinence. The same line of a... ...ion in Europe for the enlightenment of the world, and for the overthrow of literary, philosophical, and religious su- perstitions,’ I quarrel not with... ..., were it even real, it would still be liable to the just objection of the critics—that, being marvelous in ap- pearance, even as a fact it ought not ...

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...h to a greater extent than the latter. So it comes, for instance, that the American farmer and his wife and daughters are notoriously less modish in t... ...s the French peasant-pro- prietor parsimonious and frugal, and induces the American millionaire to found colleges, hospitals and museums. If the canon... ...ese na- tional or popular costumes are in most cases adjudged by competent critics to be more becoming, more artistic, than the fluctuating styles of ... ...l of the corset is not infrequent among the higher social classes of those American cities, for instance, which have recently and rapidly risen into o... ...interpretations of the classics, especially such as have a philological or literary bearing only. Except within the domain of the “humanities”, in the...

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...er, they might do that if they could. Upon these principles, which hostile critics will in vain endeavor to undermine, she laid her hand upon what see... ...after so long a voyage, she only, out of the total crew, was thrown on the American shore, with one hundred and five pounds in her purse of clear gain... ...foot of Kate’s little account. But unhappily for Kate’s début on this vast American stage, the case was otherwise. Mr. Urquiza had the misfortune (equ... ... like the mist that sits, through sultry afternoons, upon the river of the American St. Peter, sometimes rarefying for minutes into sunny gauze, somet... ...he trans- lator of Wieland’s Oberon. Several of the great guns amongst the literary body were present; in particular, Sir W alter Scott; and he, we be... ...s singular that only one blem- ish is suggested by any of the contemporary critics in Dr. Cook’s verses, viz., in the word xunon, for which this criti... ... which has since been as good as a life-an- nuity to the venerable knave’s literary fame. 321 Thomas de Quincey tion, that under any system of chrono... ...chmann’s Letters, p. 163,) with no bread, or eatable of any kind. Now, his critics, by general confession, ate their way, from ‘morn to dewy eve,’ thr...

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...Mr. Beebe was walking up to the Torre del Gallo with the Emersons and some American ladies. Would Miss Bartlett and Miss Honeychurch join the party? C... ...that a girl should feel deeply. “It is I who am sorry,” said Miss Lavish. “literary hacks are shameless creatures. I believe there’s no se- cret of th... ...they mix up towns, rivers, palaces in one inextricable whirl. You know the American girl in Punch who says: ‘Say, poppa, what did we see at Rome?’ And... ...ide, perfect seclu- sion. One might have gone back six hundred years. Some critics believe that her garden was the scene of The Decameron, which lends... ...to tell Miss Honeychurch that on the right lived Mr. Someone Something, an American of the best type —so rare!—and that the Somebody Elses were farthe... ..., Lucy; it is useless to contradict me. No doubt I am neither artistic nor literary nor intellec- tual nor musical, but I cannot help the drawing-room...

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...that had belonged to a widow, named Science Dear, and enlarged it. Several American trees were planted in the ground by Cobbett, of which only one sur... ...ence, not so much friendly as fatherly, and he was the best and kindest of critics in literary affairs. But throughout, the vicar was the personal min... ...o much friendly as fatherly, and he was the best and kindest of critics in literary affairs. But throughout, the vicar was the personal minister to ea... ...blue, pink, or white in the water-meadows beside the Itchen, deserving the American name of May-wings. Caryophylleae Deptford Pink (Dianthus Armeria)....

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..................................................................... 182 THE AMERICAN POPULATION .......................................................... ...ory of this development and arrive at any other conclusion. The French and Americans can laugh at our aeroplanes, the Ger- mans are ten years ahead of... ...lf and dominate the tailor- ing of the world, while Brazilians, Frenchmen, Americans and Germans fly. That we are hopelessly behindhand in aeronautics... ...flutterings of effort, the foundation of some ridiculous little academy of literary busybodies and hangers-on, the public recognition of this or that ... ... collective mind organised as a branch of the civil service, with authors, critics, artists, scientific investigators appointed in a phrensy of wire-p... ... before a fire, and a little distended by dinner and a sense of social and literary precedences, who uses the first person in Thackeray’s novels. It i... ...e for the classifications of the social sciences an inquiry into the chief literary forms that subserve socio- logical purposes. Of these there are tw... ... suf- frage and the ideal of equal and independent citizenship, and active critics of the conventions under which women live to-day. It is at least pl...

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...- nies to twirl it by steam. Glare is a leading error in the philosophy of American house- hold decoration—an error easily recognised as deduced from ... ...- tween a London populace and that of the most frequented 35 V olume Five American city. A second turn brought us into a square, bril- liantly lighte... .... Every fiction should have a moral; and, what is more to the purpose, the critics have discovered that every fiction has. Philip Melanchthon, some ti... ...s moral. It is there—that is to say, it is somewhere—and the moral and the critics can take care of themselves. When the proper time ar- rives, all th... ...ral tale, or, in more precise words, a tale with a moral. They are not the critics predestined to bring me out, and de- 39 V olume Five velop my mora... ... 39 V olume Five velop my morals:—that is the secret. By and by the “North American Quarterly Humdrum” will make them ashamed of their stupidity. In t... ...rted into a species of hap-hazard note-book—that is to say, into a kind of literary arena for the conflicting guesses, riddles, and personal squabbles... ...ially for the ease of the general manner. This “ease” or naturalness, in a literary style, it has long been the fashion to regard as ease in appearanc... ...fate, Poe presented a copy of “Annabel Lee” to the editor of the “Southern Literary Mes- senger,” who published it in the November number of his pe- r...

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...in array (for such a stretch of time) of really innocent attitudes: Conrad literary, Conrad political, Conrad reminiscent, Conrad controversial. Well,... ... to cope with his task. He imagines it more gigan- tic than it is. And yet literary creation being only one of the legitimate forms of human activity ... ...th is that more than one kind of intellec- tual cowardice hides behind the literary formulas. And Stendhal was pre-eminently courageous. He wrote his ... ...ng, and he talked slowly with an into- nation which on some people, mainly Americans, had, I believe, a jarring effect. But not on me. What- ever he s... ..., very simply, the heights of in- spired vision. He wrote before the great American language was born, and he wrote as well as any novelist of his tim... ...doubt,—and it may be a consolation to Mr. Bourne to know it—fully informed critics will point out that Mr. Davies’s poem on a dark woman combing her h... ...ell where they were. His eldest son was about the decks somewhere. “We are Americans,” he remarked weightily, but in a rather peculiar tone. He spoke ...

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...mperament of a schoolmaster and the pursuits of a vestryman. No doubt that literary knack of mine which happens to amuse the British public distracts ... ...last words of the XVIII century on the subject; and by the time the polite critics of the XIX century, ignoring William Blake as superfi- cially as th... ... and then disparage it as unworthy and indelicate. We laugh at the haughty American nation be- cause it makes the negro clean its boots and then prove... ...omplicated by the genius being a woman, then the game is one for a king of critics: your George Sand becomes a mother to gain experience for the novel... ..., and the more I see of the efforts of our churches and univer- sities and literary sages to raise the mass above its own level, the more convinced I ... ...ich requires a whole popu- lation of capable voters: that is, of political critics who, if they cannot govern in person for lack of spare energy or sp... ...ng about our imperial destiny; but our eyes and hearts turn eagerly to the American millionaire. As his hand goes down to his pocket, our fingers go u... ...ighton and the south coast with the Riviera, for the spending money of the American T rusts. What is all this growing love of pag- eantry, this effusi... ... Shaw lettres, and for amateurs who become the heroes of the fan- ciers of literary virtuosity, is not founded on any illusion of mind as to the perma...

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...an exile from England, at the Chateau of La Source. There was now constant literary activ- ity. From July to October, 1722, Voltaire visited Holland w... ...hat country. The first step he took was to enter into an alliance with his American neighbours, and this is the only treaty between those people and t... ...in his native country, went back to Penn- sylvania. His own people and the Americans received him with tears of joy, as though he had been a father wh... ... attraction, which is unintelligible?” Sir Isaac might have answered these critics thus: —”First, you have as imperfect an idea of the word impulsion ...

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...action and simplicity, and complete absence of life, action and simplicity—literary and argumen- tative artisans and repulsive coquetry with them: ‘Fe... ... between two insurrections. There is something of Anarchism in his lack of literary order. His best- known work is a fragment entitled by its editors ... ...been done under trade-union conditions, have played a considerable part in American labor struggles. Sabotage is the practice of doing bad work, or sp... ...of violence and revolution, is the work of Mr. John Graham Brooks, called “American Syndicalism: the I. W. W.” (Macmillan, 1913). American labor condi... ...fferent from any that arises in Europe. The older skilled workers, largely American born, have long been organized in the American Federation of Labor... ... fire of the militia, a number of women and children were burned to death.[Literary Digest, May 2 and May 16, 1914.] Many other instances of pitched b... ... society is being considered. 93 Bertrand Russell Socialist and Anarchist critics of existing society point, with perfect truth, to certain capitalis... ...e to the power of the Press. The Press is the second great factor to which critics of capi- talism point when they wish to prove that capitalism is th... ...capitalism in promoting war, there is another, much less emphasized by the critics of capi- talism, but by no means less important: I mean the pugnaci...

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...ight be secured. It was believed also that from writers mainly British and American fuller consideration of English Philosophy than it had hith- erto ... ...nti-materialistic tendency of physics is the view of William James and the American new realists, according to which the “stuff” of the world is neith... ...ing that could be called “experi- ence.” This word has been dropped by the American realists, among whom we may mention specially Professor R. B. Perr... ... sensations does. Bodily sensations are ad- mitted by even the most severe critics of introspection, al- though, like images, they can only be observe... ...will be affected by it in the way intended. This is a psychological, not a literary, definition of “correctness.” The literary definition would substi...

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...ll we eager him to eat of it himself. The same spirit inspired Miss Bird’s American missionaries, who had come thousands of miles to change the faith ... ... their ignorance of the religions they were trying to supplant. I quote an American in this connection without scruple. Uncle Sam is better than John ... ...the largest, to a clique of states; and the whole scope and atmosphere not American, but merely Yankee. I will go far beyond him in reprobating the as... ...ose and preserve a fitting key of words, he should long have practised the literary scales; and it is only after years of such gymnastic that he can s... ...way platforms, as they did the other day to General Boulanger; and buy his literary works, as I hope you have just done for me. Our fathers, when they... ... his station the Bible, and perhaps Burns, are the only books of any vital literary merit that they read, feeding themselves, for the rest, on the dra... ...h as we love to prefigure for our- selves; and in the end, in spite of the critics, we may hesitate to give the preference to either. The one may ask ...