Miss Willa Cather’s “One of Ours” is centered on one person, Claude, the fine and lovable though not very articulate farm lad of Nebraska. As Dorothy Canfield puts it in a review of Miss Cather’s admirable book, it “is the whole purpose of the novel to make us see and feel and understand Claude and passionately long to... continued
Millions
December 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Mr. Poole’s “Millions” is in one sense slight, for it is brief, involves few characters, and is centered on one situation. But its very simplicity is its strength. The theme interests one singularly, because it is that of a test of human nature-whether a woman’s honor and conscience will give way to the temptation of self-in... continued
Babbitt Review
December 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment
BABBITT is the reverse of “Main Street;” it packs into the personality of one ordinary citizen the banality, vulgarized energy, and ambition to be a hustler and a good fellow, of a whole class, while “Main Street” took what was alleged to be (but wasn’t) a typical town and diffused all over it the meanness and crassnes... continued
Madness of War – Book Review
November 24, 2009 By
Was Jesus a Pacifist? PRESIDENT COOLIDGE’S Armistice Day speech, the proposed cruiser increase in our navy, the Kellogg Peace Pact and our growing commercial rivalry with England have, in the last few months, focused the attention of our citizens upon international relations. In less pleasant phraseology, this means that the attention of the ... continued