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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1908
Page
24
A reader letters debate the form and rhyme of limericks versus sonnets, arguing about rhythm, accent, and rhyming rules. The writer cites examples from Browning and Lear and suggests humorous reworkings, noting readers’ dullness and regional voices.
The New York Times Saturday Review of Books recounts Mrs. Atherton’s interview denouncing the Howell Magazine School and praising her own originality. She claims she stands above W. D. Howells and peers, urging readers to recognize her genius and leadership in American letters.
H McChesney of New York comments in the Saturday Review of Books that Mr Howells’s new volume A Sleep and a Forgetting proves his figures are implausible and provincial. The critic notes stilted social scenes and canary birdlike pecking at English, yet admits any Howells work is worth reading for its sake.
The piece critiques truth telling in America, contrasting national manners with foreign examples, arguing sincerity clashes with decorum and social form, and laments moral hypocrisy while urging a symbol of protest. L. A. Elder from Merion, Penn., dated Dec 29, signs off.
A review lauds The Broken Lance as a bold artistic attack on the Church and urges reading by both saints and sinners. It asks whether the novel serves society or unjustly harms the Church and whether the institution can, within itself, reform the depicted evils.
In St Paul Minnesota on December 29 J Miller argues that Mr Quick has out-Zolned Zola by attacking the institutional Church. He says the church must respond vigorously if there is any strength in churchianity, warning silence would signify weakness.
Virginia Ayvad from New York argues for stronger appreciation of poetry amid commercialism. She praises Daniel Hugh Verder’s The Snow Bride and Other Poems as a reminder of higher ideals and urges readers to support earnest verse to uplift society.
A New York letter to NU K argues that the review of Saturday December 21 misnames the seventeenth century author as a new La Rochefoucauld. It contrasts pessimistic self love with optimistic faith in innate good, urging the review to clarify the minds of readers with balanced critique.
A reader objects to Margherita Hamm translating and shaping Mother Goose, arguing the collection belongs to Elizabeth Goose and colonial origins. The letter cites Hamm’s prior folklore work and asserts it is sacrilege to imprint political ideas on timeless nursery verses.
A letter from Fanny Blyd Buller in Brooklyn urges mothers and all people to protest what she calls the socializing of Mother Goose. The note dated December 24 at St George, Clark Street, reflects a campaign sentiment on children and culture.
Benjamin Di Casseres argues in the New York Times Saturday Review that Hawthorne embodies the Intangible Life, a meditative existence amid a haunted world. He contrasts Hawthorne and Poe with modern life, praising Hawthorne’s remote consciousness and enduring memory of a golden moment.
A reader from New England, an American loyalist to Hawthorne, thanks the Saturday Review of Books for a splendid tribute to Hawthorne in today’s literary section. Philadelphia letter writer signs off with holiday season date.
Florence Wilkinson mockingly reviews Richard Watson Gilders poems in the Data Review. Fritz L Schmidt Jr of New York cites Coleridge to argue literature demands talent, contrasting genuine genius with routine verse.
A brisk sensational portrait of a vampiric circle surrounding a wife and her lover aligned with London moral decay. The husband narrator tells the tale to his son as the old scandal erupts, with Betty Blundell as a central figure amid violent emotional twists.
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