Judge — January 12, 1924 — page 23: what you’re looking at

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zine, when that publication was perhaps | the best printed and best illustrated maga- zine in the world. And his avocation was lobbying at Washington to get a decent international copyright bill passed, to save the Yosemite National Park from the greed of San Francisco and the power hogs, to inaugurate a civilized forestry policy in the United States, and so on. Incidentally, he wrote poetry and much ater was United States Ambassador to Italy. But his associations with famous contributors to the old Century and with a reluctant Congress make the best part of his book. One would never have suspected, from the n ne itself, that Mr. Gilder and Mr. Johnson had a hard time keeping the “damns” out of it. Yet such, he records, was the case. The Century of those du did not believe in realism. It was edited for the American family, and its literature was well-bred. well written in correct English and inclined to be aristocratic. The private opinions of the present editor of the Century. Mr. Glen Frank, regarding such literature, might be interesting. But they would be no more uncompli- mentary than the private opinions of Mr. Johnson regarding the stories written by Mr. Frank. As one who stands midw: between these conflicting generations, much more than Johnson ha > new, and much more respect for the old than probably Mr. Frank has (or at any rate most of his kind have), the present reviewer would like to say tl on the whole the older style of writing wears better than the new, and that the value of the new, whether realism or expressionism or what- not, seldom really lies in its form at all, but in the fact that it grasps after new subject matter, and is constantly freeing art from the bondage of good breeding and aristocracy. When Mr. Johnson complains of the lack of taste in modern literature, he doesn’t quite realize, per- haps, that bad taste usually accompanies a revolt into submerged s« Vs Anyhow, his book has one priceless anecdote. 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