Life — September 30, 1909 — page 29: what you’re looking at

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Professor Brander Jatthews’ dictum that a critic should always sounds stra mote time when the critic is clined to write like a lady. Only day we caught a book reviewer spi most respectfully of Hall Caine. Pretty soon lock for the long delayed “ apprecia- of Marie Corelli ‘ow, urbanity, of course. isa thing to be desired. When’ Sir Lucius O'Trigger_admon ished Bob Acres that "Damme, sir!” would rever do in addressing even the most detest able of rivals he unconsciously an analogy to the ec icism. However de . however merciless may be , it is at th ‘of good breeding that we brandish it i ation of politeness. The trouble seems to be tha suing perfec tion of deportment we have specified robust ness, vigor, directness. The critical blade lacks temper. There is no longer energy behind it; no longer dees it draw blood h were our cogitations immediately. pre- ceding our perusal of The Bookman for Sep tember. Curiously enough, without Professor Harry Having read his. paper Joseph R. Kiplin © heart The criticism we thought anemic is sudde charged with red corpuscles. F weary months the pale masters of cumlocution have intimated and sw: inferred that the Rudyard Kipling of recent years was not the Kipling of old; that his verse especially had Jost inspiration and ring. rntil in“ The City of Brass” it resounded not at all. This was obvious, but insufficient. To borrow another metaphor, the interests of lit- crature called for a thorough diagnosis—per- haps an inquest. Dr. Peck responded to the hurry call. Ethics ordinarily demand that an author be dead before literary doctors cut him up and analyze his liver. But Kipling, many years ago—like Dickens before him—was a rash critic of Americans and their country So Dr. Peck has resorted to vivise He thinks that the man who wrote “ The City of Brass” has pretty well described himself in his characterization of Wilton Sargent, American: “His voice had risen to the high, throaty crow of his breed when they labor under ex citement. His close-set eyes showed by turns unnecessary fear, annoyance beyond reason, Thurston Concerning Mr. IN THE MORNING ON ARISING TAKE % GLASS OF THE BEST NATURAL LAXATIVE WATER A bottle of HUNYADI JANOS should be in every bathroom, ready for use when needed. Laxative known—biliousne: It is the most perfect Natural , torpid liver, sick headache and similar disorders are strangers to those who use it. 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