Life — February 3, 1910 — page 41: what you’re looking at

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Of Dick Minim—that_ “inimitably common- Place critic"—he wrote: “He is particularly delighted when he finds the sound an echo to the sense. “* Honor is like the glassy bubble, Which cost philosophers such trouble; Where, one part crack’d, the whole docs fly, And wits are crack’d to find out why.’ “Tt is impossible to utter the (first) two lines emphatically,” says Minim, “without an act like that which they describe; Bubble and Trouble causing a momentary inflation of the cheeks by the retention of the breath, which is afterwards forcibly emitted, as in the practice of blowing bubbles. But the greatest excellence is in the third line, which is crack’d in the middle to express a crack, and then shivers into monosyllables.” ce ee Poe, we have ventured to say, was a “keen critic.” Yet the value of his criticism is debatable. It has, indeed, been the subject of debate, so to speak, by Mr. Henry James and another lit- erary expert, Mr. Mabie. 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