SNAP SHOTS
Middleton, George
Snap Shots Books, Art, Drama By George Middleton ANEW volume of poems by Rabindranath Tagore entitled The Gardener has made its appearance. Mr. Tagore is the Bangalese poet who achieved a...
...He can't even have a little fun with the critics...
...The novel is not like any of its predecessors...
...It is just as true to life in atmosphere and plot, however, showing once more the author's quite remarkable versatility...
...Patterson was doing a man's work in the deep sea fisheries...
...He has stirred up hornets' nests in Hindu temples, smuggled Revolutionist literature into Russia and investigated the habits of howling dervishes at the risk of his life...
...Patterson was born in a little village in Yorkshire in 1866, of Scotch-Irish parentage on his father's side and pure Yorkshire on his mother's...
...for they are of the substance of this poet's vision...
...Tagore's translation preserves not only all that is essential and eternal in his poetry, but much of the strange magic...
...And it is all because the critics had Herrick labeled and placed in his niche, thus: "'Robert Herrick—professor of English,.University of Chicago, and author of certain realistic novels dealing with contemporary America—a keen psychological analyst of feminine types.' "Now being ticketed and niched, it is a high crime and misdemeanor for Professor Herrick to write any other kind of book than the critics expect...
...IT IS A MARVEL to me," says May Edgin-ton, author of A Modern Eve, "not that servants are as bad as they are said to be, but that they are as good as they really are...
...He was twice lost overboard and finally left a cripple by rheumatism...
...Bronner finds the story highly praiseworthy, but he is neither astonished nor mystified because Mr...
...From then on his life was one rush of Homeric escapades which led him a chase over the globe and back again...
...He was mate at eighteen...
...She wants civility from her mistress, for which she will return civility...
...As for ourselves, we can well imagine Herrick sitting in his study and addressing his trusty fountain pen: "'Old pen, you and I have gone on some strange searches into contemporary American life, and it has all been rather serious stuff...
...Go to...
...They all agree that it abounds in merit but they cannot determine the school to which it belongs...
...Indeed, the substance of it is of such supreme value and vitality that no translation could have killed it...
...A maid servant is a social unit...
...She wants her free time and enough of it...
...He has been likened to Victor Hugo, Pierre Loti, Thomas Hardy, George EIiot, Fielding, George Borrow, Richard Jeffries, Joseph Conrand, Querido and others...
...She wants the increased wages for which she is asking because she earns them.'' John E. Patterson, the author of His Father's Wife, is a famous wanderer, a man who, as a friend of his once said, ''has been everywhere and done everything, from breaking a wild goat as a boy to breaking heads as a man, in all the corners of the world where blows and death are easily come by...
...Above all, its simplicity and its transparency survive...
...Patterson has given reviewers a confusing time labeling his work...
...The sixteen years following were spent afloat and ashore...
...In a recent number of the Review of Reviews May Sinclair writes of Mr...
...The Gardener contains a number of lyrics of love and life which will undoubtedly be as eagerly welcomed as were those in his first English book, Gitanjali...
...Let's have a holiday...
...He was recently awarded the Nobel prize for his literary achievements...
...After that he "bolted" to sea, and spent between four and five years in the North Sea fisheries...
...THE FACT that the literary critics have had a great deal to say on Robert Herrick's apparent desertion of the serious novel forms the basis of an article by Milton Bronner in the Kentucky Post...
...it is seized in the very moment of its passing and fixed in the clarity and stillness of his vision...
...There is certainly a woeful lack of it in the reviews of the latest book by Robert Herrick, His Great Adventure...
...Like many of those who have commented upon His Great Adventure, Mr...
...It is quite certain that His Father's Wife will bring forth some new comparison or possibly demonstrate again the truth of an earlier one...
...As for us, we found it rather good of its kind and are ready for his next serious book...
...He says: ''We sometimes wonder whether Americans have that great sense of humor with which all the world credits them...
...Let's please the eternal boy that exists in all men and write a regular thriller, one of the kind that grabs you on the first page and races you and the hero through 300 pages, until at page 301 the hero clasps the beautiful heroine in his manly arms and the curtain falls.' ''Well, that is exactly what Professor Herrick has done, and we do not begrudge him his mental holiday...
...When he was twelve years old he ran away from home and worked in a coal mine...
...Miss Edginton further smashes one of the soundest pillars of bromidic conversation as follows: ''There is no doubt that a change, beneficial to all concerned, has taken place in this part of the community...
...Herrick haa turned aside from his beaten path...
...If he wants to go a-Maying and write a thriller occasionally, that is his business...
...In the poems of this mystic the world appears no longer in its brutality, its vehemence, its swift yet dense fluidity...
...Tagore is the Bangalese poet who achieved a tremendous popularity in his native tongue, and is now arousing interest in this country by rendering his own work into English...
...At thirteen Mr...
...It is beneficial to the servants, because, having more free will, their well-being is increased, and it is beneficial to the mistresses, because, having less free will in this direction, their eyes are opened—forcibly, maybe—to the humanity of their servants in common with themselves...
...Tagore's work in part as follows: ''Mr...
Vol. 5 • December 1913 • No. 52
