The Invisible Censor

by Francis Hackett

THE INVISIBLE CENSOR

By

FRANCIS HACKETT

New York

B. W. HUEBSCH, INC.

MCMXXI

Copyright, 1921,

by B. W. Huebsch, Inc.

Printed in U. S. A.

TO MY WIFE

SIGNE TOKSVIG

WHOSE LACK OF INTEREST IN THIS BOOK

HAS BEEN MY CONSTANT DESPERATION

These sketches and articles appeared in the New Republic and I am indebted to the other editors for being allowed to reprint them.

Contents

• [THE INVISIBLE CENSOR]
• [WHISKY]
• [BILLY SUNDAY, SALESMAN]
• [FIFTH AVENUE AND FORTY-SECOND STREET]
• [AS AN ALIEN FEELS]
• [SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT]
• [THE NEXT NEW YORK]
• [CHICAGO]
• [THE CLOUDS OF KERRY]
• [HENRY ADAMS]
• [THE AGE OF INNOCENCE]
• [THE IRISH REVOLT]
• [A LIMB OF THE LAW]
• [A PERSONAL PANTHEON]
• [NIGHT LODGING]
• [YOUTH AND THE SKEPTIC]
• [THE SPACES OF UNCERTAINTY OR, AN ACHE IN THE VOID]
• [WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS]
• [“WITH MALICE TOWARD NONE”]
• [WAR EXPERTS]
• [OKURA SEES NEWPORT]
• [THE CRITIC AND THE CRITICIZED]
• [BLIND]
• [“AND THE EARTH WAS DRY”]
• [TELEGRAMS]
• [OF PLEASANT THINGS]
• [THE AVIATOR]

THE INVISIBLE CENSOR

Not long ago I met a writer who happened to apply the word “cheap” to Mr. Strachey’s Eminent Victorians. It astonished me, because this was an erudite, cultivated woman, a distinguished woman, and she meant what she said.