IN THE CRITICAL COURT
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IN THE CRITICAL COURT
THE Critical Court being in session, William Dean Howells, H. W. Boynton, W. C. Brownell, Wilson Follett and William Marion Reedy sitting, the case of Booth Tarkington, novelist, is called.
Counsel for the Prosecution: If it please the court, this case should go over. The defendant, Mr. Tarkington, is not dead yet.
Mr. Howells: I do not know how my colleagues feel, but I have no objection to considering the work of Mr. Tarkington while he is alive.
Mr. Follett: I think it would be better if we deferred the consideration of Mr. Tarkington until it is a little older.
Counsel for the Defense (in this case Mr. Robert Cortes Holliday, biographer of Tarkington): “It”?