“It is trivial and unutterably dull.”
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“So far as we can discover from this and other contemporary records, Mrs Gladstone was a good but stupid woman. There are a number of letters to Mrs Gladstone which show what exceedingly dull and commonplace letters are written by very distinguished people.”
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DRINKWATER, JOHN. Lincoln: the world emancipator. *$1.50 (10c) Houghton
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The object of this book, written by an Englishman, is not to retell the life-story of Lincoln to Americans, but to use him as a symbol of the community of spirit and of the differences of national character between the two peoples and to show how he can serve as a reconciler in bringing about an intellectual and spiritual alliance between them. Contents: ‘Liberty’; ‘E pluribus unum’; Anglo-American union; Lincoln as symbol; Anglo-American differences; Lincoln as reconciler; History and art; Lincoln and the artists; An epilogue.
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“The whole essay is a work of art. In form it is not in the least polemical, and if it is polemical in intent, then Drinkwater has brought polemics into the region of the fine arts.”