“Browning ... gets to work in a businesslike manner:
The sun looked over the water’s brim
And straight there was a path of gold for him
And a world of souls for me.
I QUOTE FROM MEMORY, BUT I BELIEVE I QUOTE CORRECTLY.” (The capitals are mine.)
May I ask—must an enthusiasm for or against the new movements obliterate all sense of accuracy, all love of clear and rational communication, all fidelity to honest statement, and all interest in truth? Your Mr. Carter and his extraordinary indifference to the workaday obligations of literary criticism have considerably discouraged my interest in the new forces. I can imagine Mr. Carter writing—“Since, as Nansen says, ‘The natives of the polar regions are coal-black,’—(I quote from memory), it must be hotter there than at the equator.”
You have printed many encomiums of your magazine: I shall watch with curiosity to see if you print this.
THE WEAKNESS OF REVOLT
Dr. Weil, New York:
The spirit of revolt is compounded from many causes. Even in the average young girl of whom Mr. Hecht writes in the August Little Review it arises as much from her digestion as from her incomplete physical functioning, as much from her work as from her leisure, as much from her friends as from her freshness. Mr. Hecht would be the first to admit that; would he be equally willing to admit that it meets death variously?