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weeks before that time the Harper
presses were kept running day ana
night to print the heavy edition re-
Quired at the outset. The novel IN
fact. is still being printed at the same
tate OF production, and there IS no
prospect Of a slowing down IN us
manufacture
In his article on Criticisms or All
Sorts" in Harper's Magazine Tor
April Mr. Brander Matthews dehhes
definitely the terms Amerieanlsm ana
criticism as applied to the varied uses
Of the language
perhaps il would be well to suggest
here a stricter definition Of criticism
and OF 'AmeriCanism than that care
lessly given to these words IN Ordinary
parlance. That a strange WORD nus
been employed once by some one AIheIi-
can writer does not make II an Amerl-
canism: until this word gets INTO gen
eral use I'm the United states, II is only
an individualism Of the single writer
who employed II. And so that IS NOT
strictly 10 be described as Bfluclsu
(which Is only a popularity OF some one
British author, like 'eynnesclns, Whlch
we find In the pages Of Walter Pat'r'
or like mech8niZe,' 60 labor as me,
chanic). which we discover IN mover
of MIR. Thomas Hardy, or like 'unWeli-
ness which We note In the letters oil
Matthew Arnold. To speak precisely, an
Amarlcanism is a word or phrase or
usage generally accepted IN the lIlleu
Etates. bnt not accepted IN Great hllt-
ain-gnd therefore not adopted into the
English language and criticism Is a
word or phrase or usage generally ac-
cepted I'm the British Isles, or even m
The whole British empire but not ac-
cepted In the United States-and there
fore not adopted into the English IAN
e,lage When the meaning of Ameri-
canism and Of criticism Is thus clearly
limited we see that neither Of them can
fairly serve as a term of reproach. II Is
nothing In favor Of phrase or OF
usage that il began Ike as criticism
or AS an Amerlcanism. There shouiu
he no prejudice either for It or against
a. becatise IL was horn in Great Britain
~, I'm the United States The majority
~ thot body happens now TO dwell here
I'm Inc limited states. Il Is true; but II
is moi n question Of the majority only
II is true also that the language was
brought 10 lis noble maturity In Great
Rritain. but II Is not question OF tne
original users OF the tongue. Above all
IS n true that no local standard Is now
sufficient. even II there was any POSI-
bIllty Of setting up such standard al
this late day
Israel Zangwill, who has been called
the unriyaled exponent Of the modern
low WAS born in London In 1854 III
ISc4 he won his bachelors degree AZ
london university During his college
days he wrote. In collaboration,
series OF humorous political papers
which were later published under tne
title "rbe Premier and the Painter
In 1889 he founded a comic paper when
failed after J'Vo years uneventiul ca
raar The publication Of 1.-THE Bache-
Ior's club" nSgD brought his name
prominently before the public. II was
not until the appearance, however OF
.The children Of the Ghetto that ne
made his first real success. TINS DOCK
is an epie OF London Jewry II is me'o-
dramatic but pregnant with NE ann
shows the authors belief IN Judaism
Tho authors next important Work vas
sTbe Master" IN which he forsook the
Ghetto 10 denict the 1ife Of an artist,
Gin They That Walk On Darkness. Mr'
Zgnrwlli returned 80 depletion Of the |
io,yiv lives of his own people which ne |
inovs how 10 treat with so much ten !
derncss and sympathy. Other Of Mt
Zanrwilry books are "The old Maids
Crnb % MERELY Mary Ann The King |
~ he schnorrers. The Big Bow Mys- |
terv" GHETTO Traredics.' 'Dreamers |
~ Tho wig" Besides his novels, Mr. |
zangwll has written q comedy Six |
Persons" and has contributed critical
,,,t;,,ss FOR Thr Idier the Pan Man |,
Magazine, and The Critic
Mcclure, Phillips 8 Co are announe-