Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-20
The july YaIe Review.

The Yale Review is nov in the
midst of publishing a series Of arti-
Giles which will present a wide and
thorough criticism of current Amer
lean litera ture. Robert Herricks es-
says in the January and April num-
bers. upon the American novel, at
tracted general attention. Bliss
Perry's article in the July number is
of equal Importance, and will be as
widely quoted. In it he describes
with a brilliant and unsparing pen
the radical defects of American lit
erary criticism and the cause of its
inadequacy. Less pungent, but equal
ly notable. are the charming re- :
niscences of the Olympians of Con-
cord, contributed by Professor Henry
A. Beers in a Characteristic essay
describing his summer at the famous
school of philosophy where Emerson
attended, wearing his wise smile"
The materials of literature rather
than its criticism are to be found in
the third of the essays of this kind in
the July number. Mr.. Wallis collec-
ton OF old letters discovered in a
fortunate hair trunk. contains a
treasure trove of humor, pathos and
curious information which readers of
the Review will relish. The letter
from "Sallie Mex found in a de-
serted camp of the Civil War, and
now perhaps for the first time read,
is packed with delightful humanity.
For public affairs, Hiram Bingham
analyses the South American atti-
tude towards the Monroe Doctrine,
not theoretically, but practically, by
interviews, quotations from South
American newspapers and the testi-
mony of travellers. His intimate ac-
quaintance with the field makes his
deductions exceptionally valuable.
Lincoln Hutchinson has assembled
most significant statistics TO indicate
the probable effect of the opening of
the Panama Canal upon our trade.
A group of articles in this number
illustrates the type of scholarly, yet
readable, essay which before the in
auguration of the Yale Review was
seldom accessible in America.
In Greek literature. Professor
Smith of Amherst. describes the adj
ditions to knowledge which have
come through the Egyptian papyri.
In science. Professor Yandell Hen
derson eXplodes old theories and sets
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unique experiment conducted on the
top of Pixies Peak. In politics. A. F.
Pollard, the distinguished English
historian, traces the different mean
ings which have been put upon the
word liberty" down to our own day
In somewhat lighter vein is the IRON
zeal but most Illuminating essay upon
High Living by Frederick S. Dick
son. Two biographical sketches COM
plete the prose of the number, one a
personal Renaissance of the late
Paul Heyse by Professor William
Lyon Phelps; the other a study of
William Dunlap, a little-known but
highly American painter
and biographer.
The poetry is by Witter Bynner
and Fannie Stearns Clifford well
known for their earlier work, and
William Alexander Percy, a new
writer from the South Perhaps the
most notable Of the book reviews is
Thomas S. Perry's essay upon the
letters of Charles Eliot Norton. Other
observation-disclosures, Lodges
Agassiz 's-follow. Important recent
publicatins upon the Chinese Court
and the remarkable 'Mont-Saint-
Michel and Charters" OF Henry
Adams are given full treatment by
specialists in these fields.
Discussions of new books in his
tory. philosophy. criticism. science
education, etc, by Brander Matthews
John 3. McMaster. Nine. Montessori
Josiah Royce, J. Henri Fabre and
others. follow. This number is espe-
cially marketed for the careful and
interesting criticism in it's reviews.