The Yale Literary Magazine, Volume 92, Issue 8Herrick & Noyes, 1927 |
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Page 268 - The story is beautifully designed, and it moves with the inevitability of a fugue. It is packed with observation, all fresh, all shrewd, all sound. There is gargantuan humor in it, and there is also something not far from moving drama. It is American from the first low cackle of the prologue to the last gigantic obscenity — as American as goose-stepping or the mean admiration of mean things.
Page 274 - The saint at every window Was a sentinel in arms. They might have checked the water Which can seep through any stone, Or held at bay the mildew Which will permeate the bone.
Page 254 - She was shocked and her hands trembled so that she could hardly manage the plates. "How could they act this way?