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Critical Woodcuts (1926)
by Stuart Pratt Sherman
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By Stuart P. Sherman

Charles Scribner's Sons

Critical Woodcuts

Stuart Sherman

Critical Woodcuts
By
Stuart Sherman

Illustrated with portraits engraved on wood
By
Bertrand Zadig

Charles Scribner's Sons
New York · London
1926

Copyright, 1926, by
Charles Scribner's Sons


Copyright, 1924, 1925 by
New York Tribune, Inc.


Printed in the United States of America

Contents

Page
Introductory xi
I. Sherwood Anderson's Tales of the New Life 3
II. D. H. Lawrence Cultivates His Beard 18
III. Willa Cather and the Changing World 32
IV. Floyd Dell on the Coast of Bohemia 49
V. Ben Hecht and the Supermen 63
VI. Ellen Glasgow 73
VII. Rose Macaulay and Women 83
VIII. H. G. Wells 94
IX. Mr. Brownell on the Quest of Perfection 111
X. Chekhov, Chekhovians, Chekhovism 122
XI. Llewelyn Powys 138
XII. R. L. S. Encounters the "Modern" Writers on Their Own Ground 156
XIII. Anatole France 173
XIV. Oscar Wilde 188
XV. Pierre Loti and Exotic Love 200
XVI. Don Marquis, Poet 209
XVII. William Osler 222
XVIII. H. L. Mencken as Liberator 235
XIX. Barrett Wendell 244
XX. Mandeville on the Seamy Side of Virtue 261
XXI. Boswell on His Own Hook 271
XXII. Laurence Sterne 284
XXIII. George Washington as Diarist 296
XXIV. Brigham Young 311
XXV. Interpreting Jesus 324
XXVI. The Known Soldier 338


This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1929.


The longest-living author of this work died in 1926, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 97 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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