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The 1. & as "Enmagun" for Boston and New: York, loff Bhatgbal The King's bestowal of a knight-on July 20 for this Port via Keclung. indead, a great deal in the assertiva hood on Mr. P. A. Barker, the of Mr. Sinclair Lewia, the American
famous bonesettex, is 県 happy noveliet, that a new American literature bas arisen in the United method of recomising the eminent Stator during the past ten years, and services which the greatest of Eur that we in Great Britain, critics and gical manipulators bas. rondored,' readers alike, are ignorant of and patronising to this movement," writea says the Daily Mail. "There are Mr. Hugh Walpole, the novelist, in th: hu.dreds, if not thousands, whem Daily Mail.
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editions, that will give any very clear idea as to what is truly, behind Mr. Lowis's assertion.
For there is a new American literature. Let no one make any mis tako about it--for the first time pr haps in the history of the United States there is a literature in existence as completely independent of British influenos as is contemporary Trunch, German, or Italian Brockden Brown and Fenimore Cooper were not 30 independent. Emerson, Longfellow, and Hawthorne were unt eo indepen dent. Henry James and Huwells were not so independent; even Mark Spore, Forang, Col'bo & Baby Twain was not. O. Henry, yes and
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"If I speak largely in this article of MARGRILLER, Lokkor & A'werp-fiction it is because fiction is read on
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Theodore Dreiser and the others.
"I will say nothing of them be. cause they bavo long been known over bere and because, with the pa sible exception of Dreiser, they have thing at all to do with this new
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EIGHTEEN NAMES TO REMEMBER
"Wero I asked to mention the six most prominent younger America novelists definitely of this movement, I should name Joseph Hergesheimer, Willa Cather, Sinclair Lewis. Sher wood Anders, Floyd Dell, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, and if someone wanted the names of six younger Vachell poets I would give him Lindsay, Carl Sandburg, Robert Froes, H D., Edgar Lee Masters, and Amy Lowell. And if to these
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"But my greatest satisfaction lies! in the fact that the generous appeals made ou my behalf were eo nubly secunded by the memorial sent to the Prime Minister recently by some cf at Noon.
That magnanimous action by Sir Alfred Fripp, Sir Henry Morris, Sir Arbuthnot Lane and others men whose tames are graven deep in tie imperishable records of progressive surgery-I can never forget."
you read.none.other on this list that. am giving you. Mise Cather's English is beautiful, wonderful, her feeling for nature is exquisite; she is an artist of the very first and finest order.
"But not from her and not from Hergesheimer will you eavour the al sharp tang of this new American vision and language. You will
Bet the first taste that from Sinclair Lewis's Main Street (Hodder and Stoughton.) That book has cold half 6 million copies in the United States, It has sold very few I beli ve, in Great Britain.
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8 deser bei. the life of small The P.M.... "President Lincoln " Lewis's contention.
"From the novelists I have omitted American town that is in no sort of loft Ban Francisco on July 21 and is doo the name of one of the most interest way like a small English town-the to arrive here on August 19, with 11,400 tons of cargo, and full complement ing of all contemporary American pow American town. But perseveres passengers for Japan ports and the writers-Jnes Branch Cabell, whose And when you have read it, rad Orient. book Jurgen had so much success Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg. here last year, because he is in no Ohio (Jonathan Cape), and when you hai, Taku and Dalny and is dus
a repres ntative of the new have finished that read. Scolt movement, a writer of elaborate and Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise cultured prose with a romanti and (Collins), and when you have finished old world vision of life. From the that read Floyd Doll's Moon Calf poets aleo I have emitted perhaps (Heineman). Then if-you are still the est of them all, Edwin Arlington alive turn back and consider Herges Robinson; he also is not of this beimer and Miss Cather again, and you will know something about the modernist movement,
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"I rely anyone to red Main nīentioned, a d in their work what do you ind? What is there that is Street, Winesburg, Ohio, The Triumph difficult for the British public of the Egg and Moon Calf, to read tcase books boarstly ad seriously, Obviously something, because only one of thom, Joseph Herge heiner, and not to realise that there is a new has secured any sort of success here. literature in the world. Not only a
Hargaskeimer is probably the best new literature but also living Ameri an novelist, although language-a language na distinct from these judgments are always persona! English as French German, or Italian. "Consider those four young men, and never, of course, decisive in any
He is an American. of Dutch Sinclair Lewis, Sherwood Anderson, way. extraction, a man between forty and Floyd Dell, and Scott Fitzgerald. fifty, who had to wait many years for Lewis and Anderson are, I believe, recognition; was discovered by the round the 'forties, Floyd Dell and indefatigable Mr. George Lorimer, of Fitzgerald under thirty-they have the Saturday Evening Port, and made their lives before them a new In- his first big success suc.ewhers in the guage, o new world to play with, early years of the war with The Three Heavena 1 their luck!
Add to the works of those six Black Pennys.
"Read that book and Java Head, povelists an "Anthology of Modern both published in England by American Vone," compiled by Mr. Untermeyer and published the other Massys. Beinemann, and if you don't get from them an impression day in England. Beg. borrow, or of radiant colour and poetry, of steal a book called Our America, romance and realism beautifully by Waldo Frank, sbortly to be pab mingled, it strange new figures never liehed here by Mr. Cape; and most before realised by you don't steal important of all, get hold of the works into your mind and abide there for on Don Ma quis, Ons at least of bis evermore, then you are no true books, Hermione has been published
in England. There's the America for you, the new literature, "The second most important novelist in this now literature is the new tongue...
"Let us realise that this is a foreign. Willa Bilbar Cather. This is a lady who las for many yours now been language that faces us. and a difficult writing about the Scandinavian foreign language at that; that we are populations in the heart of the having offered to us a new presenta States: My Antonio and O Pioneers tion of a now life-a new life that is are both published in England certain to play: an immense part in
the development of the new world. (Heinemanu, and My Antonis is on0,
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