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The Roving Critic

The Mauve Decade, by Thomas Beer

by Carl Van Doren

The Century Magazine, July 1926, pp. 379-383

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    19. The Centurion by John Erskine, pp. 245-250
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    20. The Centurion by John Erskine, pp. 373-378
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      5. Catullus: The Complete Poems by F.A. Wright and Catullus
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    4. The Old Cattleman Comes Back by Charles Moreau Harger, pp. 414-420
    5. Outside by Karl W. Detzer, pp. 421-434
    6. Swallowed by the Jungle by Harry A. Franck, pp. 435-444
    7. Why I Am a Socialist by Frances Countess Warwick, pp. 445-448
    8. Fragment by Lord Stites, p. 449
    9. First Aid to the Physician by Morris Fishbein, pp. 450-456
    10. The Return by Dorothy E. Norman-Smith, pp. 457-465
    11. Those Wonderful Days at Beaune by George S. Hellman, pp. 466-475
    12. Sardonyx by Floyd McKnight, pp. 476-477
    13. The Tonic of Disaster by Hugh A. Studdert Kennedy, pp. 478-483
    14. The Greengrocer's Daughter by L.A.G. Strong, p. 484
    15. Dawn of Nothing by Isa Glenn, pp. 485-495
    16. The Exceptional Child by Fred C. Kelly, pp. 496-500
    17. The Centurion by John Erskine, pp. 501-506
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      2. Lonesome Road by Paul Green
      3. The Verdict of Bridlegoose by Llewelyn Powys
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      2. The Cabala by Thornton Niven Wilder
      3. The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant
      4. A History of the United States Since the Civil War by Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer
      5. Art Through the Ages by Helen Gardner
      6. Dean Briggs by Rollo Walter Brown
      7. The Dreadful Decade by Don C. Seitz
      8. The Selected Poems of Lizette Woodworth Reese by Lizette W. Reese
      9. The Paris That Is Paris by Watson White
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    2. The Funeral of Jimmy MacBride by Lorna Moon, pp. 526-530
    3. Arid Places by Beatrice Allen Draper, p. 531
    4. Lincoln's Honorable Parentage by Louis A. Warren, pp. 532-539
    5. Troglodytes and Lotus-Eaters by E. Alexander Powell, pp. 540-551
    6. Identity by T.K. Hedrick, p. 552
    7. Bondage by Vera Santini, pp. 553-564
    8. Sophocles in Georgia by Gerald W. Johnson, pp. 565-570
    9. Three at Dusk by Ralph Emerson Hackett, p. 571
    10. Fire in the Bush by Stewart H. Holbrook, pp. 572-576
    11. Through Hell by William M. John, pp. 577-582
    12. Epitaph by Lawrence Lee, p. 583
    13. The Impossible Profession by Martha Bensley Bruere, pp. 584-592
    14. Brennan of Illinois by Parke Brown, pp. 593-600
    15. Soul to Body by Henry Morton Robinson, p. 601
    16. In the Luxembourg Gardens by Mary Frank, pp. 602-606
    17. John by Julia Johnson Davis, p. 607
    18. The Strong Man of Persia by Arnold Toynbee, pp. 608-615
    19. A Flavor All Their Own by Walter A. Dyer, pp. 616-619
    20. The Future of the Family by Florence Finch Kelly, pp. 620-628
    21. The Centurion by John Erskine, pp. 629-634
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      1. Mr. Jefferson by Albert Jay Nock
      2. Fathers of the Revolution by Philip Guedalla
      3. Fix Bayonets! and Other Stories by John W. Thomason, Jr.
      4. Two or Three Graces by Aldous Huxley
      5. A Dictionary of Modern English Usage by Henry W. Fowler
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      Short Cuts, p. 640 - 12 Reviews
      1. Count Bruga by Ben Hecht
      2. The Abundant Life: Benjamin Ide Wheeler by Monroe E. Deutsch
      3. The Conquest of Brazil by Roy Nash
      4. Lay Thoughts of a Dean by William Ralph Inge
      5. The Worm Ouroboros by E.R. Eddison
      6. The Exquisite Perdita by E. Barrington
      7. The Sacred Tree by Arthur Waley and Lady Murasaki
      8. A Chapter on Autography by Edgar Allan Poe and Don C. Seitz
      9. The Book of Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer by Robert Kilburn Root and Geoffrey Chaucer
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      11. The Torrents of Spring by Ernest Hemingway
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    1. Our Moral Anarchy by Walter B. Pitkin, pp. 641-648
    2. The Price of Political Independence by Andre Tardieu, pp. 649-657
    3. The Fame of Usskar by Charlton Lawrence Edholm, pp. 658-663
    4. O, They're Seekin' Jamie Tolliver by Ben Lucien Burman, pp. 664-665
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    6. A Path to Peace in Industry by Silas Bent, pp. 677-686
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    8. The Whale Hunt by F.V. Morley, pp. 688-696
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    11. Youth by Brooke Maury, p. 723
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    13. An Issue for the Democratic Party by Allen Sinclair Will, pp. 730-735
    14. Song of the Wave by Ralph Emerson Hackett, p. 736
    15. Moonshine by Gaylord Nelson, pp. 737-742
    16. The President Sits in His Study by Harry Means Crooks, pp. 743-747
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    18. The Centurion by John Erskine, pp. 757-762
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      4. The Life of William Godwin by Ford K. Brown
      5. Anthologie de la Litterature Americaine by Charles Cestre and B. Gagnot
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      3. Nigger Heaven by Carl Van Vechten
      4. A Mirror to France by Ford Madox Ford
      5. Four Years Beneath the Crescent by Rafael de Nogales
      6. Folk Beliefs of the Southern Negro by Newbell Niles Puckett
      7. The Prelude by William Wordsworth and Ernest de Selincourt
      8. The Psalms by J.M. Powis Smith
      9. The Spell of the Turf by Samuel C. Hildreth and James R. Crowell
      10. Through Many Windows by Helen Rosen Woodward
  11. [+]
    November 1926 Issue = 21 Articles
    1. Lloyd George Now by S.K. Ratcliffe, pp. 1-8
    2. The Cinder by Francis Hackett, pp. 9-18
    3. The Approaching Crisis by Henry Nelson Wieman, pp. 19-22
    4. From Redskins to Railroads by Erna Fergusson, pp. 23-30
    5. Iowa by Benjamin Rosenbaum, p. 31
    6. Ye Ancient Game of Foote Ball by William Norwood Brigance, pp. 32-40
    7. Grand Central by Webb Waldron, pp. 41-49
    8. The Future of Psychical Research by E.N. Bennett, pp. 50-59
    9. Autumn by Beatrice Post Candler, p. 60
    10. The Missionary's Wife by Elinor Mordaunt, pp. 61-73
    11. The Man and Artist by Louis J. Richards, pp. 74-79
    12. Speech, Common and Preferred by Thomas L. Masson, pp. 80-89
    13. Equality by Gustavus Myers, pp. 90-99
    14. Hot Milk by V.H. Friedlaender, pp. 100-101
    15. The Fog by Della Thompson Lutes, p. 102
    16. The American Press by Charles Merz, pp. 103-110
    17. Hands Off by Henry W. Bunn, pp. 111-115
    18. Gray Goose by Virginia McCormick, p. 116
    19. The Centurion by John Erskine, pp. 117-122
    20. [+]
      The Roving Critic by Carl Van Doren, pp. 123-127 - 4 Reviews
      1. Jesus: A Myth by Georg M.C. Brandes
      2. Beau Sabreur by Percival Christopher Wren
      3. Eugene O'Neill by Barrett H. Clark
      4. William by Emily H. Young
    21. [+]
      Short Cuts, p. 128 - 13 Reviews
      1. Selected Poems of Carl Sandburg by Rebecca West and Carl Sandburg
      2. Evolution and Religion in Education by Henry Fairfield Osborn
      3. A History of English Literature by Emile H. Legouis and Louis Cazamian
      4. The Time of Man by Elizabeth Madox Roberts
      5. O Genteel Lady! by Esther Forbes
      6. Dry Martini by John Thomas
      7. The Dark Dawn by Martha Ostenso
      8. East Wind by Amy Lowell
      9. The Fight of a Book for the World by William Sloane Kennedy
      10. Candaules' Wife, and Other Old Stories by Emily James Putnam
      11. Havelock Ellis: A Biographical and Critical Survey by Isaac Goldberg
      12. The Spokesman's Secretary by Upton Sinclair
      13. Adventures in Editing by Charles Hanson Towne
  12. [+]
    December 1926 Issue = 21 Articles
    1. Those Quarrelsome Bonapartes by Robert Gordon Anderson, pp. 129-142
    2. Cats by Frank Swinnerton, pp. 143-147
    3. Behaviorism by Bertrand Russell, pp. 148-152
    4. Caryatides by Robert Rutherford, p. 153
    5. The French Touch by Sophie Kerr, pp. 154-161
    6. Love, Arms, Song, and Death by Henry Morton Robinson, p. 162
    7. Gardens by Laurence McKinney, pp. 163-175
    8. To Men of Good Will by Herbert Parrish, pp. 176-181
    9. The Autobiography of a Sioux by Thomas B. Marquis, pp. 182-188
    10. The Raspberry Dress by Ada Jack Carver, pp. 189-197
    11. Conflict by Wilbert Snow, p. 198
    12. From Rodeo to Rotary by Erna Fergusson, pp. 199-206
    13. At the Poetry Contest by Barbara Madison Tunnell, p. 207
    14. The Affair of Monsieur and Madame by James Mahoney, pp. 208-223
    15. I Am Psychoanalyzed by Virginia Terhune Van de Water, pp. 224-229
    16. When Americans Discover America by Ernest Boyd, pp. 230-235
    17. To a Lady by Evelyn Bigelow Clark, p. 236
    18. The Holy Gull by Adriana Spadoni, pp. 237-244
    19. The Centurion by John Erskine, pp. 245-250
    20. [+]
      The Roving Critic by Carl Van Doren, pp. 251-255 - 3 Reviews
      1. The Orphan Angel by Elinor Wylie
      2. The Casuarina Tree by W. Somerset Maugham
      3. Three American Plays by Maxwell Anderson and Laurence Stallings
    21. [+]
      Short Cuts, p. 256 - 12 Reviews
      1. Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1926 by William Stanley Braithwaite
      2. This Believing World by Lewis Browne
      3. Darwin by Gamaliel Bradford
      4. England by William Ralph Inge
      5. Plato's American Republic by Douglas Woodruff
      6. An Autobiography of Abraham Lincoln by Nathaniel Wright Stephenson and Abraham Lincoln, ...
      7. Debits and Credits by Rudyard Kipling
      8. Introduction to Sally by Elizabeth von Arnim
      9. Rip Van Winkle Goes to the Play, and Other Essays on Plays and Players by Brander Matthews
      10. Demosthenes by Georges Clemenceau
      11. Pope by Lytton Strachey
      12. A Million and One Nights by Terry Ramsaye
8. [+]
  Issues of 1927 = 12 Issues, 263 Articles
9. [+]
  Issues of 1928 = 10 Issues, 225 Articles