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The Penalty of Being Right
Grattan, C. Hartley | July 3, 1929 issue

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This article presents information on the book "American Estimates," by Henry Seidel Canby. "American Estimates" is not a very interesting book. It is repetitive-points are made over and over again; it is lacking in emotional force; and it is not distinguished by any extraordinary intellectual acuity. It is distinguished rather by an unusual command over the data of modern literature and the clarity of the writing. Canby suffers by being presented in extenso. Canby is a middle-of-the-road man. He is intelligent, well-informed, firm in his desire to know the past as well as the present, and deeply concerned that something be made (in an intellectual sense) out of modern life.

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AMERICAN Estimates (Book); CANBY, Henry Seidel; BOOKS; LITERATURE; EDITORS; HUMANITIES
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