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Fifty Years Ago
Mencken, H. L. | October 16, 1929 issue

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This article literally appraises the book "The Eighteen-Seventies. Essays by Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature," edited by Harley Granville-Barker. A certain hush, delicate and refined, hangs over these papers. They were all written for what appears to be called the Royal Society of Literature, and it is obvious that the essayists take their membership with a considerable gravity. And well they may consider, for example, Sir Arthur Pinero. In America he strikes connoisseurs as no more than an out-moded dramatist, and even his knighthood no longer blinds and enchants, for he has been forced to share it with a rabble of shady journalists, chain-store magnates, and vaudeville clowns.

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EIGHTEEN-Seventies. Essays by Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature, The (Book); GRANVILLE-Barker, Harley; LITERATURE -- Societies, etc.; LITERATURE; BOOKS & reading; UNITED States
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