Abstract

The Country Editor Speaks

The article provides information about the book "Hello Towns," by Sherwood Anderson. For ten or a dozen years Sherwood Anderson has been a major figure in what for want of a better word one may call American letters. He has been a writer with a vogue. His following has been among those who were low in spirits, down on their luck, grouched at the world-which has included in these years, speaking broadly pretty nearly everyone in Christendom. Men in the mass probably get their philosophy from their conduct, and when they have been mean they are cynical. They think everybody has been mean. After the Western world had gone through the Great War, killing, lying, murdering, stealing, and everything, greatly to its own discredit, the Western world lost every sort of belief in the nobility of man; and having given up that, it lost faith in God, whatever He may be.