Literary Pot-Pourri

September to June Impressions of a Professional Reader

Books about sex--the 17 unsuccessful imitations of The Sheik--the 102 detective stories in which the murder occurs in a hermetically sealed room sans exits or entrances-- innumerable books about small Middle Western towns--wondering why there should be so many books about small Middle Western towns--Babbitt--calling other people babbitts-- being called a babbitt-- The Bright Shawl with the only undersexed hero in recent fiction--goods books-- books not even a reviewer would sell second-hand--the first half of The Judge--Lady into Fox--Through the Wheat--A Pocketful of Poses-- Beasts, Men and Gods--letters by Franklin K. Lane--by Walter Hines Page--fat, interesting volumes and no time to read them in.

The Waste Land--Mrs. Porter full of soda-water -- jug-jug-tereu -- are they the greatest lines in modern poetry f--the row about The Waste Land--the row about the row about The Waste Land--One of Ours-- " -- France gave her to us, they murmured,' as they passed the statue of Liberty"--whee!--books about sex-- Is there a literacy Court of Star Chamber that meets at the Algonquin ? -- Mr. . Conrad's modesty -- Housman's Last Poems--an antique bitterness--laconic magnificence--the Clean Books' Bill and Justice Ford's unmarried daughter--wonder what Justice Ford's unmarried daughter thinks about it all?--Gertrude Atherton--Black Oxen--hoping against hope that the Steinach process of rejuvenation will not be applied to various literary prominencies--books about sex--a few books not about sex--Sabatini and the gorgeous return of cloak-and-sword.

Reviews of the greatest novel produced in Indiana in the last seven weeks--of the finest book of poetry yet accomplished by a native Malaysian between the ages of 13 and 13 1/2 --the review that devotes its attention solely to errors of punctuation--the review that is entirely about the reviewer's petit dejeuner--the blurb-- the blurb--the monstrous regiment of blurbs.

The Younger Generation, its decline and fall--oh yes, perfectly fine, perfectly fine but so many books--so many too many books on every conceivable subject.

Reviews--book-notes -- colyums-- the organization of literature like an automobile plant--occasional beauty, power or splendor--eternal colyums --book-notes -- reviews -- reviews -- books about sex. S. V. B.