Show Reveal Sherman as Live Critic By FRANK A. A HUNT men When n th the clash of ot rapiers rapIer drew our to the fact tact that Henry flashing literary critic was wae engaged In ft vely duel we turned about to study II f an t. t Can It be we exclaimed that our favorite coiner of ot phrases to a dolt our flatterer of ot mud found an aD antagonist worthy of ot has haa Who Is the audacious young man who ares ea Why to-Why by my soul It is 18 Stuart P Sherman a mGr mer professor of ot English f kt he University of Illinois one Illinois one of the despised clan of professors for tor which H Henry has s much an aversion v rAn Ana as 85 we WO watched t e more wo we that tricks and thrusts failed tailed to overawe his opponent I that Henry was really compelled to be on th the defensive at times though In InYa blustering Impatient sort of way as I if tribe he begrudged the time necessary to the tho Instructor s. s But But Sherman It develops Is a man to reckoned Wei-reckoned with and all this Is only to a review I of his book preliminary ie a V volume lu by thO the vi way which gf h reader can afford to Ignore Sherman Bherman discusses certain Individuals and tendencies In the light of ot Americas America's vital tradition sO BO that this group of studies of or depth and meaning as a comment com corn ment anent upon American civilization In the Very tery first chapter the writer takes a thrust at his hia enemy entitled Me Menken Men Men- ken the nue J Fille and the New Spirit Een k Tho The Jeune flUe Is the new rea reader er ex explains ex- ex plains the tho professor protessor He lie says She veil In the English and Mountebanks the Scandinavian misanthropes th German egomaniacs and bove bove all allt In the later Russian novelists arazy razy with war taxes x hunger anarchy vodka and 3 O Orman i philosophy o hC Imagine lII a thousand nd thus and ind you have the tho conditions heady MadY for tor the iho advent of ot a a. new critic point enters at a a. hard gallop t pattered with mud mutt II H. L. L high thus thus Justifying the maxim Aller Anfang is Schwer He lie leaps from tIrom om the laddie with saber Hashing flashing titles his in li a a. church shoots the thel priest hangs hanga the professors exiles ex ex- iles the academy demy burns burtia the library university nl y a and a amid the h 0 Y 1 tS t c a new v school of isn m on modern German principles but I 1 should be inclined to trace rather lEckerman Eckerman In short Sherman claims that her lessons in derision In cynt Um lam and contempt of ot which she was before that ho can ruin certain ry tastes but that ho has nothing In tn their place Sherman holds that the popular con- con eption of ot l Franklin rl based on his early it I erroneous lIe He shows I low Ben In later y years ar seemed to I vire a high degre of polish from brush- brush brushA A the tho big men of ot Europe that all alt altI wrought ht upon him and I ho hosed led the 1 printer In fact tact that I ten en even stepped a bit while In gay I aree ree a one has referred the errata P f I. I a nce f-nce to animal spirits free tree Inking and bad company says Sheri Shern Sher- Sher mn tan n and when one has baa explained i iu of ot his maturity by alluding Indulgent d temper of the tho French r Lt ig eo N t gl ocl ty In which l he ho then lived e ono one may maya I a five vell candidly admit that Ht St. St Francis Francia d. d cl hu at a more mo conspicuous Jewel W hIs crown of ot virtues than did Dr to discredit the asserI asser- asser Jon on thet Em Emerson non owed any great In- In n Ion to lO Kant and his German fol- fol I we H. H says aya la that most of ot such gena gen- gen rat a n ns as ho he was of re- re from the tho German makers system P d perhaps encountered in Plato Pinto and etl eloy he had much cultivated l a. III m Hero lIero I. I is a 1 quotation given from of ot Theodore Roosevelt which herman harman offers otters Let I the tho hu man of learning the man of ot I tt tl tiered of ot that queer and leap cap temptation to pose to himself and L Others und and tho cynic as tho man manh emotions and beliefs h hO has han outgrown OUtgrOW laTman e maT to whom good and evil are as asI I The poor poorest st way ay to face tace life lito is lit ItH a Hn er O Others her Americans of ot whom he be writes I are e Walt Valt I it h hitman To i Miller Andrew Came Came- I 1 e aI eland and the Adams family Charles carne I 1 Sons Son New York |