Pleasant Grove Review | 1933-06-23 | Page 8 | Some Tart Criticisms of Literature's Great

Scr-.s Ta.rt Cri'.icisrn3 of Literatu-.-e's Great T'.. awe v.-::h '.' ;::'! we u"ially fl".'.i t ar-:.t in' n was not al-Wii.-s sIi:t."I l.y tl;-!r i.nt'nin- ; rai-.'i-J. Sph-y and lart remarks m:t! hy th wrlslris fraternity about r ; : -i r l-mtl.ers are frequent,, arid the CohVn Book Magazine . gives a f'-w n:ii'!i'S. j "I.n'ant." remarked FM-'ar Allan I'oe, -U not nil a fool. Mr. Willis : Is not quile an as. Mr. I.ongfel-low I.ongfel-low will steal, hut perhaps he cannot can-not help it." Sidney Smith remarked of Daniel Webster that he struck him "like a steam engine In trousers," and William Wo-ilsuorlh paid of the Brownings : "So Robert Browning and Miss I'.arrctt have gone off together. to-gether. I hope they understand each other nobody elxe would." When some orn" asked Charles Dickens how he liked Wordsworth: "Like him!" roared Dickens. "Not at all ; he is a dreadful old ass." And George Moore once ohserved that reading Conrad was like chewing India nihher.