Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 164, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1914 — Searching Criticism. [ARTICLE]

Searching Criticism.

Five-year-old Herbert, scion of a bookish family, had learned to read so early and"ko readily that his first glimpses of storyland were growing hazy in his memory. One day.he com tided to his mother. “Ruthie showed me her new book today, and it's the queerest thing you ever saw! Why, it just cays, ’ls it a dog? It is a dog. Gan the.dog run?’ and a lot of things [like that ! • ’Course I was. too polite to say so, but It didn’t seem to me the style was a Mt juicy!”—Lippincott’s.