Gospel in his Baptist sermons in Brooklyn, temporarily forsook the holy path recently when he admitted to the congregation that he had been reading Sinclair Lewis. The Reverend Mr. Williams was pained with] Mr, Lewis' outlook on life and declared that, he thought the "scornful man"—ie. Mr. Lewis—the worst of three types of "badness." "I wish Sinclair Lewis would! take lessons from Warwick Deep-i." said the Reverend Mr. Willege is to blame for it] analyze the old fashi and the result of the analysis equals Sinclair Lewis, or any of of the undoly ca the United States. The seat of the scornful, the Reverend Mr. Williams thinks, university, Seat of the scornful is guilty of the Worst of the three groatest sins. Sinclair Lewis did graduate from a university, and he is scornful,, but his worst fault probably is that, he is a very poor novelist, although a very successful one." Whatever public opinion regarding Br. Lewis may be, the universities of America Should not be. blamed for his type of literary output. One product of} the American university is James Branch Cabell, possibly the naught jest_of American novelists. But Mr. Cabell has taken advantage of his education to the extent that he talks above the heads of those who have not had an equal education, and those who have, he takes for grant. ed, possess enough intelligence not toilet his clever words sway them from their respective routines of
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