The Archive · 1928

Michee) Arlen's, "The Green Hat

Remains tone conclusion, namely, that Mr. Ernest M'lton availed himself of an opportunity to air adjectives, of which he possexses large droves, to say nothing of his collection of' the particles speech, in general, His nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are the envy of the composer of cross word puzzles, the insidious influence of which upon literature is all too nlanly seen throughout. this book. True, in the earlier chapters, there tare several fine bits of description, particularly that of the celebration lof the Mass. These, unfortunate! fare soon succeeded by typical amples of "fine writing in turn, are emball 3 quotations from the classics, in the original, thus serving: prineipalemphasize Mr, Milton's lite

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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