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The Great White Negation

BY BENJAMIN DE CASSERES. To wish for the fulfillment of your desire—that is childish. To fear the fulfillment of your […]

By BENJAMIN DE CASSERES Events in Russia have brought Maxim Gorky to the front with a bound. For him literature

O, when I am safe in my sylvan home, I tread on the pride of Greece and Rome;And when I am

By BENJAMIN DE CASSERES All the great novelists are fatalists. Admission or denial on their part is beside the question.

BY BENJAMIN DE CASSERES NO drama is now complete without its cynic or cynics. Some plays have a boss cynic

By BENJAMIN DE CASSERES HAWTHORNE drank from the beaker of inexhaustible shadows; his soul sought instinctively the obscure and the

BY BENJAMIN DE CASSERES Dramatic criticism is of three kinds: There is the critic who goes to the theater to

“The Faith of Robert Louis Stevenson,” by John Kelman, Jr., might with appropriateness have been called “An Inland Voyage.” We have

By BENJAMIN DE CASSERES Taine’s theory of art was that an artist stood in exact and definite relations to his