Can You Read—?

(In this column will be given each month a resume of current cant which, as an intelligent being, you will go far to avoid.)

The reactions of the two Chestertons in The New Witness.

Midsummer fiction issues of The Century or Scribner’s or Harper’s.

The Continent on Edgar Lee Masters’ Spoon River Anthology: “Each poem is in the nature of a confession, philosophical or satirical, telling secrets of human nature, good or bad—mostly bad. Because of its novelty and originality the book has attracted attention far and wide.... His attitude toward religious believers is a wrong one, and readers may well wonder at the scarcity of sincere, sensible Christians in Spoon River.”