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mdp.39015031076584-03	nan	The Dial  v.78 1925	1925		.txt	text/plain	35218	1719	73	And if, on finishing it, we understand style the less, we may congratulate ourselves upon having seen Mr Brownell the more, and having enjoyed his jibes at some mythical body of thought which, so far as the mute and inglorious oncoming generations are con- cerned, might in some vague way be H. L. Mencken, or non- existent, or both. KENNETH BURKE Сете urse BAZALGETTE AND THOREAU Henry THOREA, Bachelor of Nature. Although the author temerariously thwarts the current of rhetorical emphasis, failing sometimes to create a tune of the kind which pertains to either prose or verse; although he assumes large licence in making the adjective a noun, and at other times, a verb; in making nouns, verbs; and transitive verbs, intransitive; although he not infre- quently couples with the why and where, far and high” manner of writing, a midwife cat,” “the mountain is me” vernacular, he neverthe- less presents enticingly, the world of the weasel, the crow, and the chip- munk; depicts “the lantern on the snow, behind each clod, a mouse's ear; and in bringing to us eagerly the atmosphere of a loved place, the attitude of a loved human being, modifies our consciousness of a some- times faulty taste in subject and in treatment.	cache/mdp.39015031076584-03.txt	txt/mdp.39015031076584-03.txt