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Title: America's oldest daily newspaper. The New York Globe
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Globe and commercial advertiser, New York
Subjects: Globe and commercial advertiser New York (N.Y.)
Publisher: (New York)
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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The multitude of individual inquiries and letters of grateful appre-ciation of his work that come to him testify to the need of the service herenders. BOOKS. Convinced that mere book notices of the kind generally published areof small value and no general interest, The Globe, in its Saturday issues,supplies book lovers with three columns of book criticism of a quality asrare among newspapers as it is welcome to their readers. Mrs. N. P.Dawson, from whose pen they come, follows without deviation a simplerule. For uninteresting books she has no space. With uninterestingideas about books, whatever the merit of the books, she has no patience.Sne selects books to write about only because they are interesting, andshe publishes what she writes about them only when what she writesseems interesting. Possessed of a fine gift of sympathetic appreciation,she misses little of value in contemporaneous literature, a fact which hasgiven to her work a special charm and significance no reader of her 73
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74 columns can fail to notice. Large numbers of letters of grateful acknowl-edgment afford convincing evidence that talent of the highest order is notwasted in the service of journalism, and that intelligent New Yorkers arenot too busy to give attention to intelligent reviews of books worth reading. THE THEATRES. The drama, though fallen perhaps from its high pretensions as agreat art, has many votaries in New York, and The Globe has alwayssought to promote their legitimate interests by critic-ism free from narrowprejudice and sophisticated cant. The plays offered are treated as whatthey are, and not as something very different from what they are, contraryto the practice of much theatrical criticism of the day. What Globecritics like of what they see and hear they tell about; what they disliketney tell about, too, subject only to the rule that they shall give a reasontor the impression created. Competent to pass on the merits of plays andacting, they are not possessed by the delusion

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