Part 3
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“Hello Huck!”
Recall that golden day when you first read “Huck Finn”? How your mother said, “For goodness’ sake, stop laughing aloud over that book. You sound so silly.” But you couldn’t stop laughing.
Today when you read “Huckleberry Finn” you will not laugh so much. You will chuckle often, but you will also want to weep. The deep humanity of it—the pathos, that you never saw, as a boy, will appeal to you now. You were too busy laughing to notice the limpid purity of the master’s style.
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When Mark Twain first wrote “Huckleberry Finn” this land was swept with a gale of laughter. When he wrote “The Innocents Abroad” even Europe laughed at it itself.
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A Real American
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His fame spread through the nation. It flew to the ends of the earth, until his work was translated into strange tongues. From then on, the path of fame lay straight to the high places. At the height of his fame he lost all his money. He was heavily in debt, but though 60 years old, he started afresh and paid every cent. It was the last heroic touch that drew him close to the hearts of his countrymen.
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Poetry and Drama.
Prufrock and other Observations, _by T. S. Eliot_.
Noh: A Study of the Classical Stage of Japan, _by Ernest Fenollosa and Ezra Pound_. _$2.75._
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A Night at an Inn, _by Lord Dunsany_. _50 cents._
Psychology
Psychology of the Unconscious, by _Dr. C. G. Jung_. _$4.00._
The Psychoanalytic Method, _by Dr. Oskar Pfister_. _$4.00._
Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious, _by Dr. Sigmund Freud_. _$2.50._
The Neurotic Constitution, _by Dr. Alfred Adler_. _$3.00._
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, _by James Joyce_. _$1.50._
Pelle the Conqueror, _by Martin Anderson Nexo_. _4 volumes. $6.00._
Mendel, _by Gilbert Cannan_. _$1.50._
Dubliners, _by James Joyce_. _$1.50._
Miscellaneous
Le Feu, _by Henri Barbusse_.
Chamber Music, _by James Joyce_.
The Works of Anatole France. _Each $1.25._
Oscar Wilde: His life and Confessions, _by Frank Harris_. _2 volumes. $10.00._
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Transcriber’s Notes
Advertisements were collected at the end of the text.
The table of contents on the title page was adjusted in order to reflect correctly the headings in this issue of THE LITTLE REVIEW.
The original spelling was mostly preserved. A few obvious typographical errors were silently corrected. All other changes are shown here (before/after):
[p. 3]: ... And when she meets our gaze her eyes are laughter lit ... ... And when she meets our gaze her eyes are laughter lit, ...
[p. 3]: ... Her speech a wicked tale that we may vie with her ... ... Her speech a wicked tale that we may vie with her, ...