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Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume XIV, Issue 12, 1 June 1924, Page 407

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IN" AMERICA. . . The "Church. Times" says:-rln this country even ■ the most " advanced" writers do not clothe their work m futuristic English.' That phase has been reached, apparently, m. the U:S.A. We have no .Gertrude Stein here. . It is not the English but the American "Bookman" which informs us that "Gertrude Stein : has blossomed forth again." .It appends a specimen paragraph from her latest masterpiece. Let the reader take his head firmly, between, his hands. Then he is ready— and let Mm ponder this : Guess a green. . The cloud is too hold, collected necessary pastes m that shine of old boil and much part, much part m thread and land with a pile. The closeness of a lesson to shirt and the reason, for a pale cullas is what is the revolution and retaliation and serpentine illustration and ; little eagle. A . ..long little beagle, ...a long little scissor of a kind that has choice, all this makes a collation. . It does indeed. We feet sure it does. And not merely a collation but . a banquet. Yes, when the next batch of ill-written, underbred,, unsavoury novels drives us near to despair, we shall, picture an American critic confronted by half -a^doz^^ books done m futuristic prose;' For something, at least, we can still : be thankful. ■■■'""