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Rh phrases of negro dialect are a deep disappointment. A familiarity with negros and the fact that the adaptations are intentional cannot absolve such Aryan doggerel as:

Such lines are startlingly at variance with real negro parallelism as we have it in:

and are incompatible with that perfect fragment of negro cadence which Mr Lindsay has combined with it, "Every time I hear the spirit moving in my heart I'll pray." A stentorianly emphatic combining of the elements of the black genius and the white, but emphasizes their incompatibility. In The Congo, the "Baboon butler in the agate door," "And hats that were covered with diamond-dust" are pale substitutes for

In the Booker Washington Trilogy,

recalls The Charge of the Light Brigade. The Daniel, and Simon Legree have intermittently fantasy and beat, but the refrain, fabricated or authentic, "Let Samson be coming into your mind" is inexplicable from any point of view. In stage directions, the most expert craftsmen such as Shaw and Yeats barely escape pedantry and one feels that however necessary to Mr Lindsay's conception