Review of reviews and world's work (1890) (14597084027)
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Identifier: reviewofreviewsw40newy (find matches)
Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto
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A VIEW OF THE KITCHEN. HULL HOUSE, WHERE OLD-TIME IMPLEMENTS ARE KEPT. 692 THE AMERICAN REyiElV OF REI^IEIVS.
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A PARTIAL VIEW OF THE TEXTILE ROOM. HULL HOUSE. the discussion seldom eludes either the atten-tion or the grasp of the reader, however un-aware he may have been of the acute situ-ations described. At no point of her plea toconsider the spirit of jouth can any oneescape the power and pathos of the argu-ment against the toleration of conditionswhich brutally suppress the very nature ofchildhood and youth or of the argument forthe free development and worthy directionof youthful ideals and energies, now solargely lost or forced into antagonism tosocial progress. Out of the wrecked foun-dations of domesticity, the thwarted questfor adventure, the ignored house ofdreams, a.wistful, overconfident creature ispictured as walking through our streets andcalling out I am the spirit of Youth! Withme all things are possible. And then thosewho hear and see this figure of the futureare faced with these alternatives: Wemay either smother the divine fire of youthor we may feed it. We may either stands