The Invisible Censor

The Invisible Censor is a book by Francis Hackett. The opening note says the sketches and articles appeared in the New Republic, and thanks the other editors for allowing them to be reprinted. The contents list names, among others, Whisky, The Next New York, Chicago, The Clouds of Kerry, Henry Adams, William Butler Yeats and Okura Sees Newport.

The text says that Kerry knows what the trenches of Empire are already, and that Kerry has fought starvation in them, dug deep in the bogs between sparse ridges of potatoes, for all the years it can remember. The text says Henry Adams was born with his name on the waiting list of Olympus, and describes him as living part of the time in London, part at Harvard, teaching history, and most of the time in Washington. The text says it took some time to explain to Okura why this beach, once devoted to the collection of seaweed for manure, should now be dedicated to bathing, and that Okura grasped the main point, that it was a private beach.