I. Mr. Lowell's Work in England (page 193).
1. By what standards is the work of Lowell as United States Minister to England criticized?
2. Do these standards exhaust the qualifications of an admirable minister?
3. If not, what other standards would you suggest?
4. What is the _controlling purpose_ of the criticism?
5. In view of this _controlling purpose_, are the standards which the criticism includes sufficient?
6. Write a similar criticism on any of the following subjects:
The work of Mr. Goethals on the Panama Canal.
The career of Mr. Bryce as British Ambassador to the United States.
The career of James J. Hill, or of Cecil Rhodes, as Empire-builders.
7. Write a historical criticism of Lowell's career in England, _accounting for_ the attitude he assumed as determined by the understanding of America which the English nation of the time had, and by Lowell's character.
II. The American Business Man (page 197).
1. Criticize any of the following by accounting for their rise and their characteristics:
The "information" man at the railway station.
2. Write an appreciative criticism of the American Business Man as he might seem to an Englishman on his first trip to America; as he might seem to Plato; to Napoleon; to the poet Shelley; to Shakespeare; to a Turkish rug merchant.
2. What attitude does the author try to create in the reader? How would the choice of material have differed had the author desired an opposite effect?
3. Criticize, by relating to the times in which the subject appeared, the following: Cubist Art, Sentimentalism, The Renaissance of Wonder, The Dime Novel, The Wild-West Moving Picture Film.
1. Criticize, by the method used in this example: Gang Plows, Electric Street Cars, Football Fields, Art Galleries (their architecture), Adding Machines, Systems of Bookkeeping.
1. Criticize, by the method of standards, the following: American Costumes as Candidates for Universal Use, The Metric System, The American Monetary System, The Gary Schools, The Civic Center Idea.
1. If Gissing had been criticizing English cooking from the point of view of a dietitian, what standards would he have chosen?
2. Criticize modern American cooking by showing its rise and the influences that have controlled it.