one-hundred-night

Updated: January 22, 2026

There are abundant signs that the generation just coming forward will rejoice in such a pose. It is observable now in the colleges, where the young literati turn up their noses at everything American, magazines, best-sellers, or one-hundred-night plays, and resort for inspiration to the English school of anti-Victorians: to Remy de Gourmont, to Anatole France.

Henry Seidel Canby - Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism