SOURCE: "Mr. Wescott's Third Book," in Dial, Vol. LXXXVI, May, 1929, pp. 424-27.

In the following review of Wescott's Good-bye, Wisconsin, Butts finds Wescott's style flawless but considers his subject wanting.

It was probably time for Mr Wescott to say good-bye to Wisconsin. For ten years or twenty he can leave it alone; by then he and the rest of the world may have made up their minds about the place in creation of the Middle West. Until it entered our geography, European conceptions of America were based on New England, California, and the states in the South. That America, our America, the tenacious, childhood's United States, is now out of focus and the imagination's new map as hard to make as if a piece off a dead star had landed and stuck on the earth's side, altering proportion, pace, gravity, the planets' give and take.

Good-Bye Wisconsin is...