We live in an age which eschews sentimentality as if it were a good deal more than the devil. (Actually, of course, a writer may be just as sentimental in laying undue emphasis on sexual crimes as on dying mothers: sentimental, like scientific, is an adjective that relates to method, not to matter.)

"Ten Books," The Southern Review (Autumn 1935) [p. 8] - Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964 (1980)