The ambush was done skillfully: one anonymous paragrapher wrote slyly that a reader "has been for several days afflicted with a lethargy, owing to the perusal of three chapters .
Whenever possible, the self-conscious young paragrapher proved his lack of "false modesty" by dragging in his family's name, pointing to a Vanderbilt "folly," such as belonging .
Arthur Brisbane, Hearstling paragrapher, applauded the State Department as follows: "Too bad Wall Street's boy financiers did not have somebody like Secretary Kellogg to keep .