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Frank Swinnerton has arrived in America almost on the heels of the publication of his Young Felix?, a novel rapidly gaining in public favor, and critical acclaim. Swinnerton, himself, is one of the most amiable men in the world. He is short?with small hands which he uses much to emphasize conversational points. He has a red beard, wears glasses, smiles almost constantly. His witticisms?mainly anecdotal and dramatic?follow one another in rapid succession. He is amazed and delighted by America and feels himself mothered by her hospitality...
...under rocks. He feels his way with his pincers, because, despite his eight staring eyes, he cannot see straight ahead. His courtship is an epic, ending in the slaughter of the ardent male by his cannibal mate. Fabre in his last years, though always living in poverty, received the acclaim of Science and of la patrie. He was the friend of many great men-John Stuart Mill, Hugo, Pasteur, Frédéric Mistral, Rostand, Maeterlinck (of whose The Life of the Bee he was the direct inspiration) -but to the end he retained his superhuman patience, humility, cheerfulness...
...musicianship is generally recognized as a sensible and well paying profession, and pupils go to study with the feeling that they are making their way to a secure living rather than with toplofty visions of artistic transcendence and starvation. The organists, while seldom riding in the sunlight of popular acclaim, represent one of the soundest phases of American music. There is a large demand throughout the country for good organists for church positions. The pay is not vast, but it is steady. There is a better and surer living in organ playing than there is in, say, poetry. The organist...
...usually have functioned too well. It is a long standing characteristic of Melba, as of most prima donnas, that she likes to have the lioness' share of the applause at performances and of the complimentary columns in the newspapers. When a tenor sings with her and gets more acclaim than she does or as much, she looks around for a new tenor. The ambitious fellows with their press agents and claques have presently discovered to their sorrow that the hand clappings and press articles which they have manufactured for themselves, instead of impressing Melba favorably and inspiring...
...cool-headed fellow well versed in the tricks of operatic art, understood all of this. When he was engaged to sing with Melba and went to England, he kept clear of both press agents and claques. He sought neither publicity nor applause, contented himself with a modest and sincere acclaim and was genuinely glad when the grand enthusiasm went to Melba. This attitude delighted her, and soon it was known that where she was invited Johnson was to be invited also. Half the time she was indisposed and could not accept invitations, and Johnson went alone...