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...Denis George Mackail is only 39 but The Square Circle is his 14th book. Refreshingly respectable, he was educated at St. Paul's and Oxford, is married, has two daughters, lives quietly in London where he is a member of London's quietest, most respectable club, the Athenaeum. Other books: Bill the Bachelor, Greenery Street, The Young Livingstones...
...Author, John Middleton Murry, minor soul, has one claim to fame: he was the husband of the late Katherine Mansfield. Two years before her death in 1923, Murry left his job as editor of the London Nation & Athenaeum; later started a monthly magazine of his own, the Adelphi. In Son of Woman he says he founded the Adelphi purely as a vehicle for Lawrence, and expected that Lawrence would come back to England to edit it. One of the most unpopular literary men in England, Murry was the original of the cruelly pilloried Editor Burlap in Aldous Leonard Huxley...
...Athenaeum Club in Madrid, crowds cheered wildly when the Republican firebrand Professor Miguel de Unamuno sputtered...
...English Liberals, of whom there used to be a great many, used to read the famed weekly Nation & Athenaeum. It reached its height of influence under the editorship of the late Henry William Massingham. After his death it declined steadily, despite the efforts of John Maynard Keynes and Arnold Rowntree who took it in hand. Last week the few remaining Liberal readers lost their paper to the New Statesman, brilliant Laborite weekly, with which it was merged. Title of the combined magazines is the New Statesman & Nation; editor is Kingsley Martin Young, economist, onetime leader writer on the Manchester Guardian...
...Priestley) as looking at first glance "like a rather hard-bitten city clerk. At a second glance, he looks like a gnome. . . ." He was born in London's East End, among the docks; was a sailor, newspaper correspondent, war correspondent, literary editor of the London Nation and Athenaeum. Other books: The Sea and the Jungle, Old Junk, Under the Red Ensign, Gallions Reach...