Word: authorative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gabriel is the general editor of the impressive Pageant of America series issued by the Yale University Press in fifteen volumes. He compiled two of the volumes in the series himself, "Toilers of Land and Sea" and "The Rise of the Frontier," and also is the author of "The Evolution of Long Island" among other works in the field of American History...
...genial wit who looks like a diffident Boston banker and has been rumored to be the prototype of The Late George Apley, Mark Antony DeWolfe Howe is a writer of light and occasional verse, author of 28 books, including the Pulitzer Prizewinning Barrett Wendell and His Letters, the monumental five-volume Memoirs of the Harvard Dead in the War Against Germany. A professional Harvard man like Holmes, loving Boston no less than Holmes did (although he was born in Rhode Island, brought up in Philadelphia), Howe is an overseer of Harvard, was for 25 years a trustee of the Boston...
...Holmes as a forerunner of the moderns-the cool-headed doctor who not only wrote a medical classic on puerperal fever, but occasionally, as in Elsie Venner, anticipated Freud; the science popularizer whose Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table came nearer to Darwin than to the Transcendentalists; the author of The Professor, the awkward but potent anti-Calvinist Babbitt...
...Author Howe is at his best, however, in recapturing the charm and wit which held the Saturday Club and Boston dinner tables spellbound, prompting Charles Kingsley to stammer on his U. S. visit: "He is an insp-sp-sp-ired...
...fights were on paper. He saw revolution in Munich and Berlin. He was held up when reactionaries broke into a Bavarian legislative session, kidnapped radical delegates. There are enough such climaxes in the 543 forthright, unsparing pages of Fighting Years to make it a valuable record. But Author Villard writes of revolution and shifts in The Nation's policy in the same steady way-for him, obviously, the battles are more important than his book...