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...there be those who are distinctly "fed up" with "Main Street" and the like, they will appreciate the article in the current "Bookman" in which Archibald Marshall disposes briefly but effectively of the relentless realists...
...connection with the above it would be a shame to miss the wholly delightful parody of Wells contained in such historical papers as "The "Whiskey Rebellion" and "The Battle of Lexington" by Donald Ogden Stewart now appearing in "The Bookman". We are informed that the next in the series is to be "How Love Came to General Grant" done in the manner of Harold Bell Wright...
...prose, likewise, is a school of loyalty. There was much of Europe in his learning, as his memorable Dante essay shows, and the traditions of great English literature were the daily companions of his mind. He was bookish, as a bookman should be, and sometimes the very richness and whimsicality of his bookish fancies marred the simplicity and good taste of his pages. But the fundamental texture of his thought and feeling was American, and his most characteristic style has the raciness of our soil. Nature lovers like to point out the freshness and delicacy of his reaction...
...February issue of the "Bookman" is published an article entitled "Detestable Words." This gives a few examples of words which the editor despises. According to the "Bookman," "sense" appears as a verb in every form from the "father sensed his son's abstraction" to the "peeling infant sensed the coming of the succulent milk-bottle." "Poignant" is on the blacklist because of its downright stupidity, "stipend" because of its oily politician sound. "Remuneration" is a foolishly long latinized word, and "dainty" and "refined" are classed as belonging to the "chewing gum" variety...
...journalist, he first attracted notice as dramatic critic on the New York Commercial Advertizer and Bookman, which position he held for five years from 1897 to 1902. For ten years he was editor of Collier's Weekly, and in 1913 he took charge of Harper's Weekly...