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...entirely through privately circulated catalogs. About six feet tall, bald and pink-cheeked, Tom Clarke was a man of bound less energy, though a childhood attack of diphtheria left him with a lame foot which he dragged all his life. He was one of the founders of the swank Brook Club, also served as Shepherd of the plebeian Lambs. For years he never missed a first night on Broadway, yet was always at work at 8:15 o'clock the following morning, writing all his business letters in longhand. And when he bought pieces of art, he paid cash...
...every trick of phrase, every contemporary allusion that might make it obscure or tedious in the future." Thus followed his use of the Biblical "thee" and "thou" and his cultivation of the flowing and repetitive simplicity of oral narrative. The care that Moore lavished on every sentence in "The Brook Kerith" and "Heloise and Abelard" will excite the wonder of the uninitiated. Mr. Morgan's analysis of the results of this superhuman care is indeed subtle and illuminating. Yet even after such an analysis it is hard to see a revolution in fiction in the rhythms, the repetitions...
...appear, is uncomfortably aware that they order these things better in England. This popular U. S. attitude toward fox-hunting is reflected in the jolly apologias emitted from time to time by U. S. foxy grandpas. Latest view-halloo was sounded by Harry Twyford Peters, Master of the Meadow Brook Hounds. Written primarily of and for the manure set, Just Hunting is not to be mentioned in the same breath with Siegfried Sassoon's masterly Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, but even to readers who have never seen the world from the vantage of horseback it presents...
Among his books of poems have been, "A Boy's Will," "North of Boston," "Mountain Interval," "New Hampshire," "West Running Brook," and "A Lone Striker...
...Smith was born in Portland, Maine, attended the Westbrook Seminary and Tufts College, where he received his A.M., and then became an instructor in Greek at West brook...