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Novelist (The Broughton House), essayist (The American Mind), biographer (Walt Whitman, Whittier), he is a sparkling ingredient of Boston's erudite Tavern Club. There, in the little Colonial clubhouse hiding in a courtyard behind the Teuraine Hotel, he converts fellow members to the Americanisms and poetics of Walt Whitman. With Professor Charles Townsend ("Copey") Copeland he attends the club's dinners, carrying lighted taper in hand, singing "Wreathe the bowl with flowers of soul," and wearing a bright-hued vest with evening dress. To recognize the decade in which a member was admitted, each Tavern Clubman sports a dinner waistcoat...
Readers of the Court Circular of the London Times last week learned that another U. S. heiress had become a British peeress. Mrs. Cara Leland Broughton was the elevated lady. Sister of Col. Henry Huddleston Rogers, Manhattan oil tycoon, and aunt of much-married Millicent Rogers Salm Ramos, she is a recent widow of Urban Hanlon Broughton, a British engineering tycoon, to whom a title had long been promised. Britons found more interest in the new title than in the new peeress who bore it. By Royal decree, Mrs. Broughton became Cara, Baroness Fairhaven, in honor of the fishing village...
...three persons designated to receive a peerage one has died in the meantime. No matter. The dead man's son, Urban R. Broughton, will receive that to gain which his late, rich father, Urban H. Broughton, perpetrated so many philanthropies-including the donation of Ashridge Park to the nation...
...professorship of English at Princeton, a position which he retained until becoming editor of the Atlantic Monthly in 1900. In 1909 he became professor of English Literature here and from 1909 to 1910 was the Harvard lecturer at the University of Paris. Professor Perry is the author of "The Broughton House", "The Plated City", "The Powers at Play", "The Amateur Spirit", "Whittier", "The American Mind", "Carlyle", "The American Spirit in Literature", "A Study of Poetry", and "Life and Letters of Henry Lee Higginson...
Corp. Henrty W. Broughton...