Word: cannan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reluctantly given by the University, and with the hope and expectation that the end of those three years would see him back again. Some Englishmen had questioned the right of an American to hold the chair in the London School of Economics which had been held by Edwin Cannan, but Professor Young so won all English economists that he was elected president of the Economic Section of the British Association...
ANNETTE AND BENNETT-Gilbert Canaan.-Seltzer ($2.00). A novel complete in itself as far as the plot goes but also forming part of "the Lawrie Saga"- a literary sextet the composition of which has occupied Mr. Cannan's attention for the last ten years or more. The depressing environment of Thrigsby-a dingy manufacturing town-and a certain ingrown Puritanical stodginess of character combine to crush the Lawries and their connections under the weight of their own respectability. Some try to escape-James Lawrie via unintelligible humor and the pothouse-Annette, his daughter-in-law, by having quantities...
...Possibilities of the Novel" was the subject of the address by Mr. Gibert Cannan before the Liberal Club last evening...
...Cannan traced the history of the European novel from Don Quixote through the Picaresque novel. Richanism fielding and Dickens to the modern workers, and concluded that at present "there is a big, unconscious, temperamental revolution giving on, what, when it becomes conscious will force the masses to read with unprecedented eagerness...