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...Floyd Dell, whose Moon-Calf and The Briary Bush were ranked high by many critics among contemporary realistic novels, has finished a new story. It will be called Janet March and will be published in the autumn. Meanwhile, at Croton-on-Hudson he is attempting to play tennis and to educate his young son Anthony Dell, who, if he has not already commenced to talk, will do so very soon...
...Floyd Dell is a slight, shy, sensitive man, essentially poet in temperament, but turned irrevocably novelist. He is a conservative by nature, I believe, but intellectually a radical, his life has been led among radicals. " Politics," he will tell you now, "have nothing whatever to do with letters." For that reason, he has turned his political ideas into critical channels and his ability to analyze our current literary product is appreciable. During many days and nights spent in his home, I have heard only one political discussion, and that one, to my untutored brain at least, as harmless...
...another with The Masses and The Liberator, but he likes to feel that his active editorial days are past. He has also written essays, poetry, plays, criticism. Two general books, one of them the excellent Were Ton, Ever a Child? were published before his first novel. Dell is a conscientious workman and a profound student of psychology. He has taught himself to write well and he is forever striving to learn more. I have always felt that he will one day rank as a major American novelist...
...purple wastes of the Arizona desert" even including the special "Indian" music. It is followed by a pseudo-historical play, "Napoleon's Barber" by Arthur Caesar, of a familiar pattern. The third play, "Goat Alley" by Ernest Howard Culbertson, is saved from being sheer melodrama by its characterization. Floyd Dell's scintillating little comedy "Sweet and Twenty" and "Tickless Time" by Susan Glaspell and George Cram Cook, though the latter is more or less trick writing, are highly amusing and the first notable plays of the group...
...Nichols, G. R. Perera, J. J. Phelan, R. S. Philips, F. T. Potter, H. F. Potter, Henry N. Pratt, Henry Kimball Prince, R. L. Raymond, Ernest E. Schefer, K. S. Safe, F. A. O. Schwarz, David Sears, J. H. Sberburne, P. S. Sprague, Bentley Squire, Brooks Stevens, Dell H. Stevens, S. E. Tabor, Samuel Towne, A. H. Tully, T. L. Turney, Thomas L. Wells, Newlin Wilds, J. D. Winans, L. R. Nichols, W. W. Wood, Wilber Whittemore, Donald McVickar, Oliver LaFarge, Grinnel Knowles, G. M. Kendall, R. D. Gerould, R. H. Sears...