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...more by suggestion and implication than by action. Save for the first act which starts at a fountain-head of irritation, and streams along until the floodgates burst and matricide results, the force of the piece is derived from the pathetic circumstances which inextricably bound the lives of the essayist and his demented sister...
...above is true because in 1793 a boy was born who was destined to become one of America's greatest literary figures, called Washington Irving. He was one of the most versatile figures in the country's literature. An ambassador to Spain, a biographer of Mohamet, of Washington, an essayist of some eminence, a lawyer of none, the coiner of the phrase, "the almighty dollar," all these things he was. For delicacy and precision of style he has few superiors in America. "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "The Alhambra" show a grace and beauty that is carefully wrought, while...
Died, Enoch Arnold Bennett, 63, popular, prolific British novelist, playwright and essayist (The Old Wives' Tale, Hilda Lessways, Lord Raingo, Imperial Palace, etc., etc.); of typhoid fever (first diagnosed as influenza), after failing to rally from a blood transfusion; in London. Born of a British middle-class family, he studied law, became a solicitor's clerk, then an editor of Woman (weekly). He free-lanced for many a journal until his literary output brought him riches, made him one of Britain's four wealthiest writers (the others are Shaw, Barrie, Wells). Thereafter he lived in Europe's grandest hotels, bought...
...Tomlinson has never been accused of arson, no London bobby has ever arrested him for setting the Thames on fire. A solid citizen in literature's republic, he is known, liked, admired by other solid citizens. Primarily an essayist, a ponderer, his earnest musings appeal to lovers of quiet English and of quiet English sense (which has in it a touch of the lyrical, a dash of the salty). This book of essays and sketches should cause no fluctuation in Tomlinsons, which should remain steady, safe...
...After leaving school, some men go to college, some to work, and a few to Harvard," declared, one essayist. "When these few get to Cambridge they spend most of their time fighting for 'dear old Alma Martyr, taking Physics and studying objects that can be described as 'completely globular in every dimension,' and reading scenes from Shakespeare's 'Twelfth-Knight'" ... or so the section men might be led to believe...