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...LONDON VENTURE - Michael Arlen - Doran ($2.50). Again the "Harold Bell Wright of the sophisticates" tosses a volume to eager admirers. In this case, it is his first book, an autobiographical volume. We see the young Armenian in his early days as a lonely essayist in London. We meet for the first time Shelmerdene, "that lovely lady." We find incorporated a first draft of the first story in These Charming People. We learn, in a gracefully whimsical introduction, how it was that Mr. Dikran Kuyumjian chanced to adopt the less complex and more indigenous cognomen under which he has become...
...Crothers is pastor of the First Unitarian Church of Cambridge and is nationally famous as an essayist. His works include "The Gentle Reader", "Pleasures of an Absentee Landlord", "The Dame-School of Experience", and "How to Know Emerson...
...trial enough, without writing about town authors. Therefore, I am choosing one of the Vermont group with which to reopen my column after an ever-so-slight vacation. Sara Cleghorn has been lecturing at the School of English, Bread Loaf Inn, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt. She is poet, novelist, essayist. Those of you who read The Atlantic Monthly know her work well. I had always heard of her as one of the group of writers who live near or in Manchester, Vt.?a friend of Dorothy Canfield Fisher and of Robert Frost. In Who's Who you will find...
...Dublin boards. Of all these, the most thoroughly of the spirit and heart of Ireland seems to me to be Padraic Colum himself, looking for all the world like an elf, the best modern writer of fairy stories in my opinion and a poet of eminence, a novelist, an essayist, a playwright...
...this lecture, the English essayist and scientist will undoubtedly renew his attack on American colleges and universities, which he originally made in a CRIMSON interview some weeks ago, and which called forth a drastic reply from President Lowell...