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...Garland of Memories...
ROADSIDE MEETINGS?Hamlin Garland ?Macmillan...
...when Hamlin Garland was 24, he left his father's South Dakota farm and went to Boston, then U. S. literary capital, with $140 in his pocket. This book tells of his early struggles to become a literary man, his gradual progress, the famed friends, acquaintances, heroes...
...palaces and spoke with kings." When his money was just about gone he got a job lecturing at the Boston School of Oratory, met literary tycoons, got another job reviewing books for the august Transcript. But even after he had become an accepted shepherd on Boston's Mt. Parnassus Garland was a Western boy, had more than a tinge of the Western radical in him. He considered Atheist Robert Ingersoll "our greatest orator," and fell hard for Single-Taxer Henry George. Few U. S. writers have traveled the U. S. as Author Garland has. For the Boston Arena, "magazine...
...Garland met most of the big literary men of his day, liked most of them. William Dean Howells was his close friend. James A. Herne, actor-author of onetime famed play, Shore Acres, was another. Garland was one of the discoverers of Stephen Crane; he admired Crane's genius, deprecated his habits, gave him many an ill-received lecture. He venerated Walt Whitman and was indignant at the squalor of his Camden surroundings. Mark Twain, James Whitcomb Riley, Eugene Field, John Burroughs, Edward MacDowell, James M. Barrie, Rudyard Kipling, Bernard Shaw, Israel Zangwill, Henry James ?he knew them...