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Died. Henry Garland Dupre, 50, Representative from Louisiana, "handsomest man in Congress"; at Washington, from a stroke of apoplexy...
...York Tribune: "It belongs with Hough's Covered Wagon, Miss Gather's One of Ours, the earlier studies of Garland and other of our sturdy native writers...
...Hamlin Garland, broad-shouldered, powerful, with his mass of iron-gray hair, is one of the gayest and yet most dignified of our older men of letters. He has the faculty of understanding and being interested in the moderns, mixed with a splendid detachment that is unusual. His two autobiographical volumes form, I suppose, one of the classics of our age. His novels, sketches and stories are filled with rugged beauty and the spirit of adventure...
...Walter Hamp den's company at the National theatre, Manhattan. His wife, a sister of Lorado Taft, the sculpter, is a gracious hostess and a beautiful woman. She is the heroine of A Daughter of the Middle Border and the frankness and yet good taste with which Mr. Garland describes his life with her is one of the high points in literary autobiography...
With Hamlin Garland, the other day, was Henry B. Fuller, come on from Chicago for a visit, perhaps to live in Manhattan permanently. Fuller, whose delicately conceived novels and verses are ranked high in contemporary literature in spite of the fact that he has written vers libre, would probably be considered by the sex-ridden rebels of the new writing a Victorian. He is far from that. This shy, small, smiling little white-haired man is a volcano of opinions and ideals. He reads The Dial? which is often more than I can do. He follows current writing avidly...