Word: harpers
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THACKERAY AND His DAUGHTER- Lady Ritchie-Harper ($5.00). Thackeray's granddaughter has edited this new collection of letters and excerpts from the journals of her mother, Anne Thackeray Ritchie. Included are many new letters of Thackeray, some of the most amusing ones written during his lecture tour in America. Among the pages one comes upon Ibsen, Keats, the Brownings, "dear old Mr. Carlyle,," Darwin, Ruskin, Stevenson, "lunching with us at Paris, tossing back his hair...
...went to Boston, taught bicycle riding. Then he became editor of the Wheelman, a bicycle paper. He went to New York and started a fiction "syndicate." Finally, in 1893, at 37, he started a magazine. It grew. In two and a half years its circulation was greater than Century, Harper's or Scribner's. That is how the world came to know Samuel Sidney McClure...
Professor Bliss Perry will be one of the judges to select the winning stories in the Harper's Magazine 10,000 dollar prize story contest, the first competition of which closes March 31. Serving with Professor Perry as judges are Meredith Nicholson of Indianapolis, Ind., a noted novelist, essayist, and philosopher; and Zona Gale of Portage, Wis., one of America's ablest short-story writers...
Married. Margaret Wilson, author of The Able McLaughlins, Harper prize novel (TIME, Oct. 29), to G. D. Turner, tutor in Brasenose College, Oxford; at Paris...