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Morris' new biography, written with sympathetic irony, draws on J. W. Mackail's exhaustive work of 1899 and adds psychological material once thought improper. Morris shines through the pages as a prodigious Victorian, one of a long line of self-confident zealots whose faith and energies gave them a stature that the modern mini-man can only wonder at. A dozen specialist scholars -in politics, poetry, architecture, painting, interior design, cabinetry, fabrics-would be needed to catalogue his achievements. The aim of his life was to restore craftsmanship and beauty to a deprived industrial working class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Gothic Socialist | 12/8/1967 | See Source »

Gleason L. Archer, Jr. '38, or Norwell and Lowell House, has been awarded the Bowdoin Prize for his translation into Latin of a selection from J. W. Mackail's edition of Virgil's "Aeneid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ARCHER WINS BOWDOIN PRIZE IN TRANSLATION | 5/4/1938 | See Source »

...education that stresses individual creativeness and originality. To illustrate his ideas he tells the story of a student who came to his office once to enquire about some question of syntax. Instead of answering the question directly Professor Hillyer launched into a discussion of the beauties of Mackail's translations from the Greek anthology. He was rudely awakened, he says, by an efficient voice that demanded a direct answer to what seemed to the student a momentous question. "I cannot doubt." says Professor Hillyer, "that, although my information enabled him to correct the single sentence he had in mind...

Author: By J. C. R., | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 1/10/1935 | See Source »

...Mackail, whose last book, "The Square Circle", was a Book of the Month Club selection, has written a pleasant and amusing tale, almost too full of coincidence, but so cleverly written that no one feels any particular objection. "David's Day" is ingenious and entertaining, not good enough for a book club to select it, but good enough...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 4/12/1932 | See Source »

...SQUARE CIRCLE-Denis Mackail- Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). Charles Dickens would have liked this book. It ought to be good enough for most people. Author Mackail has made himself the chronicler of London's "Tiverton Square" -one of those quiet upper-middle-class residential oases in the roaring metropolitan desert. Like Manhattan's Gramercy Park, the Square has a sacred enclosure to which only residents have a key, and within the pale stands the statue of some respectable and forgotten person. Children play there while their nurses gossip; from most of the Square's houses sober citizens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Round the Square | 5/11/1931 | See Source »

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