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...among those who did not lift their voices to welcome the prodigy was Edwin Markham, Honorary President of the Poetry Society of America. Poet Markham is old; a snow white beard depends from his chin; perhaps because his long experience has rendered him dubious of prodigies, he examined the little Crane girl's poems with critical attention. Of The Janitor's Boy he said nothing. But last week, when he read her second volume, Lava Lane, he hinted a courteous skepticism. Last week he said to a newspaper reporter...
Chicago en fete, led by its Mayor, Dever, one of the Illinois Senators, Deneen, and three railway Presidents, Rea of the Pennsylvania; Holden, of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy; Markham of the Illinois Central, celebrated the opening of its new $60,000,000, 1,200,000 square feet, eight-story (potentially 21 story) Union Station-"one of the very largest in the world and certainly the world's most modern and most complete large station in all respects...
...that they discussed proposals for the U. S. entry into the World Court. ¶Mrs. Coolidge gave her third garden party in a heavy rainstorm. The party was held indoors and on the porticos, and the garden was viewed from a distance. The story got about Washington that Edwin Markham, venerable author attending a White House garden fete, was approached by his handsome hostess who, recognizing him, exclaimed: "How do you do, Mr. Markham? It was so good of you to come." He eyed her appraisingly and asked: "Well, young lady...
Died. Henry Harrison Markham, 82, Governor of California (1891 to 1897), at Los Angeles. He served in the Union Army under General Sherman in his march...
...Markham, unlike G. K. Chesterton, is delighted with the works of Amy Lowell. "I think well of Amy Lowell," he said. "indeed, I have an admiration for her achievements. She has applied the n. w. doctrine of poetry in a way that has not destroyed the poetry of her meters. At times wonderful lines flash out of the tides of her poetry; and many of her poems have a deep and human import and have a creative and fusing spirit of a fine poetic...