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...White House came John Masefield, Lincoln-like British poet of the sea and of the chase, and Mrs. Masefield. He found the President "talkative and extremely affable." Later a Washington correspondent asked him: "Did you talk about poetry* or books?" "No," said Poet Masefield...
...list of the popular English writers of the day would show more college men than non-collegians," declared Mr. Ellsworth, "but among the latter are many whose books we like: Arnold Bennett, Gilbert Chesterton, William Black, Joseph Conrad, Rider Haggard, John Masefield, George More, Eden Phillotts, Israel Zangwell, and Bernard Shaw. H. G. Wells took honors in zoology in a college of science; Robert Hichens attended a college of music; Thomas Hardy acquired an education at evening classes in King's College, London; Kipling went to the United Service College, not an institution famous for turning out literati George Bernard...
ODTAA?John Masefield?Macmillan ($2.50). The tumultuous imagination of John Masefield, rather than fling itself upon an actual people, time and country, with the consequent danger of doing violence to truth, has invented not merely a fantastic tale but complete ethnological, political and geographical data to go with it. Highworth Ridden, youngest son of a hardbitten English squire, is followed through a color-splashed whirligig of adventure in the Republic of Santa Barbara (roughly, South America), where he chances to feel warmly toward the daughter of a great house politically hated by the slightly insane local tyrant, Dictator Lopez. There...
...year appeared Thomas Hardy's "Human Show, Far Phantasies, Songs, and Trifles," a book of poems which, though chiefly written late in his life show that this very great writer still has undiminished strength and beauty of expression, quiet wit and sometimes grim but always sympathetic outlook. John Masefield's "Trial of Jesus" is a dramatic rendering of the gospel narrative, using largely the biblical expressions in a manner which is decidedly interesting. As acted in Masefield's own small theatre it is said to have been moving and impressive. Cameron Rogers has compiled an interesting and very well illustrated...
...artist; he was a craftsman; his craft, the faultless delineation of a ship. Not for him was the cloudy, light-streaked glory of Turner's seas; not for him the salty terror of Winslow Homer's rockbound coast; Reuterdahl never played ghost with John Masefield's Wanderer; Reuterdahl went with natty-suited officers of the U. S. N. Yet, as a craftsman he was master of color. He could brighten the bulkhead of an officer's messroom. He could color the Missouri Capitol with brilliant sea-script proclaiming, "We [the Navy] Are Ready Now." The Naval...