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...Mencken has broadcasted a myth to the effect that there is an "American Language", some wonderful, polyphonic, polyglot thing to dream over and to be proud of. But someone is always awakening people from their little dreams. The recently organized "Committee on Everyday English", which is associated with the University Extension, has flatly asserted that English is the true tongue of America; and worse still, it intends to "restore the archaic and correct to popular speech until the latter shall become a well of English, pure and undefiled...
Messrs. H. L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan (editors of Smart Set) have long offered a custard pie (size 3½ by 4¾, actually baked and delivered) as prize for each month's most reprehensibly absurd statement in public print...
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. (publishers of "Borzoi" books), announced the publication of a new magazine, The American Mercury. Its editors will be H. L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan. Its appearance will be monthly, beginning about the first of next year. Those who are acquainted with The London Mercury, so ably conducted by the poet and parodist, J. C. Squire, will hardly expect the new Mercury to be a prototype of the old. The American Mercury plans to offer "a comprehensive picture, critically presented, of the entire American scene "-fine arts, politics, industrial and social relations, science. And it will...
...descends to the inmost seat of being.' Let it work while I sleep." Ernest Boyd describes J. M. Barrie as " the sentimental Scot raised to the nth degree, Harry Lauder without kilts." Elinor Wylie remarks of George Eliot: "her dark brown binding got into her style." H. L. Mencken, voting for Eden Phillpotts, says candidly: "Phillpotts seems to me . . . the worst novelist now in practice in England; certainly no small eminence," while Christopher Morley explains his only putting down nine items instead of ten thus : " I thought it best to leave one place open in case Burton Rascoe...
Slightly over a year ago Mr. Mencken was well described in the columns of The New York World: " A Boy I cannot Hand Much to Is Henry Louis Mencken, who Is Sadly lacking in Respect For the Anointed and Elect; He has no Proper Reverence for A Congressman or Senator! Great Names that Time can never...