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...already dead. The shades of Europe's mauve decade had become old-fashioned memories; Huneker's men of the hour were but ghosts. It is significant that not a single subject of these selected essays was a U. S. citizen. "Essentially and inescapably civilized" is what Editor Mencken calls Critic Huneker, by way of congratulating him on being, in effect, European...
...died James Gibbons Huneker. Prohibition, as Editor Henry Louis Mencken not irrelevantly announces in the introduction, "was one year and twenty-one days...
Critic Huneker was born in Philadelphia (1860), studied art in Paris, traveled widely, returned to the U. S. Traveled or settled, he produced gargantuan quantities of newspaper criticism of all the arts. Everywhere he drank beer and talked. Says Editor Mencken: "I have heard them all, but he was the best." Critic Huneker is generally credited with having been "the chief man in the movement of the '90s on this side of the ocean." Among his books: Chopin: The Man and His Music; Ivory Apes and Peacocks; Steeplejack; Painted Veils...
...young enough to regard a prostitute as an adventure. . . . The third group was the group of serious students who were not social about it . . . went in for higher mathematics, and for chess, and for physics." Mr. Lipshutz made this analysis because he is a reader of Henry Louis ("Hatrack") Mencken's American Mercury and had read therein of two $500 prizes to be awarded for the best analysis of four years at college. The other prizewinner was Olive Brossow, this year's product of Northland College, Northland...
...Americanisms to be despised? Henry Louis Mencken, defining them, says "The English seldom devise anything as pungent as rubberneck, ticket-scalper, lameduck, pork-barrel, bootlegger, steamroller (in its political sense). Such exhilarating novelties are produced in the U. S. every day, and large numbers of them come into universal use, and gradually take on literary dignity. They are opposed violently, but they prevail...