Word: merediths
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...habits of mind by men not nearly so wise. The other noon in company with William Lyon Phelps, Clayton Hamilton, Jesse Lynch Wil-liams?an ill-assorted but renowned trio ?I had an opportunity to talk with Professor Matthews. His anecdotes contain memories of Mark Twain, George Meredith, Oscar Wilde. Genial, kindly, brilliant, gay, stimulating, he is all things a literary gentleman should be. Somehow, and quite without seeming to patronize him, I want to take off my hat to Professor Brander Matthews...
Edwin Thomas Meredith...
...McClure picked up as writers and presented to America in McClure's Magazine Kipling, Conrad, Doyle, Jack London, Henry, Tarkington, Meredith. His other contributors included Barrie, Anthony Hope, Robert W. Chambers...
Professor Bliss Perry will be one of the judges to select the winning stories in the Harper's Magazine 10,000 dollar prize story contest, the first competition of which closes March 31. Serving with Professor Perry as judges are Meredith Nicholson of Indianapolis, Ind., a noted novelist, essayist, and philosopher; and Zona Gale of Portage, Wis., one of America's ablest short-story writers...
...HOPE OF HAPPINESS?Meredith Nicholson?Scribner ($2.00). Bruce Storrs, young architect, World War veteran, was faced with an extraordinary problem. His widowed mother, dying, confided to him that John Storrs had not been his father, and begged him, when he was left alone, to seek out and watch over his real father, Franklin Mills, the dominating " leading citizen" of a nearby city. He obeyed?and in what strange ways he came into contact with his father and his father's family?how he did his best to steady his jazz-bitten but charming half-sister Leila?how he fell...