Word: merediths
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...Secretary Wallace has been editor of Creamery Gazette, Farm and Dairy, Wallace's Farmer. Ex-Secretary Meredith (under President Wilson) has published the Farmer's Tribune (Des Moines) and started Successful Farming...
...recorded the habits of prominent men of the past, tending to the conclusion that great achievements have been made perhaps as frequently by smokers as nonsmokers. For instance, among the former: Washington, Gambetta, Bismarck, Mazzini, Kitchener, Hobbes, Spurgeon, Huxley, Keats, Browning, Kingsley, Wordsworth, Lamb, Carlyle, Emerson, Dickens, Tennyson, Meredith, Stevenson, Howells, et cetera ad infinitum, not to mention the well-known excesses of Grant and Mark Twain. On the other hand: Lincoln, Greeley, Wilson, Roosevelt, Wellington, Balzac, Goethe, Tolstoi, Ruskin, Haeckel, Bacon, Whittier, etc. Obviously, tobacco can have had no beneficial effect other than from habit on the great deeds...
...story of Bartholow is human matter fit for the pen of James of Meredith not unlike "Modern Love" in theme and manner but Meredith devoid of ornament. Bartholow, celebrating liberation of soul and intellect, discovers late the treachery of the liberating Raven "a resident savior domiciled", serene, a hypocrite redeemed by understanding. The woman, Gabrielle, whose tragedy is just a foil for Bartholow's reveals how superficial insincerity can stultify a spirit over-prone to casual conformity, until it dies unnourished. Like a "confidant" the other character--perhaps the post--is an incongruous philosopher who talks a Latinized American appropriate...
...longer heard talk of Sherwood Anderson or of T. S. Eliot, of this modern literary quarrel, or of that new play; but Colonel George H. Ham, another Canadian humorist, told of good old colonization days in Winnipeg and points west. Literary talk was of Mark Twain, Dickens, Meredith...
...read authors like Thucydides, Aeschylus, Horace, Tacitus in the original is of infinitely more value than the knowledge of somebody else's ideas about these men. Much may be learned from translations about an author's thought and the composition of his works, but nothing whatever of what Meredith calls the "fine flavors", and nothing of the music of his verse or prose. Many a man regrets, as the years go by, that he did not devote himself while in college to mastering the ancients in their own language. This means hard and steady work, with a constant interchange...