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...HUDSON: A PORTRAIT-Morley Roberts-Dutton ($5.00). A kaleidoscopic picture of the many-sided Hudson, done with honesty, humor and appreciativeness by his great and good friend. This is not a biography but a casually constructed group of stories and criticisms that merge into a coherent whole. Hudson stands, a hawklike, savage, difficult figure outlined in sweeping strokes against the background of a loveless marriage, drab boarding house surroundings, and fame that came too late for him 'to enjoy. His is the spirit of genius; he loved the windswept downs, the wild barren places, the creatures of the forest...
...without remembering that he is Scotch, that he is not only reticent but shy in private life, that his mind is scientifically intellectual, and that few if any men have been able to pass the barrier which he has erected around his inner personality. The late Lord Morley knew him perhaps better than any other man--and Morley was a kindred spirit...Severely intellectual, kind and sympathetic, but unapproachable and never hearty, vigorously honest, passionately devoted to certain ideals, capable of an emotional appeal which was seldom employed--it is not strange that the two men should have been drawn...
...Harvard Glee club will render as "Morning Hymm" by Henschel, for its light song," My "Ponnie Lass" by Morley, for the prize song, while the college selection will be "Up the Street" by Morse. At the close of the programme all the glee clubs together with the University Glee Club of New York City will unite in singing Kremser's "Prayer of Thanksgiving...
...increased to seven. The editorials which formerly issued from the liberal pen of Simeon Strunsky had gone?for Mr. Strunsky had departed to The New York Times. In their place was the form and, in good part, the editorial substance of the Ledger. The Bowling Green, on which Christopher Morley played so many jovial games of literary nine pins, had been subdivided into small lots, on which Clinton W. Gilbert, author of The Mirrors of Washington ana correspondent of the Ledger, paragraphed with brutal frankness about Washington politics. Last but not least, the face value of the issue was changed...
...last evening on the Bowling Green, Christopher Morley retold A Love Story...