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...what good came of it at last?" Quoth little Peterkin. "Why, that I cannot tell," said he; "But 'twas a famous victory...
...contemporary books to be presented to President Roosevelt Tuesday by the nation's booksellers to supplement the permanent White House library. The committee of judges which made the selections included Bliss Perry, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, Emeritus; Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Alexander Woolcott, Christopher Morely, Julia Peterkin, and William Lyon Phelps. Perry is reported to be one of the Pulitzer Prize committee, although the judges' names have never been officially revealed by Columbia University...
Died. Doris Ulmann, 50, portrait photographer; following a brief illness; in Manhattan. She collaborated with Julia Peterkin on Roll, Jordan, Roll, a photographically illustrated study of Southern Negroes...
...different in this respect are the other negroes, who seem to be seldom outside the church. Where modern amusements are either too far different, too expensive, or too wicked, the meeting-house bell is heard by all. Mrs. Peterkin has depicted the peculiar religious zeal of the rural negro with humor and understanding. Her description of the frocked deacons, the collection plate en parade, "testifying," and the weird frenzy of the confessional "stomp" seem incredible to one who has not witnessed these things first hand. A more lofty spiritual tone pervades the sonorous "lining out" of hymns to those...
...Peterkin, as in "Scarlet Sister Mary," treats her subject with great delicacy. her familiarity with the dialect and temperament of the Southern plantation negroes is everywhere evident, and there is in her manner a great deal of the idyllic charm which distinguishes the dialect stories of Joel Chandler Harris. Happily this book does not attempt an expose of social conditions. Rather it catches an aspect of the American Scene which will not long be with us, and one which literature has seldom illumined with any degree of veracity...