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...choice of interpretations is sufficiently catholic. Sherwood Anderson leads the American writers treated; Henry James comes last. Of foreign writers the names of Anatole France, Joseph Conrad and John Donne suggest a diversity of patients. Among the poets in the doctor's waiting-room are Blake, Keats and Poe. Weber and Fields are not too low nor is Eleanora Duse too exalted for attention. Among the best studies are those of Brigham Young, Theodore Roosevelt, Sir William Osier, James J. Corbett and George Cohan. Only a hint of the complete list may be gathered from these names...
...Thomas Jefferson, friendly, charming, and thoughtful letters written years after their respective presidencies, when they had retired from public life and were watching the changes in the world and the new nation with detached philosophic calm is a very entertaining book. Another book of letters, by Edgar Allan Poe is an important addition to American literary biography...
During his courtship: "He is the greatest genius since Edgar Allan Poe...
Edgar Allan Poe. For some years there has been a succession of Poe dramas rustling in and out of managers' offices in search of a production. John Barrymore almost accepted one of them last year. Presumably it was a good one, as one hears were several of the others. The one that finally came to light is not a good one; nor is it accurately performed by James Kirkwood...
...promising group from the 1928 eleven, has been working out under Coach Roper, who has sent the candidates through his usual early drill in the fundamentals. Of the men, 50 have been retained for the present on the University squad, while the rest have been sent to Coach Poe to make up his famous "Omelettes," or scrubs. A separate squad of those who were not fortunate enough to be included in these groups is also hard at work in charge of Coach Foster...