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William Lyon Phelps, Lampson Professor of English at Yale University : "In Scribner's for April I wrote: 'My present Irish setter, Rufus H. Phelps, is ... the most literary dog I have ever known. He has been stroked by W. B. Yeats, patted by Hugh Walpole, petted by G. K. Chesterton, caressed by Joseph Conrad, and kissed by John Galsworthy...
...FOOTNOTE*WHAT Is MODERNISM-Leighton Parks, D.D.-Scribner...
...bicycle riding. Then he became editor of the Wheelman, a bicycle paper. He went to New York and started a fiction "syndicate." Finally, in 1893, at 37, he started a magazine. It grew. In two and a half years its circulation was greater than Century, Harper's or Scribner's. That is how the world came to know Samuel Sidney McClure...
LAZY LAUGHTER-Woodward Boyd -Scribner ($2.00). The Montgomerys and their relatives were charming people but oh, so lazy-and Dagmar Hallowell was no exception. She did try to make out the firmest sort of a schedule for herself sometimes -a schedule that included rising at seven-but how could she ever keep it when she always overslept? She débuted, she considered a stage career, she tried to be a working-girl, she fell in love-but in each case laziness sucked the strength from each promising adventure. At last she plucked up courage to go to Chicago...
...pause to think that they are indulging in an economic luxury which they may not always be able to afford. Mr. Gerald Crittenden, an able advocate of the worth of the liberal college, states this most emphatically in an article which he contributes to the November number of Scribner's. According to him the liberal college will speak to its prospective students in some such terms as this: "What we teach you here will not assure you of a job when you leave us, or even add one dollar to your income. In lieu of material advantage we offer...