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Occasionally the name of Author Sidgwick is mentioned in this country, only to be vaguely connected with the best-selling novelist Sedgwick (with an "e"), and dismissed. Some few, however, cherish an entire shelf of first editions by her with an "i," thus reflecting the wide popularity Mrs. Sidgwick holds in England. Closely related to the Bensons (A. C. and E. F.), she belongs to a literary tradition of quiet humor, leisurely manner (461 close-packed pages to the present volume, the average modern novel boasting some leaded 300). Her particular knack is to vivify a biggish assortment of characters...
...arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune went last week a letter from Ellery Sedgwick, distinguished editor of the Atlantic Monthly. Excerpts...
...Sedgwick's "LaFayette" Listed...
Died. Dr. John Sedgwick Billings, 58, chief medical officer of the New York Stock Exchange and Curb Market; of Manhattan; of septic arthritis; at Manhattan...
Thus by insistence upon the letter of the law, in obedience to Minister of Justice Barthou, the Versailles court made a glaring example of the case of a U. S. citizen of first prominence. In Manhattan his wife, the onetime Miss Nathalie Sedgwick remarked, "Poor Bainbridge! He never seems to get what he wants!" In more decorous mood, Mrs. Colby has said that Mr. Colby is "far too colossal a figure" to have been encompassed by any of her novels...