Word: stevensons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interesting to see together three of the gayest spinners of romantic yarns. Lloyd Osborne, the son-in-law and collaborator of Robert Louis Stevenson, florid, tall, grey; George Barr McCutcheon, always jovial and kindly; Farnol, shorter than either of them, quite unimpressive until he bubbles over with some sudden enthusiasm for an anecdote...
This proposal, greeted with enthusiasm by most Presbyterians, now goes to a special Presbyterian committee (which includes J. Ross Stevenson of Princeton, William Pierson Merrill of New York) and will thence be reported to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church next...
Those who journey to Parnassus go at their particular gaits. Some hobble, like Carlyle. Some stagger, like Henry James. Some swing along gracefully, like Addison. Some minuet, like Stevenson. Some swagger, like Marlowe. A great, great many simply walk. By courtesy we name all manners of proceeding " style " " literary style." The road to the White House is not identical with the pathway up Parnassus. Yet those who walk must have a stride, those who speak must have a style, and Mr. Coolidge has just presented the public with a new specimen of the Presidential literary gait-in 1,120 words...
...lost works included drawings, etchings, zinc and copper plates by Pennell; all the oil paintings he ever made; all the prints of his famous Panama Canal series and the original drawings for various Henry James, Irving and Howells books; rare editions and presentation copies of Stevenson, Kipling and others; drawings by Aubrey Beardsley and various pre-Raphaelites; Mrs. Pennell's unique collection of books on cookery. Fortunately the Pennells' fine collection of Whistleriana had previously been shipped to America. It is now in the Library of Congress, to which they had also presented much of the destroyed collection...
...prevent the spread of the conflagration, the situation was reported to be well in hand, and, apparently, there was no danger to the historic Palais de Fontainebleau (a home of Emperors and Kings of France) or to the American colony at Barbizon (once the home of Robert Louis Stevenson...