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...aside in Niles [Mich.] as 'Have a Baby Week.'" He came in there like a lion one March "before they had horses and boats and when you wanted to go from one town to another, you had to take a train." Graduates of the Lytton Strachey school of informal biography may suspect Mr. Lardner of shoving fun at their alma mater, the way he takes liberties with prominent names and dates in trying to solve the enigma of himself in an intimate way. "The Taylor who was elected President," he says, for instance, "was Zachary Taylor." And then...
...excellent piece of work. It is a good example of interpretation, and conveys the real sense; it is graceful, keeps an even flow, and does not worry one with false modernism. It makes one forget that it is a translation--J. St. Loe Strachey, in the London Speculator. 4 volumes...
Editor, John St. Loe Strachey of the London Spectator (conferred last November) Litt.D...
...Passage to India." "The Constant Nymph." "The Green Hat," the biographies of Lytton Strachey, Shaw's "Saint Joan:" Mr. Walpose was many an instance to offer in evidence of the continued vitality of literature in England. Mr. Mencken dismisses each one with a contemptuous short. "I believe that Americans of the more reflective sort have had a dreadful lover does of such bilge...
Tonight's speaker is a graduate of Oxford, where he studied at Balliol. Since 1884, he has been engaged in journalism in London. From 1896-97, Mr. Strachey was editor of the Cornhill Magazine, and since 1897, he has been with the Spectator, whose list of editors he now heads. He has written books on various subjects, most of them on economics and sociological subjects. "The Madonna at the Barricades," his latest literary effort, is on the present generation...