Word: thackeray
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...both sensitive and powerful. It has profited by the battles waged by D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, and Wyndham Lewis for the freedom of literature; and shown that the novel has at last come into its peaceful own. "Riverhead" will probably be read and enjoyed, as the novels of Thackeray and Jane Austin are today, when most of its contemporaries are forgotten
...venerable Copey, one of the better known of Harvard's traditions, has given a reading in the Union just before the Christmas recess each year since the building opened. Last year he read selections from the Bible, Thackeray, Kipling, Stephen Leacock, and Robert Benchley '12, one of his former students, to an enthusiastic crowd of Freshmen...
...good man. He pronounces economics correctly, with a long e. Beware of statesmen who call it eckonomics. . . .* He does not care for wildcat literature. He sank his shafts deep into the solid ore of Balzac, Brontė, Cooper, Dickens, Dumas, George Eliot, Bret Harte, Hawthorne, Howells, Kipling, Meredith, Scott, Stevenson, Thackeray, Mark Twain. . . . There is nothing austerely highbrow in his choice: he enjoyed the same thrillers you and I were reared on. He knows his James Bryce, John Fiske, Parkman, Prescott, James Ford Rhodes, Trevelyan, Truslow Adams. . . . Among late American novelists his favorites seem to be Thomas Nelson Page, Tarkington, Edith...
...having ridden in a switchback at Wembley Fair in 1924 with her brother-in-law, Edward of Wales, who mischievously calls her "Queen Elizabeth."* News of the Duchess' "confession" was bracketed in British papers with this ultrasafe revelation: His Majesty the King-Emperor still reads and rereads Dickens, Thackeray and Trollope, has lately been dipping into Conrad...
Selections from Thackeray, Kipling, O. Henry and Leacock will feature the thirty-second reading of Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Emeritus, tonight in the Upstairs Common Room of the Freshman Union at 8 o'clock. Professor Copeland, who has given a Christmas reading at the Union yearly since its initial year of existence, will face, for the first time, however, an all-Freshman audience. Only first year men will be admitted, and as the Upstairs Common Room has a limited capacity, a great many of the members of the Class of 1935 will probably...