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Nature of the Man. Among great modern scientists Edwin Grant Conklin stands out by being oldfashioned. He began his academic career as a country schoolteacher, dispensing all knowledge in the rural scholastic grab bag and performing as janitor to boot. Born during the Civil War in Waldo, Ohio, son of a country doctor, he almost entered the Methodist ministry but plumped for science instead. Ohio Wesleyan gave him his A.B. and A.M., Johns Hopkins his Ph.D. After teaching biology for 20 years at Ohio Wesleyan and elsewhere, he was summoned to Princeton...
...BRIDEGROOM GOMETH-Waldo Frank-Doubleday, Doran...
...Waldo Frank, 47, is an inverted Theodore Dreiser, a modern transcendentalist, a mystical Marxist. He is also, at times and in spots, a forceful novelist. Combining passion and penetration with plodding Joycean prose and purblind bookishness, he is a perfect layer cake of the admirable and the irritating...
...LETTERS OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON-Columbia University Press-6 vols...
...best letters are brief, direct, factual. The best letter writers are usually women and soldiers, who observe closely, state simply. Worst letter writers are usually writers-who philosophize. Among topflight U. S. letter-writing writers have long been Henry Adams, Henry James, John Hay, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Last week readers who could spare the price could look at all the Emerson letters they were ever likely to want, in six good-looking, gilt and salmon-pink volumes. Of these letters, claims Editor Ralph Leslie Rusk, 2,313 have never been printed before...