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...most significant figures in the progress of American letters. There is the University of Chicago, with its Robert Herrick, whose Homely Lilla brings him back to fiction after several years of silence. There is Evanston, with Keith Preston, the gay columnist and gayer Greek professor, with Henry Kitchell Webster and Edwin Balmer, both popular novelists. There is Schlogel's, chiefly picturesque as a cafe by reason of pre-prohibition memories, where gather the denisons of The Chicago Daily News, where one may find Harry Hanson, the Heywood Broun of Chicago; Ben Hecht, who aims to shock; and last...
...student is engaged in a game with the professor. There is not even a game going on in the library. The library assistants there do not attempt to watch the students; they trust them. We have no doubt but that the most awkward thief could get away with Webster's Dictionary. This is not in suggestion...
...George R. Agassiz, Mrs. George P. Baker, Mrs. Henry S. Grew, Mrs. B. Nason Hamlin, Mrs. Louis K. Liggett, Mrs. Charles Mason, Mrs. John B. Paine, Mrs. Benjamin F. Pitman, Mrs. John Reed Post, Miss Evelyn Sears, Mrs. Nathaniel Thayer, Mrs. Edwin S. Webster, Mrs. A. Winsor Weld...
Some Adventures in Nudity The Story. John Webster, small-town manufacturer of second-rate washing-machines, falls in love with his stenographer and runs away with her. He leaves behind him a bovine, 17-year-old daughter and a stodgy wife, who immediately poisons herself. He has an unaccountable tendency to take off his clothes, with or without provocation. He introduces the subject of his prospective elopement by parading up and down his room, characteristically naked, before a picture of the Virgin, until his wife and daughter come in, find him, and think him crazy. He is inclined to agree...
...Significance. With this aggressively commonplace plot and in a style painstakingly simple, Mr. Anderson attempts the well-nigh impossible. His object is to show, through John Webster's experience, the mystery and miracle of the commonplace seen with the vision of inspiration. John Webster's love gives the world new aspects. The fronts of houses seem to have fallen away, and he can see the lives of the people in them. Every episode, every object, takes on for him a fresh beauty. He tries to give some of this sudden light to his wife and daughter...