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...expected to publish at least one book a year. He tried in The Gang to present a faithful picture of the folkways of New York City?extraordinary, colorful folkways, as native as the customs of gypsies, or of South African tribes, or of the dwellers in Thomas Hardy's Wessex...
...most of it is so very good indeed! "The Deacon Speaks" is so much the real Kipling that Kipling need not be ashamed to own it. The Dunsany piece, "Apotheosis and the Peer", strikes this particular admirer of Dunsany as one of the high points in the collection. "A Wessex Tale" is quite Handyesque in tone and manner, though a keener study of Hardy might reveal to the writer the secret of that sureness of touch that makes the consumate artist. Joseph Conrad in the bathtub is almost Conrad's self, and Edgar Masters' cutting edge is in at least...
...Romance of the Rose," by J. S. Hugh '13 and W. F. Merrill '13, and Percy MacKaye's New England sketch "Chuck" will be dropped. In their places will be acted "The Three Strangers," an adaptation by Leonard Hatch '05, of Thomas Hardy's like-named story of Wessex, and "Ygraine of the Hillfolk," a poetic drama by R. E. Rogers '09. The first tells in humorous, racy and exciting fashion of the escape from prison of a fugitive who is to be hauged for the theft of a sheep. The second is a story of revenge...
...Lancaster; "Sir Walter Scott", A. Lang; "A Memoir of Jane Austin", J. E. A. Leigh; "Red Saunders' Pets", H. W. Phillips; "Evolution, the Master-Key", C. W. Saleeby; "The Struggle for Self-Government", L. Steffens; Storm's Sammtliche Werke, 8 volumes; "Fenwick's Career", Mrs. Humphrey Ward; "The Wessex of Thomas Hardy", B. C. A. Windle; "The Land of Heart's Desire", W. B. Yeats...
...long time die out, it took a milder course. Soon Northumbria took the lead in literature, and gave birth to one Caedmon, a monk in Whitby monastery, and the first true English poet. The other poets of this division of the Heptarchy were Aldhelm of Wessex, Bede, King Alfred and Cynewulf. Wessex took the lead in rose and produced King Alfred, St. Dunstan, and Abbots Wulfstan and Aelfric...