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...before he was eight. The schools he later attended had no deep influence on his broadened young nature, though he became thoroughly grounded in French, German and Italian, and was not hindered in developing his taste for literature. At 15 he substituted Shelley for the Bible. Goethe, Heine, Swinburne, Whitman were major prophets. He was shipped to Australia at 16?a shotgun cure for chronic appendicitis ?and while teaching school in the desolate bush was "converted," by reading the pragmatic philosophers, the evolutionists and a religiously-minded biologist (James Hinton), to a rational mysticism that found...
TIME'S reviewer vows that he read It's Not Done from cover to cover at one uninterrupted sitting. Subscriber Painter's contention that "Chesterbridge" means Philadelphia is sound. Who can the hoary poet "Walt" be, across the river from Chesterbridge, but Walt Whitman, who lived in Camden, across the Delaware from Philadelphia, during his last years...
...only two, among 148 leading dispensaries of higher learning, that do not offer courses in U. S. literature. Princeton, to be sure, was contemplating the revival of a rather sweeping course called the "Literary History of American Ideals" (Milton, Burke, Paine, Franklin, Edwards, Emerson, Thoreau, Whittier, Longfellow, Whitman); but Bates had not even contemplations to report...
...CRIMSON reporter then ventured to ask if Walt Whitman at least did not possess some of the robust masculine qualities which are attributed to him. "As in Sandburg, these qualities exist in Whitman's words only," Mr. Hillyer replied. "The sentimental note of his early stories was the underlying one in all of his works, even after he had picked up that trick of bold, virile lenguage which made him famous...
...upright in its reporting. Always it has been respected by pressmen, which is a sharp criterion. To work on its staff was a pleasure and an education, as realized by such famed personages as George Wilkins Kendall (one of its founders and a Texan pioneer), Lafcadio Hearn, Walt Whitman, Irwin Russell, Page M. Baker, Pearl Rivers (Mrs. Nicholson, mother of Leonard K. Nicholson, President of the Times-Picayune Publishing Co.), Stephen Crane, George W. Cable, Brander Matthews, Henry Rightor, Catherine Cole...