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...course of a 1,623-word mass-circular letter mailed last week, soliciting new subscriptions (and offering royal scarlet art-pattern atlases as a premium), wrote Publisher Wilfrid John Funk of the Literary Digest...
Educated Industrialists. As everyone from the U. S. knew, it was flattery for Charles Wilfrid Valentine, professor of education at the University of Birmingham, to say that the best brains of the U. S. are attracted to business and the second and third best to the professions. But he, bitter against the educational recalcitrancy of England, wanted to make a point against the "hard-dying social stigma which attaches to being in trade" in England. He wants English young men to study for business. Present British industrialists he holds in contempt. Many lack wits enough to be army corporals...
Margaret, Wilfrid, Stephen, Mollie, Robin, Angela live in an English country house. In the beginning of the book they have tea in the nursery, go to school, behave like English children. The close and careful breeding that feeds the playing fields of Eton is theirs. Later the restraint of this upbringing makes differing marks on their characters. Mollie foregoes her music and submits to fate and a father who tends his children without tenderness. Margaret's nerves, sharpened by inhibitions, end by shattering her mind. Wilfrid, a normal eldest son, inherits peace and his father's lands. Robin...
...WILFRID PARSONS...
...young Author Rogers is not overweening nor has he overreached his powers. He is mature, not precocious?maybe as the result of a cosmopolitan upbringing. He and his brothers were schooled in Switzerland. His summer vacations from college were all spent with the Meynell family in England?authors Wilfrid and Alice and their talented children. After college, where he had played at football and tennis as well as writing for the Advocate and Hasty Pudding (drama), he joined the World's Work staff, edited a roaring book of drinking songs (Full and By), contributed essays to the Saturday Review. Gusty...