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This living ensemble of our country's literature presents every phase of modern American writing, and contains the latest and hitherto unpublished work of: Eugene O'Neill, John Dos Passos, Ernest Heminway, Robert Hillyer, William Ellery Leonard, Louis Untermeyer, Witter Bynner, Elizabeth Madox Roberts and others. This is the first year book of American literature and is highly recommended by Carl Van Doren, Elinor Wylie, Glenn Frank, Zona Gale and Hendrick Willem Van Loon...
...Copeland Associates (by invitation only), sit down, followed by a reading. Here Theodore Roosevelt used to come. Here now come J. P. Morgan and his partner, Thomas W. Lamont. Here Publisher George Palmer Putnam and perhaps Nov- elists Owen Wister and Arthur Train, Poets Conrad Aiken, Hermann Hagedorn, Witter Bynner-these and many a plain John Smith and Tom Jones whose only claims to fame, perhaps, were their selection of one of "Copey's" courses and their attendance upon his Monday nights at Harvard, gather around, shake hands and exchange greetings with the small man who seems to look...
...families to the French, in the region of Ouezzan, northwest of Fez. French communiques stated that the power of Abd-el-Krim, dauntless Riffian leader, is rapidly waning, as the Semadjas and other powerful tribes are submitting to the French. In the New Republic, U. S. weekly review, Poet Witter Bynner* wrote as follows...
Countee Cullen, 1G, has been awarded the Witter Bynner Undergraduate Poetry Prize for 1925. The judges of the Poetry Society of America's Undergraduate Contest, Sara Teasdale, George Sterling, and the donor, unanimously decided that Cullen, who is a Negro, should receive the $150 prize. For two years Cullen had held second place. When he wrote the poems that brought him the award, he was an undergraduate at New York University...
Gamaliel Bradford, Archibald Henderson, Luigi Pirandello, Witter Bynner, Joseph Collins-with these, among lesser names, did the Virginia Quarterly Review (issued by the University of Virginia) dress out a maiden number dated April, 1925. Editor James Southall Wilson, Professor of English at the University, explained that this was only natural. Old tunes best demonstrate a new organ. For the future, the Quarterly coveted "the adventure of presenting distinguished first work wherever it can be found." It would be, in a measure, "peculiarly concerned with themes growing out of the life of the South and especially cordial to the work...