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Died. George W. Cable, 80, famed writer of romances of the New Orleans Creoles; in St. Petersburg, Fla. After the Civil War (when he served in the Fourth Mississippi Cavalry), he endeavored to revive the former glories of the South by writing of its people, its customs. The Creoles of Louisiana were immortalized in Old Creole Days. The Grandissimes, The Creoles of Louisiana, Madame Delphine, Dr. Sevier. When ignorant and prejudiced persons objected to his delineations of octoroons and quadroons and his delicate ridicule of some of the provincialisms of the Creoles, he went North and made his home...
...short story's pedigree. She arranges in a line short stories selected from Petronius, Boccaccio, Voltaire, Hans Christian and Sherwood Anderson, Merimee, De Maupassant, Chekov, James Joyce, Henry James, Jules Laforgue, Paul Morand. Before each story is a brief critical preface describing the influences that shaped each writer, the influences that each set in motion, the significance of each in the line of heroic descent...
...meeting (they did not actually meet) of H. L. Mencken and Stuart Pratt Sherman. These pen-enemies were in the same room, guests of the same host. Within the space of ten minutes I had talked with them both and was struck with the fact that Mencken the writer corresponds to Sherman the man, and vice versa. Mencken has the almost perfect social sense. The editor of The American Mercury is stalwart, hearty, genial, lovable. He is so entirely forthright that one is immediately impressed with the fact that he is at heart a Puritan. He exudes stern morality...
Died. Mrs. Ellen Key Howard Morgan, granddaughter of Francis Scott Key, famed writer of The Star Spangled Banner; in Lexington...
...writer of earnestness, intelligence and accuracy, as well as of force...