Word: writing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Aside from the fact that the incident you quote from the Mercury is related inaccurately in the Mercury itself, and that the writer of that article pretended to write a character study of me without ever having given me personally an opportunity to give him my side of the story, there isn't very much to say; except that you are publishing a fine magazine...
...gift of the Bishop of London is in the form of a "Dictionary of Authors", compiled by Nathan Prince, of the class of 1718 in the University, and Tutor and Fellow of Harvard for 20 years. His intention, as expresseed in a note on the fly-leaf, was "to write down the Lives, Characters, and Works of all the Authors in those Arts and Sciences which I intend to gain an insight into." Some 276 pages are then filled with lists of authors, with information about them and their books, which Mr. Prince intended to read...
...Summer letters, written to him while he held office in Washington during the critical period of the Civil War, are largely from disgruntled gentlemen who criticised the government by writing to men in power, much as do those who write to their Congressmen with their grievances today. One correspondent of Mr. Sumner, for instance, writes to say that, in his opinion, the trouble with the Navy was its intemperance...
...Western minds, Rama Krishna, then, is an eminently unsatisfactory religious leader. It is impossible to place him. He did not do anything great; he merely lived. He could barely read and write. Yet he numbered among his disciples the greatest social reformer in the India of the time, the greatest dramatist, and two or three of the greatest scholars...
This decision is in strong contrast to the custom of most of our modern writers. They feel called, by some great power, to produce voluminously; and they feel pledged to publish voluminously. Every thought which their minds conceive, every word which their facile pens write, must be perpetuated in print. They are writing literature which the public should have. Even after their death, their heirs gather up the last scraps of paper and edit them, so that the world may have all that the authors wrote...