Word: written
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Moses Smith narrative proved to be a real historical find, as it is the only record I have even seen of the 'Ironsides' engagement written by a seaman and an eye-witness...
Foremost among the books announced for late fall publication by the Harvard University Press, many written by Harvard University Press, many written by Harvard men, is the publication of the first series of lectures given last year by Professor Gilbert Murray under the Charles Eliot Norton Foundation. This is entitled "The Classical Tradition in Poetry," and will be published late in October...
...title is taken from a letter written by Mrs. Crosbie to her lover which summoned him to her bungalow the night of the murder. This letter, in the hands of the Chinese woman, leads to the discovery of her guilt after acquittal by a jury trial. The Trial of Mary Dugan. As the ever laggard audience strolled into the National Theatre they found the curtain up. It was an uninteresting, drab courtroom scene they saw and it, too, filled up gradually with actors-lawyers, policemen, scrub women, gum-chewing onlookers-who meandered onto the stage as haphazardly as the audience...
...Significance. Not often does a first novel carry a weight of emotion that makes so fussy a critic as famed Alfred Noyes say: "It is the kind of novel that might have been written by Keats. . . ." The untruth of this statement is valuable as an indication of the flustered enthusiasm this book has caused, will cause in multitudes of unstable and sentimental readers. Yet it would be unfair to hint that the sentimentality of Dusty Answer is a false emotion. Though it may be an exaggerated one, its exaggeration is a sincere illusion, not a self-conscious parade of intensity...
...make his people move about stiff and surprising but none the less actual, like the preposterous people of an antique tintype, brought suddenly to life. The Author. A graduate of Princeton in 1903,* Paxton Hibben has served in the Army, the diplomatic corps, has received a Russian decoration and written two other books-one about Greece, one about Russia...