Word: twain
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...might begin by saying that we have but little sympathy with the fastidious critics who find Mme. Farrar's conception of Joan of Arc a little too robust. Their own preconceptions of the character are, it is to be feared, a little too intense. "That wonderful child," as Mark Twain calls her in one of his finest stories, was not the anaemic heroine she is pictured in Bastian Lepage's sickly painting in the Metropolitan Museum. She was simply a innocent and gallant girl who said her prayers and did her duty even when it called on her to rescue...
...truth of the question is that a man who is blessed with a genius for writing will become an author with or without college training. Mark Twain gained his college training in a printing office and a pilot house, and Cooper gained his on board a fighting ship. Schools of authorship will probably never exist, for the man who specializes in the art of authorship will need little help in the selection of his courses. College training will help these men of gifted ability, but it can never produce them. The reasons for the lack of literary geniuses during...
...following books have been added to the library of the Union during the month of February: Lyman Abbott, "Reminiscences"; Mildred Aldrich, "A Hilltop on the Marne"; M. Anesaki, "Buddhist Art"; Arnold Bennett, "These Twain"; John Jay Chapman, "Greek Genius," and "Memories and Milestones"; Winston Churchill, "A Far Country"; Frank Danby, "Nelson's Legacy"; M. Lucien Descaver, "The Colour of Paris"; Arthur Elson, "The Book of Musical Knowledge"; St. John G. Ervine, "Eight O'clock"; A. D. Ficke, "The Man on the Hilltop"; Carl R. Fish, "American Diplomacy"; Richard Le Gallienne, "Vanishing Roads"; John Galsworthy, "The Freelands"; N. V. Gogol, "Dead...
...entertained several hundred members of the Union in the Living Room last night, with anecdotes of his career as a lecturer and an account of some of the "Celubrities I Have Met," including Richard Harding Davis, Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, Andrew Carnegie, Judge Robert Grant '73, and Mark Twain...
Professor Charles Townsend Copeland will give the last of his readings for the year in the Dining Room of the Union this evening at 9 o'clock. Professor Copeland will read extracts from Bret Harte's "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" and Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court...