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...Outlook, once a weekly of "generally entertaining and instructive literature," edited by Henry Ward Beecher of Plymouth Church in Brooklyn, first rose to national prominence under Lyman Abbott, who became joint editor in 1876. The late Colonel Roosevelt was for five years Contributing Editor...
...Charles Beecher Warren has always lived in Detroit, where he learned and practiced law. President Harding sent him to Tokyo charged with the responsibility of ambassador, of preparing the way for the Washington conference and of " follow-up " work. When he had performed this service Mr. Warren returned just in time to undertake the task of establishing happier relations with our more immediate neighbor, Mexico...
Jacinto Benavente, author of The Passion Flower: " On arriving in New York, I told reporters that American literature is almost unknown in Spain-except for Mark Twain, Jack London, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Upton Sinclair, and Longfellow...
January 30, 1923. R. H. BEECHER...
...agreement which was not only creditable to the City of Cambridge, but singularly consistent with the thrifty foresight of Mr. Dowse. This foundation, established in the Golden Age of lyceum lectures, at once attracted the most brilliant and notable of speakers. The names of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Ward Beecher, Wendell Phillips. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Charles Sumher, Edward Everett, and many other personalities of that period, appear in the early lists. Professor Kittredge is a worthy successor of these masters of public address, and his hearers will listen with unusual pleasure, not only to his critical erudition...