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...from around the town. Arthur Meeker Jr., arty son of one of the best families, wrote rather harshly about having to stay in Illinois in the summertime. William C. Boyden, Harvardman, literary lawyer, did a comic piece about actors and actresses he had known. He used to be theatre critic for the earlier Chicagoan. Another old contributor-Durand Smith, Oxonian, Lake Forest socialite-sent in some travel notes from Italy. Helen Young wrote a page of tittle-tattle. She is society editor of Hearst's Herald & Examiner. William Randolph Weaver, younger brother of Poet John Van Alstyn Weaver...
...Managing Editor Henry Justin Smith, lean, droop-mustached, with a stride like a camelopard, will continue to run the news staff as he has done for 30 years. He is often visited by his one time Reporters Carl Sandburg (who still writes a column) and Ben Hecht or Critic Hughes, either in his office or at Schlogle's "literary" restaurant where he lunches each Saturday, orders a glass of wine as his concession to being-a-good-fellow, drinks half...
...Author. In 1916 "Emanuel Morgan" and "Anne Knish" published Spectra, a little book of free verse so cleverly written it fooled many a critic into serious praise. "Anne Knish" was Arthur Davison Ficke; "Emanuel Morgan" was Witter Bynner. A Harvardman, tall and dark, with a high, shining forehead, Bynner has been through the literary mill: as assistant editor of McClure's Magazine, advisory editor to publishers, instructor of English, lecturer on poetry. His two sidelines are poetry and American-Indian and Chinese art. With Kiang Kang-hu he translated a Chinese anthology, Jade Mountain. He lives in Santa...
...Hope, brother-in-law of Lord Salisbury, the Saturday Review achieved early fame for savage Toryism, shrieking the "menace" of Russia and Germany. But its true consequence was literary rather than political, particularly at the turn of the century when Frank Harris was editor and George Bernard Shaw music critic...
...times a caustic but never a savage critic, Gosse made his reputation by discriminating paeans in praise of established figures, but he wrote appreciatively of such contemporaries as Algernon Charles Swinburne, Robert Louis Stevenson, Andrew Lang, Thomas Hardy, George Moore and many a younger man. It was to Gosse that Swinburne divulged his famed outburst against Ralph Waldo Emerson, whose reported remarks had offended Swinburne. When Gosse learned that Swinburne had written to Emerson, he said: " 'I hope you said nothing rash.' 'Oh, no.' 'But what did you say?' I kept my temper...