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...Eminence Denis Cardinal Dougherty, pious, harmoniously resident amid the calm of Philadelphia. None of the four U. S. cardinals ranks with the late James Cardinal Gibbons in ability to drive a persuasive quill. Does Rome look to him who sits on the seat of Cardinal Gibbons? It is His Grace the Archbishop of Baltimore, Michael Curley, a Roosevelt rather than a Wilson. But in Francis Clement Kelley, Bishop of Oklahoma, Okla., Rome has found far more than an able scrivener. He is fervent yet logical, logical without being dull, slyly humorous but minus the handicaps in persuasion...
...listen to Lancelot's story, honest as the day, of how on his very first visit to King Pelles, that old stickler's bold-spirited daughter had offered her self to him as wife or mistress, she cared not which, in frank passion for his sombre scars, grace and fortitude; how upon his next visit, when he went reluctantly at his liege's bidding to complain of dusty hay which had given Arthur's horse the heaves, Elaine had tricked him into her chamber by an ambiguous message and there made a plea, and a display...
...inspired creation the like of which may be expected yet again. The subtitle of Galahad is a very fair sample of Erskine wit: "Enough of his life to explain his reputation." The strength of the irony is as the strength of ten because Author Erskine exercises restraint, discretion, grace instead of horseplay. Member of the English faculty at Columbia University, facile, dignified, popular, 47, married (1910), Author Erskine's most recent public act of moment was reading a memorial poem at the Phi Beta Kappa sesquicentennial last month (TIME...
...Monan, a man who sat down at 9 o'clock every morning for some forty years with a black cigar in his mouth, to paint pictures for the Sauta Fe railroad, and whose work is as full of life and energy today as it is empty of form or grace...
...October, 1877, Mr. Eliot married Miss Grace Mellon Hopkinson. In the midst of his labors as President, he always found time for recreation with his family and for exercises in the open air. In the summers, especially, he took great pleasure and found much credit in cruising...