Word: juvenilia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When a writer is dead, his admirers feel that at least he is now safe: there will be no senile juvenilia from him. Then comes the literary executor. And the executor publishes more, and more, and more posthumous stuff, each batch a little feebler than the last. Such was the case with Katherine Mansfield; such is now the case with A. E. Housman. Admirers of Housman who have to sit helplessly by while his brother Laurence continues his well-meaning but damaging publications may well feel that the line from A Shropshire...
...inescapable conclusion from this glorification of juvenilia was that the younger you are, the better child art you are likely to produce. At about junior high-school age, or sixth grade, many of the child painters had turned imitative, muddying the pure well of crudity with inhibited attempts to be artistic. But under this age, the hugely scrawled and brightly colored pictures done by little boys & girls showed a splashing freedom of imagery and sometimes a direct seizure of character. They also showed frequent resemblance to the art of those moderns who distort for the sake of design...
...manuscript of her play, was too busy to bother about it. Thirteen years later she found it again, among some old papers. Easily most popular poetess of the U. S., Edna St. Vincent Millay could afford now to foist off on her sympathetic public almost any callow piece of juvenilia. But The Princess Marries the Page is surprisingly, delightfully neither callow nor juvenile. A Princess, "the most beautiful Princess you have ever seen." is reading in her tower retreat. A saucy page, who has climbed up to the window ledge, interrupts her by tootling on his flute. Their little flirtation...
Died. Mrs. Annie 'Fellows Johnston, 68, authoress, after long illness; at Pewee Valley, Ky. Born in Evansville, Ind. she attained fame as the author of the "Little Colonel'' books, a series of juvenilia much admired by the girls of the last generation. The heroine, a bright child with golden curls, was the favorite of her old Confederate grandpapa, hence her nickname. Mrs. Johnston began writing "Little Colonel" books in 1892, definitely ended the series in 1929. Several years ago she was told that a child had undergone a major operation without anesthetic on being promised a shelf...
...daubs. Revolted, Artist Picasso charged last week that the material had been obtained from his mother in Barcelona under false pretenses, filed a complaint charging fraud against persons unnamed, caused the Galeries Georges Bernheim and the Galeries Zak to be invaded by gendarmes who removed the offensive juvenilia...