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DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCH-BISHOP?Willa Gather?Knopf ($2.50). A large part of Miss Gather's pre-eminence as a novelist is due to her ability as a scholar. Her offering for this season is more scholarly than creative?a reconstruction of the episcopal works of the first Roman Catholic bishop of her beloved New Mexico, Jean Marie Latour.* She draws him with esthetic reverence, an immaculate conception of a missionary in buckskins who, lost and athirst in the desert, still retained elegance, distinction and "a kind of courtesy toward himself, toward his beasts, toward the juniper tree before...
...Barry, Chairman, Miss Margaret Murphy; H. F. Sayward, Miss Mildred Fenton; F. W. Currier, Miss Doris Goodwin; Dominick Manoli, Miss Willa Semple; P. N. Roe, Miss Dorothy Meier; E. M. Roe, Miss Laura Templeton; H. Wilkinsen, Miss Isabella Hart! H. H. Watchpocket, Miss Mildred Dolbair; M. W. Stevens, Miss Caroline Shaw...
...fiction. Miss Warner, who was responsible for "Lolly Willowes, or The Loving Huntsman," is technically one of the most interesting authors now writing. Like Virginia Woolf, she never wastes a word. Each sentence is placed deftly, accurately; each paragraph is an exquisitely tooled bit. And like another woman writer, Willa Cather, she possesses a refreshing air of calm and quiet. When one reads her it is with a sense that the book is a treat; that it is of a rare vintage, not often obtainable...
...author: "A certain committee last week announced winners of the O. Henry Memorial Prizes in short-story-writing for 1926. Wilbur Daniel Steele won $500 for 'Bubbles.' Dr. Blanche Colton Williams, the committee chairman, said that My Mortal Enemy, by Willa Cather had tied-for first prize but 'Bubbles' won because Miss Cather had published her tale as a short novel. Sherwood Anderson received second prize ($250) for 'Death in the Woods.' And to me they offered third prize ($100) for 'Between Worlds.' I refused to give permission for the reprinting of my story. The committee then fell back...
...Author. Willa Sibert Gather spends months on end riding over her brothers' ranches in the Southwest. Then she buries herself for more months, of writing, in New York. The emotional maturity of her characters, their frequent arrival at or tragic necessity for spiritual self-reliance (see A Lost Lady, The Professor's House), must be a reflection of their author's real acquaintance with solitude. Miss Gather is nearly 50 now; sociable when she likes; vigorous, cheerful, charming. But more and more she is a recluse who, having had experience as country girl (Nebraska), college girl (Nebraska...