English Novel Passing Says Mencken Critiques England
H. L. Mencken argues the English novel has declined due to Edwardian ideals and poor modern writing. He cites Wells Walpole and Cabell as examples and notes English reviews harshly scrutinize American books while praising weaker English works.
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Mencken
Hwenky L. Mencken
Motherland
Hugh Walpole
Bookman
Milton Waldman
London Mercury
Kone
Hardy
Moore
Kipling
James
Wella Bennett
Phillipots
Galeworthy
Wother
Walpole
Red
England
Wells
Walpole Iain
America
London
Waldman
Sinclair Lewis
Martin Arrowsmith
Lewis
Main Street
Babbitt
Amy Lowell
Misa Lowell
Boston
Keata
The
Chicago Tribune
Fisk Jubilee Singers Greet New York After European Tour
The Fisk Jubilee Singers, renowned for Negro Spirituals and secular songs, have returned from Europe to New York where critics and audiences applauded their work. They plan another New York appearance before touring England France and Germany, reflecting rising American interest in Negro Spirituals and the band’s historic role since Fisk University formed them after the Civil War.
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New York
Fisk Jubilee Singers
Europe
England
France
Germany
New York City
America
Fisk University
Avery
Ancient Swords For New Opera
Kano Oshima, noted Japanese sword collector, lends ancient armor and a Masamune blade dating to the Kamakura era for the world premiere of Namiko San at the Chicago Civic Opera on December 11 with soprano Tamaki Miura. The sword, famed as Nippon’s master maker’s work, is valued at 3,000.
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Namiko San
Chicago Civic Opera
Mme
Tamaki Miura
Kano Oshima
Oshima
Mesamune
Nippon
Anecdotes of William James Pennell by an Illustrator
Joseph Pennell recalls his friendship with William James Pennell and their clashes over art and criticism. He describes meetings in London, collaboration on James books, and witty exchanges about Daumler, American scenes, and skyscrapers, plus a Christmas dinner and a quarrel with Shaw shaped by art and politics.
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Joseph Pennell
Little, Brown
Orange Street
Henry James
James
London
Pennell
Macmillan
de Vere Gardens
Daumler
New York
Jersey City
Singer
Frederick Macmillan
Lady Macmillan
Royal Scottish Academy
George Bernard Shaw
Shaw
Adelphi Terrace
Thames
John Burns
Rodin
Cashel Byron
W. H. Massingham
Pennells
Adelphia Terrace
Augustine
Atlantc
Barrie
Marion Crawford
F. Hopkinson Smith
Maurice Francis Egan
Sir Edmund #osse
Maurice Hewlett
Henry Tames
Andrew Lang
John Ruskin
Mark Twain
H. G. Wells
Cecelia Geaux
Maxfield Parrish
Howard ‘Yle
James McNeill Whistler
Walter Strang
Europe
America
el Informador
Guadalajara
Mexico
Witter Bynner
San Luis Soyotlan
Lake Chapala
Bynner
Mr. Bynner
Presidente
Chapala
Noted Authors and Books Dominate Early News Bursts
A survey of recent literary announcements highlights Rex Beach and William Coward works, Sheridan revivals, and new editions from Knopf and Houghton Mifflin. The piece traces authorial booms, film to stage crossovers, and forthcoming travel and poetry volumes including Witter Bynner's Caravan and John Nethardt's The Song of the Indian Wars.
Best Sellers in Book Shops of 1924 25 season
Wholesalers report top selling fiction and non fiction titles across major houses. Anne Parrish Barney is noted for The Perennial and Tarkingtons Women, Glorious Apollo and Wild Geese by Martha Ostens. Non fiction includes Life and Letters of Ter Hines Page and The Man Nobody Knows by Bruce Barton.
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Barney
Anne Parrish
Harper
Martha Owtenso
Dodd, Mead
Northwest
Hines Page
Burton J. Hendrick
Doubleda
Mr. Page
Wilson
Man
Bruce Barton
Bobbs-Marr
Christ
Winter Reading and a Pony’s Mischief in Dipper Hill
A reader praises Anne Bosworth Greene’s Dipper Hill blending philosophy farming and vivid pony mischief. The excerpt recalls Donny the pony stepping on poppies to provoke sprouting golds and crimson sunsets, with farm life and nature described in lyrical detail.
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Anne Bosworth Greene
Dipper
Greene
Donlinna
Donny
Mars
Wembley Exhibition Buildings Put Up For Sale
London brokers push Wembley exhibit assets on the market including the Burma Pavilion with shrine and Buddha, a 100000 seat concrete stadium, the Palace of Industry civic hall four bridges a bandstand a nonstop railway and several tea gardens all offered to bidders.
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Canton Daily News
London
Wembley
Burma
Palace of Industry
Mysterious artist 1 illustrator gains American recognition
Europe stunned by the artist known as 1 illustrator receives new attention in the United States. Weyhe Gallery hosts an exhibition of his fantastical drawings while Alfred A. Knopf prepares a box set titled Fifty Drawings with an Introduction by Dan Van Voghten.
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Sheridan
School For Scandal
Henry Jewett
Repertory Theater
Boston
Houghton-Mifflin Company
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
George Sherringham
Nigel Playfair
the School For Scandal
Francis Wilson
Bob Acres
Himself
Alastair
Europe
America
Weyhe Gallery
Alfred A. Knopf
Dan van Vochten
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Jetl
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W. B Maxwell
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Cabell
Maurice Hewett
James Branch Cabell
London Times Literary Supplement
New Opera
Kano Oshina
Pennel
William James
Chummy
IS. Bynner
Twain
Jeanne C. Potter
Harler’s
Mr. Coward
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Beach
Trowbridge Hall
Japan
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Williams and Norgate
Island Chronicle
Mr. Cummings
Knopf
China
Indiana
Florence Ayscough
Charles Bulfinch
Charles A. Place
North Pole
Walter Mittelholzer
Beresford Chancellor
Edith Lillian Smith
Ploetz
Carl Ploetz
Richard Brinsley Sherdan
the Century Co
Mesa
Canon
Pueblo
Charles F. Lummis
Barry Benefield
Lawrence
Arabia
Lowell Thomas
Khyber Pass
W. M. Hillyer
Jack Balister
Howard Pyle
Grizzly
Ernest Thompson Seton
Noel Coward
New York Critica
Apollo
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Rington
Byron
Booth Tarkington
Doubleday
A. M. Hutchinson
Little Brown
Willa Cather
A. A. Milne
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Wilde
David
David Binney Putnam
Putnam
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Galapagos Islands
Burns Mantle
Small, Maynard
John J. Prouts
Elgin
Hamilton
Howard
Dueber-Hampen
Seth Thomas
John
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