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Advance sheets furnish proof that if Major Curran had made as good a job of running for mayor as he made in writing this first story he would receive his mail at City Hall. It is a short story, written in a he-man fashion, with comedy, a touch of pathos, an intimate knowledge of underlying condi

tions of politics in New York, which Mr. Curran acquired as a newspaper reporter as well as in public life, and bubbles over with kindness and good feeling." The New York Globe also makes mention of the story. "It reveals an intimate knowledge not only of the New York of the city club and the university set, but of First Avenue and the 'gangs' that prevailed in the good old days before head-line writers began to confuse gangs with gunmen and political clubs with gambling houses. . . . It promises well for Mr. Curran's future as an interpreter of the New York he has known as a reporter, an alderman, and a close student of human nature.'

the face of this planet, legible through the solar system-Pupin his mark. And his inheritance is great. I am mighty glad to know about that. He is no accident. . . . I congratulate you heartily on getting Pupin." Zona Gale has published more than a dozen books, the best-known of them being her famous "Miss Lulu Bett," which, in dramatic form, won the Pulitzer Prize from Columbia University as the best play of the year produced in New York. Miss Gale's Friendship Village stories have had a wide appeal. For some years the author was on the staffs of Milwaukee papers and of the New York World.** With headquarters at Prague, Viola Paradise and her friend Helen Campbell have made extended trips into Albania to study the social and political conditions and to learn at first hand the intimate details of peasant life in regions difficult of access. She writes from Vienna early in September-and after the article was on the press: "I learn that the United States has recently recognized Albania. A foot-note ought to go into the article at the place where mention is made of the mountain men singing about the desire for recognition by the United States. . . . We go back to Czechoslovakia in a few days. We have been taking a vacation on the Dalmatian coast, chiefly, the last few weeks. shall presently be deep in remote districts of Slovakia and "Podkarpatska Russ," as Ruthenia is there called."**"Callahan of Carmine Street" is Henry H. Curran's second story. Edward Staats Luther, in The Morning Telegraph of September 23 makes the following interesting comment in his column: "Henry H. Curran, who tried his luck at running for mayor in this town last year, has turned author. SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE for October . . . carries the first of a series of fiction-political stories by the major entitled, 'Hey, Toolan's Marchin'!'

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Mary Briarly is the pseudonym of an author living in Salt Lake City, the wife of a well-known judge. She graduated from De Pauw University, at Greencastle, Indiana, and has recently been making a study of the psychological effects of certain tendencies in modern university training. She first began studying the educational problem in the interests of her three children, the youngest of whom has completed her sophomore year in college, and has helped to verify some of her mother's data. ** Gwendolen Haste, of Billings, Montana, was part winner of the 1921 poetry prize offered by The Nation. She is a graduate of the University of Chicago and has won praise for poems published in most of the best-known magazines. ** For a good many years Walter Prichard Eaton was dramatic critic for New York newspapers. Among his books on a wide variety (Continued on page 7)

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of subjects are several concerning the theatre-"The American Stage To-day," "At the New Theatre and Others," and "Plays and Players." He is an instructor in the Columbia School of Journalism and a lecturer on dramatic topics. ** Benjamin Brooks, who is an engineer, began writing in his college days. Most of his writings are the outgrowth of engineering experiences in this country and in France, where he was a Captain of Engineers during the war. Oliver La Farge, son of C. Grant La Farge, the architect, and grandson of the artist John La Farge, was born in New York in 1901. He went to school at Groton, where he rowed and was an editor of The Grotonian. He entered Harvard in the class of 1924, rowed on the freshman and Varsity 150-pound crews, and joined the staff of The Harvard Advocate. He says that he intends to be an anthropologist, and in that interest he has already made one field trip to Arizona with the Peabody Museum Expedition. ** On September 25 official announcement was made that a play entitled "The Jilts," by Philip Barry, had won the five-hundred-dollar prize offered annually by the Belmont Repertoire Company of New York to past and present members of Professor George Pierce Baker's playwriting course, English 47, at Harvard and Radcliffe. Mr. Barry is a Yale man, class of 1918, and wrote on the staff of three Yale publications in his undergraduate days. During the war he served for about a year at the London embassy, under appointment in the Department of State. ** Mrs. Elia W. Peattie, of Tryon, North Carolina, writes many poems for the magazines and has published a dozen or more books. She was for a time literary critic of the Chicago Tribune and has spent many years at journalistic work.

Professor William Lyon Phelps has returned to Yale, where he is Lampson Professor of English, after a summer spent in Michigan. His first two SCRIBNER papers in the new department have already called forth much interesting comment. Pro

fessor Phelps has long been one of the most popular lecturers at the university and before clubs and societies all over the country, and his opinions are always certain to provoke intelligent discussion. A correspondent of the New York Times sends in a lively protest against the remark, in As I LIKE IT for September, that "no great play has been written on this side of the Atlantic." He lists "Beyond the Horizon," "The Hairy Ape," Anna Christie," "The Yellow Jacket," "The Great Divide," and "The First Year" as examples of great plays by American authors. ** Anne Hollingsworth Wharton has been writing since her school days, principally on subjects of Colonial and Revolutionary history, and art. She is First Historian of the National Society of Colonial Dames of America, and an officer of several societies of Philadelphia.

Dr. Henry van Dyke, whose article, "An Adventurer in a Velvet Jacket," appeared in the August SCRIBNER'S, received a most interesting letter about it from Sir Sidney Colvin, which we are glad to quote in part:

"I cannot forbear writing-and hope you will not think my doing so an impertinence -to thank you for your essay on R. L. S. in the current number of SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE. In a small compass it seems to me to sum up his salient qualities and forecast his probable permanent place in literature more justly and with more point and insight than anything that has been written about him.

You delighted me by striking an absolutely right note in saying: 'There was one thing for which he cared more than for writing, and that was living.' The next following pages about the qualities of his style and its relation to life and experience seem to me quite masterly-I don't quote special instances or I should be quoting the whole paper. And the summary history of his work which follows-history and criticism in one-I wish I could adequately express to you the pleasure, mingled with envy, which I have derived from the light and sure felicity with which it is touched in every phrase and paragraph."