Category: Authors

THOMAS NELSON PAGE first came into national prominence seventeen years ago through the publication by The Century Magazine of the short story called “Marse Chan.” He received eighty dollars for the story. A few years ago, in conversation with Mr. Frank G. Carpenter, the author related the incidents which led to the writing of ” […]

A GREAT many persons, indeed, a great many critics, have called Richard Harding Davis superficial. They obviously had one thing in mind and said another. Perhaps they may have meant to say that sometimes Mr. Davis dealt in superficialities. We lean toward Professor Harry Thurston Peck’s opinion. “Mr. Davis, in fact,” he says, ” because […]

A DOZEN years or so ago, when Mr. Bangs faced at home an audience, which had gathered to hear his address on The Evolution of the Humorist,” he said : ” I was born in and have resided in Yonkers for a number of years ; I have braved the perils of life in this […]

HAMLIN GARLAND is Western in every sense of that broad term. To him the West has been birth-place, playground, battlefield. Not only as a writer but also as a man he takes that far-seeing, keen, sincere, unconventional view of things in general that distinguishes the thoroughbred Westerner. Like Jim Matteson, the hero of his latest […]