John Jay Chapman on Horace
Tyler Piccotti on Artemus Ward.Albert Jay Nock on Artemus Ward (1924) and on Artemus Ward’s America (1934). From 1924:
“Ward is the property of an order of persons — for order is the proper word, rather than class or group, since they are found quite unassociated in any formal way, living singly or nearly so, and more or less as aliens, in all classes of our society — an order which I have characterized by using the term intelligence. If I may substitute the German word Intelligenz, it will be seen at once that I have no idea of drawing any supercilious discrimination as between, say, the clever a… waisberg.micro.blog
For Patrick Kurp.New at IWP Books: Desmond MacCarthy, Portraits, 1931.
Arthur Krystal (A Word or Two Before I Go, 2023):
“Thirty years ago I contemplated writing about the British critic and raconteur Desmond MacCarthy. Accordingly, I headed off to Broadway and Thirteenth Street. In those days the literary criticism at the Strand was stuck in with Literature, which was somewhere toward the back of the store, near the left wall. Before I reached the rows designated by the letter M, a book fell from an upper shelf, just missing my head. I knew it was from a high shelf because of the loud clap it ma… waisberg.micro.blog
New at IWP Books: Logan Pearsall Smith, All Trivia, 1933.Arthur Krystal (A Word or Two Before I Go, 2023) on L.P.S.:
“Shoulders and elbows were also necessary to secure my 1922 second edition of Trivia by Logan Pearsall Smith, published in 1917 by Doubleday, Page & Company, as well as my 1921 first edition of More Trivia, published by Harcourt, Brace, and Company. I hadn’t heard of Logan Pearsall Smith (the best name ever for an essayist, though he mainly composed vignettes in “moral prose,” some no more than half a page long) until Gore Vidal wrote a piece about him for the New York Review of Boo… waisberg.micro.blog
Patrick Kurp on Franklin Pierce Adams.
F.P.A. at IWP Books (Update):
- Tobogganing on Parnassus (1911)
- In Other Words (1912)
- By and Large (1914)
- Weights & Measures (1917)
- Something Else Again (1920)
- So There! (1923)
- So Much Velvet (1925)
The W-Word by Theodore Dalrymple. “The idea that the sex of a person is simply a matter of choice is a giant ideological lie.”
Hope for Harvard? by James Hankins. “Few indeed were left who had seen the republic.”
From F.P.A., the Life and Times of Franklin Pierce Adams by Sally Ashley (1986):“As the months passed, the top of Frank’s rolltop desk became cluttered with clippings and newspapers, notebooks, and bits of paper, half-finished verses and cascades of mail from readers. As he worked, he smoked big black cigars and ashes fell everywhere, including all over his clothes, speckling them with little brown holes. His was an untidy mien, although he was unexpectedly fastidious, as when he compulsively scrutinized the column over the linotyper’s shoulder to catch last-minute mistakes, or displayed an intense… waisberg.micro.blog
Most of what we have we have received and not acquired.
Franklin P. Adams at IWP Books:
- Tobogganing on Parnassus (1911)
- By and Large (1914)
- Something Else Again (1920)
New in Books: Tobogganing on Parnassus, Franklin P. Adams, 1911. On F.P.A.: “In those days of wildly competing newspapers and hired girls, no New York City name was better known than Franklin Pierce Adams, no printed space more coveted than the top of his column, The Conning Tower….” The column ran from 19... waisberg.micro.blog
New in Translations: My Head is in the Stars, by Quincy Bass, 1940.
New in Translations: The Odes of Horace, Translated by Leonard Chalmers-Hunt, 1925. Chalmers-Hunt was one of the founders (in 1933), and the first secretary, of The Horatian Society.
I spent a few days at the British Library making copies of translations. The numbers in parenthesis show the number of translations added to each of the different collections since the last update (all in all, 109). They are all available at Translations.185 (+10) translations of Solvitur Acris Hiems (Od… waisberg.micro.blog
New in Translations: Robert Louis Stevenson, 1916, An Ode of Horace