Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-08-07
REED, THE MASTER STYLISH.

William Marion Reedy, the most brilliant of American writers and philosophers, is dead. His vehicle of communication was Reedy's Mirror printed once week in the city of St. Louis, says the Commercial-Ap- peal. Reedy contributed to the last number of the Mirror. He wrote a pleasant story about tuna fishing, for he was sojourning at the time in Los Angeles. He also discussed the eastern problem and analysed the amazing series of adventures now in history of every day throughout the world.
 When the forms were made up and the Mirror was ready to go to press telegram came that Reedy had died. A 1O-line notice of what had come to pass appeared on the first page that five pages of the paper were filled by Reedy, every line of which breathed strength, virility, beauty, buoyancy and optimism, and before all was the death notice. This would have de- 
 lighted Reedy's soul.
 Reedy did not write for the multi tudcs. He had no vogue like the late MT. Howell's. He was not over whelming as was Emerson, but he was more brilliant stylist than How els. He was a deeper thinker than Emerson, but he had the facility of translating his thoughts into warm and beautiful words after the manner of Walter Pater.
 Reedy never went to New England or to New York. His home was in the west. St. Louis suited him. It was in accord with his mental-tradi- tions. There is culture in St. Louis, in New Orleans and in many other spots in this valley that comes down to us from those romantic times sswhen LaSalle and Marquette, D'En- spille, Tonti and our own Gayoso rode xnp and down our hills and valleys 'gAnd floated out of mystery into mys- stery along our broad rivers.
 There are only two places in Amer, ica where Reedy could find himself at home. He lived in St. Louis and it suited him. He might have been hap py in New Orleans, where Lafcadio Hearn lowered. Boston would have frozen his soul. New York would have made his mind huckster shop in which literary success would have been counted in terms of the dollars received for royalty.
 Reedy never wrote anything for profit. He loved to express himself on the printed page; how great or small was the circulation of his media mattered little to him.
 Reedy received his literary training under the Jesuits of St. Louis Uni versity. Their methods of literature are those of Oxford, Trinity College and possibly those of Princeton. Their system of teaching English is to teach Latin and Greek. If one must know philosophy one must begin with Plato and Aristotle. If one then would per feet himself in English he must read Addison, Steele, Paradise Lost and Shakespeare.
 The world has got far away from the Oxford, Trinity College and the old Scottish university methods of ed ucation. Reedy was one of those who 1indicated some of the excellencies of this system in America. Every day it is shown in England that Chester ton, Leslie, Yeats, the Bensona, Gals worthy and many others like them get the beginnings of what they have and what they do at Oxford, Trinity or maybe Aberdeen. In these schools, until the last four years, even Greek was compulsory in order to have q masters degree. Think of Latin. Greek and either French or German