The Washington herald., 1921-07-03
LITERARY LOCALS.

They are all persons OF elegant
manners and spotless regulations,
they seem to welcome my anecdotes
with unfiinching attention. / have
only one grievance against them:
they will all keep in their houses
mawkish books full of stale epithets.
which. when l only seem to smell
their proximity. produce in me a
slight feeling OF nausea.
There are people. 1 believe. who
are affected in this way by the
presence of cats."-'Trivia." by
Logan Pearsall Smith in the London
Outlook.
Will parents please tell their
children. multigraphs The Century
Company. that Augusta Huiell Sea-
man will publish this autumn an
other mystery story for boys and
girls entitled The Dragons Secret"
The Century Company assures us
that the youngsters will know just
how important this announcement
An order for three copies Of The
Lynching Bee" by William Ellery
Leonand, came into the ONCE of B.
W. HuSbsch recently. which read
as follows: Kindly send me three
copies of The Lynching Bee, a
volume of poems which Stuart p.
Sherman (our American Aristar-
chus) has pronounced in the April
Yale Review to be the most hideous
apparition in American verse" A
hasty glance at the biography of
Aris.archus in the Britannica re-
veals that the Greek critic laid
chief stress on analogy and uni
formity" and that he was much
written against by one Crates of
Mallus. a Menckenian person prob
ably. Incidentally the order for the
poems came from William Ellery
Leonard.
Robert Morse Lovett has written
letter to the New Republic in
which lhe states that the advisory
committee consisting of Hamlin
Garland. Stuart p. Sherman and
himself. which was appointed to
recommend the novel most worthy
OF the Pulitzer prize. reported
unanimously in favor of Sinclair
Lewis's Main Street" The pfize.
it will be recalled, was awarded by
the Columbia School of Journalism
to Mrs. Wharton for The Age of
Innocence"
According to his publishers. Clar-
ence Buddington Kelland. the author
of Scattered Baines." rises every
morning when the clock strikes nine
as promptly as il he were re-
rquired to punch a time clock. This
virtue, of promptness so rare among
literary persans has enabled Mr..
Kelland to complete a new novel in
spite of the distractions of Long
Island, where he is spending the
summer.
The Dial Magazine will pay
$4,000 on January l 1922, and an
nually thereafter to young Ameri-,
can writer who has contributed to
the Dial in the preceding year.
There are no special terms or con-
ditions and the Dial Is not institute
ing competition. The money Is in
tended not as a prize but as a re-
ward for service to letters.
The following Is from the literary
supplement of the London Times:
Mirrors of Washington" is the
name of a forthcoming anonymous
American book, of which the title
and the scope follow those Of a re-
cent widely read English book. 1T
will deal with many leading. per-
sonalities of the Washington of to-
day, including the President and
ex-President Wilson. Mr.. Hughes,
Mr.. Lansing. General Pershing Mr..
Hoover, Col. House. Mr.. Harvey, and
others"
William Rose Benet. whose
volume of poems called Moons of
Grandeur" is we'll worth reading
has been given an M. A. by Yale.
Between poems Mr.. Benet helps edit
the Literary Review.
That the English are interested
in American fiction is Goven by the
Harpers' statement that royalties
have been paid on English editions
Of over 100000 of Zane Grey's
books. Mr.. Grey leaves shortly for
the coast of Sonora to gather ma
terial Sor a new story.
Competitors for the famous Prix
de Rome, the Annual sculptural con-
test dear to French art, are Sc
cluded for ninety-six days during
the period of composition, to test
their ability to formulate original
concepts. 1t was a woman who won
the latest contest, she being the first
OF her sex even to be admitted to
competition since the establishment
OF the Prfx de Rome in 1866.
The honor went. to Nine. Anis
Mouroux. now visiting in this coun.
try. She submitted a design of
gripping power on the subject as
signed. ''Fraternite sur lie champ de
bataille" ("Fraternity on the Battle
held.) She gains a years travel
and study in the italian capitaf.
Her design was purchased by the
French government and presented
to Nine. Mouroux's native place