The Washington herald., 1921-07-17
LITERARYLOCALS.

LITERARY LOCALS.
The Mirrors of Washington,
which is to be published this month
will include characterization of the
Following men in public life: Presi-
dent Harding, former President
Wilson. Col. Harvey. CO.. House,
Secretaries Hughes and Hoover.
Senators Lodge, Borah, Knox, PEN
rose and Johnson, Messrs. Root,
Baruch and Lansing.
Henry G. Aikman, author of
"Zen," is at Surfside on Nantucket
writing a new novel.
Thomas Beer, it is rumored, is
writing a book about stephen
Crane. A. A. Knopf is going to
bring out Mr.. Beers first novel
sometime soon.
The Harpers announce that OF
their large family of authors Mark
Twain seems to be the pet of the
press. Since January !. 1921, they
have received 5.221 newspaper and
magazine clippings about Mark.
/ The Harpers also state. as a fur
ther proof of the great humorist's s
growing popularity, that the royal
ties paid to his estate during the
past year were four times as much
as those paid to him during the last
year of his life.
Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons
| announce for early August publica-
| tion of three new volumes in the
| Modern Students Library: Carlyle's
'SartOr Resartus," edited by Prof.
Ashley Thorndike of Columbia Uni
versity; Historical Essays by Lord
Macaulay, selected and edited by
/ Prof. Charles D. Hazen of Columbia
! University and Selections from the
/ Federalist, selected and edited by
Prof. John Spencer Bassett Of Smith
College.
Another forthcoming publicat tion
/ Of the Macmillans is The American
Novel" by Carl Van Doren. literary
editor of The Nation" Mr.. Van
Doren traces the development of
the novel from colonial times to the
| present day.
Emanuel Reicher announces that
he will revive Hauptmann's THE
| Weavers." in New York next sea-
son. Mr.. Reicher's production at
| the Garden Theater several seasons
ago was great artistic and pop
| ular success. The Weavers" is
published by B. W. -Husbsch IN
Volume | OF the seven volume edi-
/ tion of Hauptmann's plays.
Three Loving Ladies'" recently
published by Houghton Mifflin
Company. was written by the Hon.
Mrs. Dowdall. under what would
seem to be most inauspicious cir
cumstanCes. She says of her eX-
perience:
No sympathetic reviewer knows
yet how the books were written.
mostly in the schoolroom with the
children's lessons going on over my
head. as the spot least liable to in
cursions from people to ask il !
wouldn't smell the beef and what
about the tap in the larder: Nor
[ of the blessed day when ] got a
really quiet two hours work by the
dentists fire, while three of my
family were mauled about in sue
cession. Nor of when / used to fali
asleep in the middle of a paragraph,
/ with cup of tea in my lap. and
wake thinking I had fallen off a
mountain into a hot lake. One was
finished sitting up at night with a
child that had pneumonia and a
/ mouse Careering around the room.
Perhaps all this has somethiny to
do with the lack Of sustained plot
but that's only an excuse really"
The list OF American writer's who
hold OF have held public office
would be a long one. The diplo-
matte and consular service has been
craced by many literary men.
| Meredith Nicholson. who lives in
Indiana. where everyone is more or
less in politics. has declined nomi-
nations for congress and other Of =
fices. and he refused a diplomatic
/ appointment in the Wilson admins
tration. However. for many years
he has almost constantly held a
political job OF some kind. usually
one of these places without reward
or honor which are not particularly
desirable. Just now he is Jury COM
missioner for the courts of his
county. He was much chagrined re-
| Gently that he had summoned as
talesman in the criminal court the
| father OF a woman about to be tried
for murder. He protests that he
can't use the incident in fiction as
nobody would believe that such a
thing could happen.