FOOTNOTES
[1] Unwritten History, by Cosmo Hamilton. Page 3.
[2] Adventures in Journalism, by Philip Gibbs. Page 84. Harper.
[3] Adventures in Journalism. Page 113.
[4] Adventures in Journalism. Pages 245-246.
[5] “The Doomdorf Mystery” is the opening story in Mr. Post’s book, Uncle Abner, Matter of Mysteries (1918).
[6] Aristotle in his Poetics.
[7] Walter Pater.
[8] The quotations from. Mr. Post are collated from the chapter on him in Blanche Colton Williams’s Our Short Story Writers (Dodd Mead).
[9] See Gilbert Murray’s Euripides and His Age in the Home University Library (Holt).
[10] Blanche Colton Williams in the chapter on Mr. Post in Our Short Story Writers.
[11] The Evening Telegram, New York, 21 October 1923, page 20.
[12] Identified by a correspondent of the Boston Herald (18 October 1923) as Dago Frank, Lefty Louie, Whitey Lewis, Gyp the Blood—figures in the Becker case.
[13] “Tammany ruled through the corner saloon,” Farnol is quoted as saying, in an interview appearing in the New York Tribune, 19 October 1923. “Dear me, yes, we used to vote ever so many times. I always went out with my Hell’s Kitchen gang, and we voted for Tammany as often as we were told, changing our coats and going in time and time again. That was when we were voting against Jerome.
“I’ve surprised my American friends by saying I thought prohibition was a good thing. I’ve seen too much tragedy and sordidness, too many babies born of drunken parents. I used to love my cups as well as anybody, and I used to say that regeneration could not be forced on a drunkard by law, but now I think the law will help give him his start anyway.”
[14] Interview in Boston Herald, 18 October 1923.
[15] Interview in The Sun, New York, 21 October 1911, page 16.
[16] “‘B’gad, no!’ Yes, Mr. Farnol talks that way. He has had his characters do it for so long that it comes to him naturally and is in nowise an affectation.”—The Evening Telegram, New York, 21 October 1923, page 20.
“Glasses are a part of his expressive equipment, as much as ‘dammit man’ is, and probably more so than a vest which seems to have acquired a habit of coming unbuttoned.”—Interview by John Anderson in The Evening Post, New York, 23 October 1923, page 12.
[17] R. L. Stevenson: A Critical Study, by Frank Swinnerton. Pages 189, 190.
[18] The Book News Monthly, Philadelphia, November, 1915.
[19] A writer in the London Times, quoted in the Boston Evening Transcript, 24 November 1915.
[20] “The Romance of Jeffery Farnol,” by J. P. Collins. The Bookman, New York, July, 1920.
[21] Quoted by Henry C. Shelley in his article, “Jeffery Farnol and ‘The Broad Highway,’” in The Independent, New York, 7 September 1911.
[22] Rudyard Kipling was 23 when Plain Tales from the Hills was brought out in Calcutta; recognition came a few years later. Mr. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote This Side of Paradise at 23. William De Morgan was well past sixty when Joseph Vance made its success.
[23] Interview in the Boston Sunday Globe, 28 May 1912 (London correspondence printed without a date line).
[24] The Honourable Mr. Tawnish (1913).
[25] “A better selection than Mr. Farnol the Daily Mail could not have made,” said W. B. (“Bat”) Masterson, in The Morning Telegraph, New York, 24 July 1921. “Mr. Farnol’s narrative was not only interesting, but for the most part extremely thrilling. I would like to give the whole story as Mr. Farnol wrote it.” He does, however, quote the salient passages of Farnol’s story.
[26] Interview by John Anderson in The Evening Post, New York, 23 October 1923, page 12.
[27] Interview in The Evening Telegram, New York, 21 October 1923, page 20.
[28] “An Attic Salt-Shaker,” by W. Orton Tewson in The Public Ledger, Philadelphia, 3 November 1923.
[29] Interviews in The Evening Telegram, New York, 21 October 1923, page 20; in The New York Tribune, 19 October 1923; in The Boston Herald, 18 October 1923. The Definite Object (1917) is laid in New York.
[30] Interview by Fay Stevenson in The Evening World, New York, 24 October 1923.
[31] “Jeffery Farnol at Home,” by Henry Keats, The Book News Monthly, September, 1911.
[32] Several of the prime favorites among authors of books for boys and girls are discussed in Chapter 14.
[33] See [Chapter 2].
[34] See On the Margin, page 32, bottom, et seq. and page 150 et seq.
[35] On the Margin, page 166 et seq.
[36] See Antic Hay, page 8.
[37] See Crome Yellow, page 121 et seq.
[38] See When Winter Comes to Main Street (Grant Overton), page 34 et seq.
[39] Antic Hay, page 305.
[40] Letter of Samuel Roth, 500 Fifth Avenue, New York, 28 June 1922.
[41] American Nights Entertainment (Grant Overton), pages 34 and 35.
[42] Mr. F. Scott Fitzgerald.
[43] Mr. Henry L. Mencken.
[44] The New Republic.
[45] Mr. John V. A. Weaver.
[46] The London Times, 3 May 1923.
[47] Literary news note in The Indianapolis Star, 20 March 1922.
[48] Gods of Modern Grub Street, by A. St. John Adcock. (Stokes.) Page 267.
[49] Interview in The Evening Post, New York, 1922 (3 March?)
[50] “E. Phillips Oppenheim,” by Himself. Brentano’s Book Chat, April, 1921.
[51] The New York Times, New York Herald, and The World, New York, 5 March 1922, reporting a Lotos Club dinner to Mr. Oppenheim.
[52] Page 266.
[53] “E. Phillips Oppenheim,” by Himself. Brentano’s Book Chat, April, 1921.
[54] In Boston Evening Transcript for 23 February 1922.
[55] “Mental Photo of E. Phillips Oppenheim,” in The New York American for 6 March 1922.
[56] “E. Philips Oppenheim,” by Himself, in Brentano’s Book Chat for April, 1921.
[57] “Fiction and Prophecy,” by E. Phillips Oppenheim, in The New York Times, Sunday book or magazine section (March, 1922?)
[58] “E. Phillips Oppenheim,” by Himself, in Brentano’s Book Chat, April, 1921.
[59] Dr. Hall married twice.
[60] “The Foremost Woman Novelist in Spain,” in The Boston Evening Transcript for 12 April 1924.
[61] Pages 153-154.
[62] “In a spirit of youthful independence, I had lopped off my father’s patronymic.”—Unwritten History, by Cosmo Hamilton, page 8. The father, Mr. Gibbs, had opposed Cosmo’s literary ambitions. See also the chapter on Philip Gibbs in this book.
[63] Unwritten History, by Cosmo Hamilton, page 89.
[64] As long ago as 1916, writing of Lucas’s work, Mr. Llewellyn Jones, literary editor of The Chicago Evening Post, said: “It sounds incredible, but Mr. Lucas has put his name—as author, editor or introducer—on about 108 titlepages.” See pamphlet, “E. V. Lucas: Novelist, Essayist, Friendly Wanderer,” published at the time by George H. Doran Company, New York.
[65] See pamphlet, “E. V. Lucas: Novelist, Essayist, Friendly Wanderer,” published in 1916, the excerpt being taken from Mr. Llewellyn Jones’s article therein.
[66] “The metal bar, cold or lukewarm, will do anywhere, but heat it to melting-point and you must confine it within the rigid limits of the mold or see it at length but an amorphous splash at your feet.” This vivid metaphor of Mr. Pritchard’s is surely one of the most inspired explanations and justifications of poetic form ever set down. It can hardly be cited except by the supporters of traditional verse forms, as in a preceding sentence of his eloquent passage Mr. Pritchard speaks of “rime” and “metre” as well as of rhythm.
[67] Books and Persons, page 153. The notice first appeared in The New Age, London, 7 October 1909.
[68] See pamphlet, “E. V. Lucas: Novelist, Essayist, Friendly Wanderer.”
[69] “Of Slang—English and American,” in Cloud and Silver.
[70] “The True Wizard of the North,” in Adventures and Enthusiasms.
[71] “Thackeray’s Schoolfellow,” in Adventures and Enthusiasms.
[72] In Adventures and Enthusiasms.
[73] Men and Books and Cities, by Robert Cortes Holliday, pages 196-197.
[74] See also “Stories and Humorists,” in Roving East and Roving West, page 136 et seq., and also “Chicago,” in the same volume. Mr. Holliday’s full account is in Men and Books and Cities, pages 196-203, inclusive, and also page 206.
[75] Books and Persons, pages 153-154. First appeared as a notice of Mr. Lucas’s One Day and Another in The New Age, London, 7 October 1909.
[76] A writer in John o’ London’s Weekly, London. Reprinted in the Boston Evening Transcript of 3 March 1923.
[77] Article by Anne Carroll Moore in The Bookman for November, 1918. Reprinted in her Roads to Childhood.
[78] See [Chapter 12] for an account of Clyde Fitch and His Letters, by Mr. Moses and Miss Gerson.
[79] See [Chapter 11].
[80] See [Chapter 12].
[81] Yes, in These Charming People; but it is a remarkable coincidence that the identical mot appeared conspicuously in Donald Ogden Stewart’s Perfect Behavior, published in America in autumn, 1922. (These Charming People appeared in England in early summer, 1923.)
[82] See [Chapter 14].
[83] “Animals Love, Hate and Become Angry, Just Like Human Beings, Says Expert.” Interview by Jane Dixon in The Evening Telegram, New York, 23 January 1922.
[84] W. T. Hornaday, curator of the New York Zoölogical Gardens, is quoted in Lions ’n’ Tigers ’n’ Everything as saying: “Casey was a mystery. I am frank to say that I could not put my finger on his exact classification. Of course, he was an ape. But just what kind—that is the question.”
[85] “He’d Make a Man of a Monkey—and in Four Generations.” Feature article in The Gazette Times, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 7 May 1922.
[86] See the chapter on Mrs. Wharton either in Authors of the Day or American Nights Entertainment (both Grant Overton).
[87] The quotations are from the first two pages of The Old Maid.
[88] The Age of Innocence.
[89] In New Year’s Day.
[90] “I admit most fully that I myself proceeded with Lord Carson to great lengths—and would even have proceeded to greater—in order to prevent the forcible inclusion of the Northern provinces in a Parliament sitting at Dublin.”—The Earl of Birkenhead in America Revisited (1924) page 40.
[91] Where Are We Going? (1923), by the Right Hon. David Lloyd George.
[92] The Genesis of the War (1923), by the Right Hon. Herbert H. Asquith.
[93] See Chapters [1] and [11].
[94] See [Chapter 12].
[95] Quoted from the article, “Progress of Frank L. Packard,” in the Argosy-Allstory Weekly for 3 February 1923.
[96] See article, “Progress of Frank L. Packard,” in the Argosy-Allstory Weekly for 3 February 1923.
[97] The Adventures of Jimmie Dale, page 20.
[98] “The Story—The Precious Corner Stone,” by Frank L. Packard in The Photodramatist for November (1923?)
[99] “The Literary Spotlight: Mary Johnston,” in The Bookman for July, 1922. Reprinted in The Literary Spotlight (book published 1924).
[100] “What You Should Know About American Authors: Mary Johnston,” in the New York Herald for 21 June 1922 (book section).
[101] See “The Literary Spotlight: Mary Johnston” in The Bookman for July, 1922. Reprinted in The Literary Spotlight (book published 1924).
[102] Opening lines of “Virginiana,” by Mary Johnston, in The Reviewer for February, 1922.
[103] In The Reviewer. Reprinted in The World Tomorrow for February, 1924.
[104] In The Reviewer for April, 1922.
[105] It must be premised that “growth” in an artist is a term upon which agreement as to definition is probably impossible. Nevertheless it is loosely used by all of us to denote a certain progression in the work of such a writer as Henry James or Thomas Hardy. It may or may not, I suspect, mean greater or more enduring work, but it almost invariably must mean work of a more marked idiosyncrasy, more stamped with the personality of the author, and probably written with a noticeable idiom of style. Subject is hardly a safe test.