Studies and Reviews
- Overton.
- Bookm. 21 (’05): 456 (portrait); 27 (’08): 152 (portrait); 53 (’21): 212 (portrait).
- Lond. Times, June 23, 1921: 403.
- Nation, 113 (’21): 92.
- New Repub. 25 (’21): 233.
- See also Book Review Digest, 1915, 1918, 1920.
George Randolph Chester (Ohio, 1869)—novelist, short-story writer. The inventor of the Get-Rich-Quick-Wallingford type of fiction.
For bibliography, see Who’s Who in America.
Born at St. Louis, 1871. Graduate of U. S. Naval Academy, 1894. Honorary higher degrees. Member of New Hampshire Legislature 1903, 1905. Fought boss and corporation control and was barely defeated for governor of the state, 1908. Lives at Cornish, New Hampshire.
Suggestions for Reading
As an aid to analysis of Mr. Churchill’s work, consider Mr. Carl Van Doren’s article in the Nation, of which the most striking passages are quoted below:
To reflect a little upon this combination of heroic color and moral earnestness is to discover how much Mr. Churchill owes to the element injected into American life by Theodore Roosevelt.... Like him Mr. Churchill has habitually moved along the main lines of national feeling—believing in America and democracy with a fealty unshaken by any adverse evidence and delighting in the American pageant with a gusto rarely modified by the exercise of any critical intelligence. Morally he has been strenuous and eager; intellectually he has been naïve and belated.