+Bernhardt, Sarah+, 69
_Charles Henry Meltzer_
+Church and the Library, The+, 118
_Arthur E. Bostwick_
+Criticism and Bad Manners+, 138
_Floyd Dell_
+Dempsey’s Five-Foot Shelf, Mr.+, 18
_Heywood Broun_
+Dickens of It, The+, 89
_Keith Preston_
+Gentle Argonauts, The+, 28
_William McFee_
+Hundredth Amendment, The+, 250
_Oliver Herford_
+Landmark Passes, A+, 114
_Arthur Bartlett Maurice_
+Mencken, H. L., An Open Letter to+, 55
_Hugh Walpole_
+Mencken, Mr., Replies+, 66
_H. L. Mencken_
+Murray Hill’s Recollections of James Huneker+, 185
_Robert Cortes Holliday_
+Negro in American Literature, The+, 259
_Benjamin Brawley_
+Nietzschean Pilgrim Fathers+, 237
_Dorothy Canfield Fisher_
+New Word in Play Producing, The+, 153
_Zona Gale_
+O. Henry, Playwright+, 198
_Alexander Woollcott_
+On Works of Reference+, 132
_Aline Kilmer_
+Peabody, Josephine, “The Piper,”+ 77
_Abbie Farwell Brown_
+Religion and the Theatre+, 173
_Kenneth Macgowan_
+Santayana’s, George, “Life of Reason,”+ 227
_Burton Rascoe_
+Spotlight or Fame?+, 38
_John Erskine_
+Surrender Books+, 47
_Thomas L. Masson_
+Unreality of Modern Realism, The+, 95
_Mary Roberts Rinehart_
+Why of the Best Seller, The+, 159
_William Lyon Phelps_
+Women as Audience+, 215
_Mary Austin_
+Wright American, The+, 104
_Hildegarde Hawthorne_
THE BOOKMAN ANTHOLOGY
OF ESSAYS [_1923_]
THE
BOOKMAN ANTHOLOGY
OF ESSAYS
_Heywood Broun_
Large, shambling, often ill at ease, kindly, yet with that curious
detachment which marks those who are much absorbed in their own
thought, Heywood Broun invariably impresses one as possessing a
child-like eagerness. Whether as sport writer, feature writer, critic
of books or plays, colyumnist, essayist or novelist, his writing is
characterized by the same freshness, the same accuracy of reporting. He
was born in Brooklyn. For a time he attended Harvard University. His
greatest enthusiasm is, perhaps, for baseball, though he likes poker. I
like best to think of him in his office at the New York “World”, about
fifteen minutes before copy is due for the morning paper, surrounded
by papers, letters from contributors, his own jottings, what not,
spinning a yarn from nowhere, gathering an opinion from the wind as it
whistles around the tower of the Pulitzer Building. His wife is Miss
Ruth Hale, writer and motion picture critic. His child is well known
to the public through his father’s writings as “H 3d.” I have attended
football games, theatres, dinners, and heaven save me, teas, with Mr.
Broun. He always shows fresh curiosity for events as they unfold, a
gentle sympathy for all types of men and a thorough disrespect for
all forms of snobbery. It is natural that in the following essay he
should defend the somewhat frowned on champion of the ring. Dempsey’s
child-like determination could not but appeal to the mind of Mr. Broun.
If he were not so clever, he would be sentimental; as it is, he is
thoroughly human.