Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1912 — Supplanting Mr. Howells. [ARTICLE]

Supplanting Mr. Howells.

Prof. Brand er Matthews, at a dinner in New York, said of literary criticism: “A good deal of it, too, is biased. ▲ good deal of it is like Mr. Walton's 1 “Mr. Walton’s daughter, a college girl, wrote, at the age of 18, a novel which her father bfOHght out for her at his own expense. "Daring the Christmas holidays Mr. Walton gave a party in his daughter's honor, and at this party the young girl read from an improvised platform chapters out of her book. “Her fend old father was carried away by the reading. So tremendously indeed did bis admiration for *** daughter's talent enkindle him that, as the girl read cm, the old man could be heard muttering over and over: “Howells be bulged! Howells be hanged!” , v -- /-.v-