Shrewsbury

(1879- ), practitioners in all that O. Henry and London are not, of the finer fields, the more subtle nuances of modern life. With O. Henry and London, though perhaps less noteworthy, are to be grouped George Randolph Chester (1869- ) and Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb (1876- ). Then, standing rather each by himself, are Melville Davisson Post (1871- ), a master of psychological mystery stories, and Wilbur Daniel Steele (1886- ), whose work it is hard to classify. These ten names represent much that is best

subversive erudition with which, Carlyle remarked, ‘only the Siege of Troy offers some faint parallel’. It covered all subjects, theoretical and practical, and wasted no opportunity to promote the new ideas. Thus a seemingly innocuous article devoted to ‘Shrewsbury’ turns into a denunciation of clergy who use the pulpit to mislead the ignorant for their own sectarian ends. The Jesuits rightly regarded it as a destabilizing influence and opposed it vigorously. The parlement succeeded, temporarily, in having