Life — February 20, 1913 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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Boccaccio” Why memorials to him are being Master of the Short Story”* prepared; why universities are planning “Creator of a New Literature’ , tablets to his memory; why text books paccverer of Remsnce i8.N of English Literature are including his he American 06 Manpacesnt, why colleges are discussing his Pounder of a New Style” place in literature; why theatrical firms “America's Greatest Story Teller”* are vying for the rights to dramatize his “The 20th Century Haroun -al-Raschid, stories; why newspapers all over the who takes you to every corner of his country are continually offering beloved Bagdad—New York.” for the right to reprint his stories, The American World Meets in “O. Henry’s” Pages and Gets to Know Itself Better His Books are Inimitable—Human as the Clasp of a Friend's Hand and as Alive as the Laughter of a Child. A Born Writer of Short Stories—the Color of American Soil Teems in his Pages. Not to Know “O. 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