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4 7 7 Howard Haycraft and the Detective Story September 1999 Volume 3 Number 3 Sherlock Holmes "Your merits should be publicly recognized" (STUD) Contents Howard Haycraft and the Detective Story WILLIAM VANDE WATER, B.S.I. Howard Hay craft and he University of Minnesota is the history and technique of the detective the Detective Story inseparably linked to the detective story. To his surprise, the librarian told 1 story No, not by the Sherlock him there was no such volume. To our T Holmes Collections, although that delight, he proceeded to write one. reinforces the link. Nor by Dr. Philip 100 Years Ago Murderfor Pleasure: The Lije and Times of 3 Hench, whose collection formed the base of the current Sherlockian holdings. In the Detective Story was published to rave fact, even without the Sherlock Holmes reviews in 1941. As you might suspect, 50 Years Ago Collections (homble thought), the con- Holmes looms large in the book. It would 3 nection would remain. be hard to write such a history in which he did not. Just as hard as it would be to From the President The link was forged in the late 1930's, write a history of the genre without men- when a graduate of the University of tioning the name of the Minnesotan 4 Minnesota walked into the New York turned New Yorker, Howard Haycraft. Public Library and asked for a book on Acquisitions Continued on Page 6 An Update from the Collections 'i Musings 5 Treasures, Tales and Tea 7 About the Hay craft Collection 7 Using the Sherlock Holmes Collection Howard Haycraft, B.S.I. 8 Toasting "thebest and wisest man" February 3, 1957 Remembrances 8 Friends ofthe Sherloch Holm Collections P 1 The Sherlock Holmes Collections has John Kendrick Bangs was a prolific Dr. Philip Hench's copy with signed writer. His ~therwritings that included inscription by Bangs, Frederick W Sherlocluan material were R Holmes G Sluff's bookplate and Vincent Starrett's Co., (1906), Potted Fiction (1908), and ownership signature dated 1947. The Shylock Homes: His Posthumous Memoirs, book is bound in brown cloth with which was edited and introduced by gold gilt lettering and a red lobster on Jon L. Lellenberg (The Dispatch-Box the cover. The Collections also has Press, Arlington VA, 1973). According John Bennett Shaw's The Dreamers, A to Mr. Lellenberg, hswas a 1903 Club (Freeport NY,Books for Libraries newspaper series of Sherlock Holmes 1899 was a busy year for John Press, 1969) and Otto Penzler's The parodies that had not been collected in Kendrick Bangs (1862-1922). In fact, Mysterious Sherlock Holmes #2 The book form at the time. In 1944, Ellery the entire decade was his as an editor Mystery of Pinkham's Diamond Stud, Queen included one of them in his the with wide influences on comic jour- published separately for the first time Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes. But nalism. Bangs was the central figure in by The Mysterious Bookshop, 1999. that is another story w American humor of the period. His brilliance was evident in his many On September 2, 1899 Harper's Richard J. Sveum, M. D. contributions to magazines. The arti- Weekly published "Sherlock Holmes cles were then collected into best sell- Again" by John Kendrick Bangs. It ing books. Bangs was the editor of appeared in book form as the ninth Harper's Weekly 1893 when The chapter in The Enchanted Tjye-Writer Adventures of Sherlock Holmes was seri- (Harper & Brothers, New York, 1899), alized. Arthur Conan Doyle visited by Bangs and illustrated by Peter Bangs at his home in Yonkers, New Newell. The story has Sherlock York in October, 1894. He hosted a Holmes as a deceased detective in lecture by Conan Doyle at the Yonkers Hades. Sherlock Holmes Again was also Lawn Tennis Club and they played published by The Mysterious golf at the St. Andrew's Club in Bookshop in 1999 as the Mysterious Yonkers. His biography John Kendrick Sherlock Holmes #8. Bangs, Humorist of the Nineties was written by his son, Francis Hyde Bangs, and published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1941. A House-Boat on the Styx (Harper & Brothers, New York, 1896) started his tales of the Associated Shades. The first American book containing a Holmes parody was The Pursuit of the House-Boat: Being Some Further Account of the Diverse Doings of the Associated Shades, under the Leadership ofsherlock Holmes, Esq. (Harper & Brothers, New York, 1897). The book is dedicated to A. Conan Doyle, Esq., "With the author's sincerest regards and thanks for the untimely demise of his great detective which made these things pos- sible." On April 1, 1899 Harper's Bazaar pub- lished Bang's "The Mystery of Pinkham's Diamond Stud". It was included in The Dreamers, A Club, by John Kendrick Bangs and featured illustrations by Edward Penfield (Harper & Brothers, New York, 1899). 2 P Friends of the Sherlock Holmes Collections book, Donn Byrne, Bard of Armagh, was 4 published in 1929. 1931's The Festive Board, A Literary Feast is described as, an enjoyable anthology of gastronomic i writings. In 1949, Ziff-Davis Omnibus, From Homer to Hemingway. This 462 page book also carries Shaw's 18 bookplate and the typed note "contains For those who have "the collection SILVER BLAZE pages 59-87". The mania in its most acute form" (ILLU), introduction to the anthology was it may be said that they "hear of written by Bing Crosby His first Sherlock everywhere". (GREE). John paragraph states: Bennett Shaw was this type of collec- "Some months ago I was impor- tor. Two anthologies from Shaw's col- tuned by Mr. Bob Hope to write a lection, both published in 1949, fea- foreword to Mr. Macauley's equine ture The Adventure of Silver Blaze. anthology. In fact. Mr. Hope, with his usual bland assurance, had The Horse-Lovers' Anthology was edited told Mr. Macauley that I by Shirley Faulkner-Horne, and pub- was happy, even eager, to do so. lished by H. E & G. Witherby Ltd. Of Why Mr. Hope should delegate from the film. The article "Sherlock London. Faulkner-Horne was born in this interesting chore to me, rather Holmes, the great detective takes a new Grantham in Great Britain in 1919, than assume it himself, is some- lease on life" is on pages 77-82. The and specialized in writing horse sto- thing that eludes me, for anyone story notes the publication of three ries. Among her works were Parachute who has ever unwittingly new books about Holmes; Profile by Silk, Green Trails, White Poles, Mexican auditioned his hokey half hour on Gaslight, The Misadventures of Sherlock Saddle, Bred in the Bone, Pat and Her the radio knows that he has long Holmes, and Sherlock Holmes and DK Polo Pony, Ridingfor Children, and been a self-appointed 'flack' for all Watson. Illustrations from the Canon Riding with the Kindles. Shaw's copy of my turf activities." as well as photos of actors William The Horse-Lovers' Anthology carries his Gillette, John Banymore, and Basil bookplate and the typed note " 'Silver Crosby goes on to indicate that the list Rathbone, and Sherlocluans Blaze' pp. 248-278", and the stamped of contributors "reads like a com- Christopher Morley, Rex Stout, Belden "Gaby Goldscheider Antiquarian pendium of all the literary lions of the Wigglesworth, Frederic Dannay and Books". The dust jacket note indicates past five centuries". In addition to Edith Meiser are included. that the contents include ".. .the short Conan Doyle, other authors in the stories of such masters as Conan anthology include John Steinbeck, Besides the two horse anthologies pub- Doyle, whose missing racehorse sets William Saroyan, John O'Hara, Sir lished in 1949, what else was happen- Sherlock Holmes an intriguing prob- Walter Scott, and Washington Irving. ing in horse racing that year? A horse lem.. .I1. Among the other contributors Macauley published his last book in named Capot came close to winning to the anthology were Charles 1985. The Constant Companion is an the Triple Crown in horse racing in Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Nancy anthology of dog stories from writers 1949. Jockey T. Atkinson (of the Mitford, Sir Walter Scott, and Winston such as John Steinbeck, James Thurber, Atlunson family mentioned in "A Churchill. The acknowledgements Charles Dickens, and Lord Byron. Scandal in Bohemia'?) rode Capot to cite Mr. Adrian Conan Doyle for Silver It contains a ten-page excerpt from first place finishes at the Preakness and Blaze, and George Newnes Ltd. for the Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Belmont Stakes, and second at the illustrations by Sidney Paget from The Baskervilles. Kentucky Derby The winner of the Last Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Derby was Ponder, ridden by a jockey The Great Horse Omnibus wasn't the first named Brooks (could he be related to Thurston Macauley was born in Ohio time that Bing Crosby and Sherlock one of the 50 criminals with a reason in 1901. He was an author and jour- Holmes appeared together in the same to kill Holmes in "The Bruce- nalist, working for The Baltimore Sun, publication. The May 1, 1944 LiJe Partington Plans'?) It seems that we The New York Evening Sun, The New magazine selected Going My Way, star- "hear of Sherlock everywhere". w York Herald, and The New York Times. ring Bing Crosby, as the movie of the Unlike Faulkner-Horne, he didn't limit week. Pages 69-72 feature pictures Julie McKuras his writing to horse stories. His first Friends of the Shedock Hob Collections P 3 From the President he Second Annual Friends of ance of $14,719.39. All money is held The highlight of the meeting was the Sherlock Holmes by the University Foundation in the Timothy Johnson's presentation of the Collections Membership John Bennett Shaw Fund.
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