Sir Henry Rider Haggard was not a great artist in anyone's estimation, least of all his own. Still less was he a great writer of short fiction; one seeks in vain for his name in critical surveys of the short story of the nineteenth or early twentieth cen...
A man of diverse talents and a writer eager to try his skills at many different kinds of writing projects, both nonfiction and fiction, H. Rider Haggard is best remembered by general readers of fantasy for his fourth and fifth books, King Solomon's Mines...
Henry Rider Haggard, K.B.E., wrote tales of romantic adventure which may be termed "mysteries" only in a nonconventional sense of the term. The reader encounters no Poirots, no Lord Peter Wimseys, no clues; and while there are murders aplenty, they are n...
PASADENA, CA Jess PASADENA MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA ART "Got Wallace's Art Forum [sic ] (tore out everything else) and made a delightful Berman pamphlet," reported Jess (ne Burgess Collins in Long Beach, California, in 1923) to his lifelong partner, the poet...
We play this game at our house. It's called "Where's Jesse?" At breakfast, we all write down three places where we think Jesse Jackson will be during the day-a labor dispute in Miami, a political luncheon in New York and negotiating for a hostage...
Hollywood offers a new spin on the legend of Jesse James when "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford," starring Brad Pitt as James, opens Sept. 21.If the movie sparks your interest in the famous outlaw, there are plenty of places in...
On a day when the Times rewrites our Rupert-and-Hillary romance (two months late, but thanks for the plug!), the Post (whose idea of giving credit to another source is "it emerged") eschews the meta and puts out a special collectors-edition issue that shows why, love...
