John Kendrick Bangs, as the invariable tripartite nomenclature on the spines of his many books might attest, was a genteel figure whose humorous writing is characterized by a gentle and, at times, unremitting wit, erudition, irony, and urbanity. He was...

During the 1890s and into the twentieth century John Kendrick Bangs was one of the major humorists in the United States. As humor editor of Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Harper's Bazar, Harper's Weekly, and Harper's Young People for over a decade, he...

Mel Kendrick's woodblock relief drawings follow a long history of Modernist art using wood grain as a means of conveying the roots of the creative process. The texture of the wood against the drawings conveys movement and a primitive symbolism suggesting a prelinguistic code....

When National Bank of Washington failed last month, William S. Ogden called his old friend Robert Strauss to ask if Strauss's Washington law firm could take on the bank's legal work. Ogden, put in charge of the bank by federal regulators, needed a...