There have been several famous Americans named Anderson. In recent years, the outstanding one has been Marian Anderson, a singer.
She was born in Philadelphia in 1908. Her first important concert was with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra in 1925, when she was only 17 years old.
Since then she has sung in important cities and countries all over the world, and many critics have said she has the greatest voice of her times. Miss Anderson is a member of the Negro race and in 1954 she became the first member of her race to sing with the Metropolitan Opera Company in New York City. Maxwell Anderson, a noted playwright, was born in Atlantic, Pennsylvania, in 1888.
His first successful play, which he wrote with Laurence Stallings, was called What Price Glory? and was produced in 1924. His works include many other successful plays. Sherwood Anderson, who was born in Camden, Ohio, in 1876 and died in 1941, wrote many novels and short stories. His most successful book was called Winesburg, Ohio. It was a collection of short stories.
Spiders In The Garden
Watching for their prey in the centre of a radiating geometrical snare, we often find the garden spiders. The beauty of their vertical orb-webs and the large size of these strikingly marked creatures always attract our attention during summer strolls.
Jack & Jill The Vulture Twins
Probably this story of Jack and Jill, the Vulture Twins, would never have been written, if Betsy, Farmer Parsons' old brindle cow, had not refused to come up from the woods one night. But she wouldn't come, so Farmer Parsons had to go down after her.
At Home With Mr. Burroughs
Youth still peered out at me in spite of his crowning thatch of silvery hair when I first met John Burroughs in 1904. As we walked together on our way to his rustic little house in the woods called "Slab-sides,"
