Canby, Henry Seidel

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Canby, Henry Seidel (1878—1961) Canby, a founder of Saturday Review of Literature and its editor until 1936, wrote Thoreau: A Biography (1939) and many books of literary and social criticism. Asked his views concerning humanism, Canby responded to the present author that it would take a week of work and ten or fifteen thousand words. But, he added,

I wrote in the 20’s several essays for the Saturday Review on humanism from the literary angle, and even spoke at the famous meeting at Carnegie Hall. My interests, however, were much more literary than philosophical, and in my busy life since I have not kept up in any scholarly fashion, though I have done quite a little reading. {WAS, 5 April 1949}