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When the young gentlemen of Harvard University returned to Cambridge last week, weary of vacation and longing to resume their studies, one of the first things many of them did was to visit the Coop (campus co-operative store) or Dunster House or Amee's bookshop, and buy a volume that had been published during the holidays. It was rather an expensive book. Much that it contained was already on the shelves of boys who read anything at all outside of the cinema magazines. Nevertheless it was a peculiarly desirable book. It was part of a legend...
When the young gentlemen of Harvard University returned to Cambridge last week, weary of vacation and longing to resume their studies, one of the first things many of them did was to visit the Coop (campus cooperative store) or Dunster House or Amee's bookshop, and buy a volume* that had been published during the holidays. It was rather an expensive book. Much that it contained was already on the shelves of boys who read anything at all outside of the cinema magazines. Nevertheless it was a peculiarly desirable book. It was part of a legend...
...Constance Garnett, to whom the great Russians own their most perfect translations into English, and grandson of Author Richard Garnett (Twilight of the Gods), David Garnett nearly betrayed his literary birthright by studying science (gentle Botany). But in 1920, aged 27, he was claimed by books. He opened a bookshop and fell to writing. Lady into Fox appeared after two years. Lest he turn back to science, he was awarded a prize. His wife, who was Rachel Marshall, does woodcuts...
With the destruction of the Dunster House Bookshop, another of the last few landmarks of historical Cambridge will be swept away before the swelling flood of business. The building dates back at least to 1750, and probably earlier, from the evidence of the mounding on the outside corners, and other architectural features of the house. It was originally only two stories the top story having been added 100 years ago, at about the time when the Advocate House was built...
...interesting feature of the old building is a brick floor three feet in the cellar. Maurice Feruski, proprietor of the Bookshop, said that this implied that the land around Mt. Auburn St., was formerly very mainly, and that the river probably came to within a few hundred feet of the old building...