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...Studies in Classic American Literature,* D. H. Lawrence, red-bearded British apostle of the ultra-moderns, discusses such revered literary figures of America's past as Franklin, Cooper, Poe, Melville, Whitman...
American Magazine, American Traveller's Gazette, Annalist, Asia, Blanco Y Negro, Canadian Magazine, Century Magazine, Classic (Shadowland), Country Life (England), Country Life in America, Dial, Freeman, Harper's, Harvard Graduates Magazine, Illustrated London News, L' Illustration, Independent, Insurance World, International Studio, Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Life, Literary Digest, London Mercury, Nation, National Geographic Magazine, New Republic, Outing, Outlook, Overland Monthly, Punch, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Reviews, Saturday Evening Post, Scientific American Monthly, Scribners, Theatre, Vanity Fair, World's Work, Yale Alumni Weekly, Yale Review...
...comedian is W. C. Fields, hitherto chiefly known as a smasher of cigar boxes. He existed for several seasons on weekly allowances, from Florenz Ziegfeld in return for certain comic contributions to the Follies. His pool game, his golf game, his juggling were classic. He seldom spoke. Now he too has opened his mouth. He is promptly promoted to our first families of funny...
...Walsh, far from ranking the Nancy druggist with the charlatans, credits him with some homely usefulness. America, he says, is the quack's happy home. Some of our best families were founded in quackery. He recalls the 50-year vogue of lithium water, then the hypnotic wave made classic in Trilby and finally dooms modern psychoanalysis to the same neglect into which both the previous obsessions have fallen. Cures associated with superstition are also mentioned. Even in the 19th Century a peculiar efficacy was supposed to attach to the rope which had hanged...
Pavloff's name is best known to the Western world for his classic demonstration of the neurological basis of the digestive process in dogs. A normal animal, if hungry, shows increased flow of saliva and the digestive juices at the sight or smell of food. By a simple surgical operation, Pavloff brought the duct of a dog's salivary gland to the surface of the cheek and measured the flow under stimulus of food. At regular feeding times a bell was rung, and after several repetitions it was found that the sound of the bell alone, without food...