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...born on Oct. 10, 1825, at Colesburg, Cape Colony, lived a life of desperate activity. In 1898 he was elected President of the Transvaal for the fourth and last time. In 1899 war with Great Britain was declared, but in 1900, too old, he was forced to retire from command. It was during his flight to Europe at this time that Kruger lost his fortune. He died at Vevey, on the shores of Lake Geneva, in Switzerland, July...
PICTURE FRAMES-Thyra Samter Winslow-Knopf ($2.50). This is a volume of short stories told with a complete command of detail. The best is called A Cycle of Manhattan. It tells how and by what gradual stages the Rosenheimers became the A. Lincoln Rosses, migrating from rooms over a Macdougal Street stable to Riverside Drive, Park Avenue, the East Sixties, and finally back again to the Macdougal Street rooms...
Colonel Moizo, a delegate to the Washington Arms Conference, will take command of the new force and will be promoted to the rank of general...
...seem to believe that a modern Aquinas will join Christian discovery and scientific discovery into a unity of aim which will command the allegiance of both head and heart. Or perhaps a John Wesley (who founded Methodism in the days of sophisticated Fox, Pitt, Catherine II, and the French Revolution) will re-emotionalize religion...
...greatest war games ever played by American warships will take place this month in the Gulf of Panama. The former Atlantic and the former Pacific fleets (now the United States fleet, under command of Admiral Hilary P. Jones) are gathering at the Canal...