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...Arthur Conan Doyle will undoubtedly attract wide interest in his series of lectures on spiritualism; and almost as surely, he will attract a large amount of criticism. For spiritualism, almost more than any other subject, has been exploited for long centuries; in Sir Arthur's wake there will almost certainly spring up a number of fraudulent mediums. This is apparently an evil which necessarily accompanies any kind of popular interest in an idea difficult to understand. In which last category all new ideas fall; the astrologers, phrenologists, palmists, and quack doctors who pursue their business profitably even in this 'enlightened...
...speak tonight of hunting spies as head of the Secret Service, or he may tell of the capture of those two Professor Moriartys of crime,--the MacNamaras; but whatever page of his career he decides to turn to, will be as interesting as the best of Conan Doyle come true...
John Kendrick Bangs entertained several hundred members of the Union in the Living Room last night, with anecdotes of his career as a lecturer and an account of some of the "Celubrities I Have Met," including Richard Harding Davis, Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, Andrew Carnegie, Judge Robert Grant '73, and Mark Twain...
...1913.Durfee, g. g., HalleBoyd, p. i.h., ForbushBriggs, Mansfield, c.p. o.h., BrockHale, 1d. 1a., BeatleyWarren, 2d. 2a., BailNichols, 3d. 3a., WhiteRoberts, c. c., EllisGustafson, 3a. 3d., DruckerBernard, Wiener, 2a. 2d., SimmonsParker, 1a. 1d., HutchinsonCandee, o.h. c.p., DaviesEarle, i.h. p., Conan...
...should be glad to find something showing more of the spirit of our little world in Cambridge. It is a big little world and yet awaits its Homer, even its Conan Doyle...