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...Premier Mussolini ordered the Ministry of Public Instruction to take steps for the recovery of these galleys. Experts opined that the only feasible method will be to tunnel into the side of the extinct volcano of which the Lago di Nemi is the crater, and thus drain off the deep water which thwarted two previous attempts by divers and grapples...
...Mauna Loa's first eruption in five years. Comparatively little destruction attended it. Few, if any, lives were lost. The lava flowed chiefly south and west from three orifices, demolishing but one village, Hoopuloa (chief remaining centre of grass-skirt dancing), which it buried 50 feet deep. An eastward flow demolished four ranch houses...
...Significance. Brilliant Gilbert Frankau, the author, intended, it would seem, to write a novel on a grand scale of deep British significance. Modern English landscape, modern London streets, horse-racing, prizefighting, tea parties, labor strikes, auctions, motoring?the story ventures thrillingly up and down the land. Perhaps most thrilling of all is the politics. No mean orator himself, Mr. Frankau introduces a fascinating Jewish playwright to wax eloquently Tory. Yet, in spite of all this, the author seems to have become so absorbed by John Masterson and his unfortunate bride that as the story proceeds he forgets sociology...
...GREAT VALLEY?Mary Johnston?Little, Brown ($2). Here is one of the biggest canvases of the year, a high and deep wilderness panorama, the Great Valley or Shenando Country?New Virginia, as they called it, whither John Selkirk came with his family to have the God of his Scotch fathers in peace. Historical fidelity and great narrative sweep are executive abilities of the author, who came to fame in 1900 with To Have and to Hold, and last year scored with another novel of early Virginia, The Slave Ship...
...said: "There is nothing at Carnegie Tech that can be called drunkenness. . . . Like Hamlet, I have shot my arrow o'er the house and hurt my brother. . . . All the statements attributed to me which reflect upon our student body, I withdraw. ... I express to you, one and all, my deep sorrow. . . ." He went on to say that he had been caught completely off his guard by a question from Senator Reed at the hearing, had spoken in the heat of an excited moment...