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Meanwhile the wrath of Manufacturer George D. Haskell (Bausch Machine & Tool Co.) of Springfield, Mass., has grown mighty. Years ago he decided that the Aluminum Co. of America was monopolizing a highly profitable business. So, with the intention of intruding and at the expense of much time, pains and money, he learned that the Aluminum Co. controlled the great U. S. deposits of bauxite, the commercial ore from which aluminum is extracted. These deposits are in Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, Arkansas. The Aluminum Co. also controls the great bauxite deposits of British and Dutch Guiana, and buys up much...
Rearing the healthy little animal is comparatively easy. Destroying Lottie, the handsome, ignorant grown animal, is difficult indeed. The ruse of giving Lottie rein in a cheap flirtation fails through Ralph's weak forgiveness. Mrs. Bascomb lives away for some years, torn free. When she returns things are worse than before. Small Dids is "on the town," getting tough while Lottie joyrides; Ralph is still grubbing...
...during the presidency of her father, Dr. James Hulme Canfield) and at Columbia University. She married John Redwood Fisher, a Columbia football captain. With her artist mother, she has spent years abroad. In Rome she knew Mme. Montessori and wrote A Montessori Mother which was widely translated. Her two grown daughters-Mrs. Fisher is now 47-bear witness to an intelligent upbringing. Her study is on a Vermont farm. Other books that have come from it: The Squirrel Cage, The Bent Twig, Home Fires in France, The Brimming Cup, the U. S. translation of Papini's Life of Christ...
...TIME OF MAN-Elizabeth Madox Roberts - Viking Press ($2.50). It is felt at once that this book was a long time in the writing; that, now it is here, it constitutes a distinguished contribution to the abiding literature of this continent. It must have grown, as it grows upon the reader, like a vine of bittersweet or wild grape covering a stone wall. It is similarly eloquent of Nature, similarly unobtrusive, hardy and humbly fair to behold. It is the story of a Kentucky hill child, Ellen Chesser, groping instinctively through a scrawny, vagabond adolescence, with no attention from...
BELLARION - Rafael Sabatini - Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). Mr. Sabatini's new hero is but a few hours out of the convent where he has grown from a nursling to huge-thewed manhood, when he finds himself racing through the footways of Casale with angry pikemen after him. He pauses by a studded door like the Sire de Maletroit's door in Stevenson and is vastly relieved to find it unlocked. Within is a tawny-headed damsel who, after she has concealed the handsome fugitive, quite alters his plan to study Greek at the University of Pavia. No lady...