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Two wandering Americans whose mission of "doing Europe," has been somewhat complicated by a sudden shortage of funds to meet hotel bills, seek escape by disguising themselves as two Italian organ grinders. Young Gretchen, a burgomaster's daughter, is suspected of wanting to elope in order to avoid marriage with...
Born in Augusta, Maine the late Tycoon Mulliken went to Chicago in 1868 and amassed an enormous fortune selling switches, signal towers, hand-cars and other supplies to the booming railroads of the U. S. In 1922 he established the investment banking house of Mulliken & Roberts in New York City...
The Vagabond, retreating from the snow flurries to the airy warmth of his tower, meditates by preference on those not-so-spacious but still glamorous days when Leicester's barge moved down the Thames in the evening, when a bribed servant brought a certain ring to Elizabeth on the morning...
"Coleridge was visited with the Muse and was henceforth haunted. Wordsworth was of the opposite poetic type. Whether the bulk of his literary achievements are so much greater than Coleridge's is uncertain. Whether his gift stayed with him to the last is likewise uncertain. He went on droning 'the...
THE HAUNTED MIRROR - Elizabeth Madox Roberts-Viking ($2.50). Of the South that William Faulkner writes about, it has been said that no one else has ever seen it. The same comment could be made on Authoress Roberts' Kentucky. Her Kentuckians, their ways of speaking and their goings-on, are...