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...Significance. A picturesque, rapid narrative, superbly adapted for spectacular filming, especially as regards the Argentinian episodes, where Ibanez, with his flair for local color, is rather better than when attempting to describe high society in the Ouida vein. A well constructed novel, whose catchy title should lure a large public?not one-tenth-of-one-percent. of durability in its fabric, but very saleable goods for the Autumn trade...
...Frost, a Californian transplanted to Vermont soil, took book-learning fitfully at Dartmouth, then at Harvard, reverted early to the teachings of nature in open fields and wooded hill country. He was and is a farmer, by temperament and occupation, but has found time to teach, first at a local academy, later at normal school and Amherst College (1916-20). His published works are contained in four slim volumes. He has a reputation for thinking much, transcribing little. He returns this Fall to Amherst...
...whole face of Old Sol obscured by the moon's shadow for a few brief moments - a sight which has not been visible in the United States since June 8, 1918. A time-table of the eclipse's visitation to the various cities of the United States (local standard time) is appended: Percentage Time of Disk Maximum Place. Covered. Eclipse. New York 46% 4:38 P. M. Boston 42 4:36 " Buffalo 45 4:31 " Washington 50 4:39 " Chicago 52 3:26 " St. Paul 51 3:15 "; St. Louis 60 3:29 "; Atlanta...
...social progress. Mr. Associate Justice Pierce Butler, who lives in St. Paul, animadverted upon the disuses of radicalism in colleges. This reference was taken to be a defense of himself. (When President Harding elevated him to the Supreme Court it was charged that Mr. Butler's attitude toward local centers of learning had been quite bourbon.) In his peroration Mr. Butler inveighed against the demagogue. The speech of the Secretary of State added the last word to the bibliography of the Monroe Doctrine. (See page...
...Villard's chief point is that "to get a survey of all the national news originating in Washington, one has had to buy a New York, Philadelphia or Baltimore daily" It is the Washington correspondents, not the local newspaper men, who are the journalists who have influenced the political life of the capital. "They are the ones whom the politicians read eagerly, of whom they stand in awe, especially those whose duty it is to keep the folks back home informed as to what Congressman X and Senator Y are doing...