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...sums up, "are not merely an enlargement of our European culture, still less a mere branch of it; they create a division of that culture into two?themselves and the rest." In a series of those lucid, convincing and ingratiating chapters of which he is so sure a master, he presents his analysis of our habits and customs, and his reasons for finding them so different from those of the Europeans? particularly of the British, whom less original commentators have always supposed us to resemble...
...Love Master. Strongheart is still one of the best screen actors, for this canine artist is as unconscious of self and of the camera as every hair on his back. In this story of the North he proves again his authentic appeal, winning a dog race at Banff on which his master's fortune-and the plot-hang. Strong-heart seems spurred on to greater efforts than usual, for this time he is performing before his consort and their family of five pups...
...Melody Man seems to be a jumble of The Music Master, The Show Shop and Potash and Perlmutter, cemented by the unshakeable popularity of Lew Fields...
...great number of its special and standing committees. Forty-seven years of age, he is a member of the firm of Rutter & Gross. Mr. Simmons is known in Wall street for his judicial poise, executive ability, unlimited courage. His first three initials are those of the great railroad master Edward H. Harriman, for whom he was named and to whom he is related. The new Stock Exchange head is said to resemble his remarkable namesake; "he never starts fights, never avoids them...
...Edward Elgar, composer of Pomp and Circumstance (as red-coated a British tune as Sousa's Stars and Stripes is true-blue American), has been created "Master of the King's Music," by special and personal appointment of H. M. King George. In this office he succeeds Sir Walter...