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When M. Yoshizawa, new Japanese Minister to China, arrived in Peking, he found neither President nor Premier to whom he might present his credentials. The practical Nipponese committed the unprecedented act of keeping his Letters of Credence in his pocket. He informed the Chinese Foreign Office and the foreign Legations that he had assumed the functions of Minister...
...Haldeman-Julius contributed an article on Culture and the Workers in which he declared that taste does not follow class distinctions. He based his argument on the popularity of his " Pocket Series " of books, chiefly reprints of literary classics. Mr. Haldeman-Julius has sold over 30,000,000 of these in three years.* The best seller of the group is Plato's Trial and Death of Socrates. Said Mr. Haldeman-Julius of the working man and these volumes: "He can read the biography of a great man while riding to work; can learn the gist of Chinese philosophy during...
Napoleon Bonaparte was the author of a number of maxims and sayings appearing in the latter part of the magazine (excerpts from Maxims by Napoleon, No. 155 of the Pocket Series...
...differences between the various "pathies" are often puzzling to the laity, but here is a pocket Baedeker...
According to accounts, he paid for the entire trip out of his own pocket. He is also reported to have written to the Shipping Board asking that he be allowed to pay his expenses on the Leviathan's trial trip. He is expected to join Secretary of War Weeks on a tour of the Eastern Army posts in August. Already he has investigated the proposed new naval base at Alameda, Calif., reclamation projects in the West, and the needs of the Canal Zone in fortifications...