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...Rafael Sabatini three years ago was all but unknown in America. Since then, with the publication of "Scaramouche", half a million copies of his books have been sold: As witness of his great popularity Houghton Mifflin Company are to issue a uniform collected edition of his works in thirteen volumes of short stories based on historical themes, and two important works of history. Sabatini's latest book, "Mistress Wilding", is a colorful romance of the rebellion of the Duke of Monmouth. A review of this new Sabatini novel will, we hope, appear in the CRIMSON Book shelf shortly...
Died. General Rafael Lopez Gutierrez, onetime President of Honduras and since Feb. 1 (when his presidential term expired) dictator of that country; of natural causes...
Madre. A doleful tale of the insufficiency of marriage is herein unfolded. The author is a Spaniard, Rafael Marti Orbera. Those whose preconceptions of Spain are inextricably confused with the crackle of castanets and the present vogue in Spanish shawls are faced with fearful disappointment. The tragedy of the play is quite unrelieved; it is almost Russian. The plot depicts the domestic chaos consequent upon the return from the wars of Fidel and his attempted seduction of his sister-in-law. His brother, her husband, finally slips a knife into Fidel's left ventricle. The acting is inadequate despite...
...realm of the psychic. No longer does Scotland Yard, at the all-powerful command of Doyle, call the great detective from a lift of deep research to help in solving all the particularly difficult and interesting murders. Nowadays Commissioner Enright of the New York Police Force calls in Rafael Schermann, famous Polish "psycho-graphologist" to help him solve the enigmatic Elwell case. Verily, truth is stranger than fiction! Thirty odd years ago, every one regarded Sherlock Holmes, the scientific detective, as a type to be found only in fiction, while today such a staid and sober journal...
Tuberculosis. " Cures " for tuberculosis emanated from France, Germany, Spain inside of one month. Rafael Santos, 25-year-old Porto Rican medical student in Paris, constructed a set of lenses for introducing sun rays and ultraviolet rays into the lungs without injury to tissue, claiming it would kill all tuberculosis bacilli in less than half an hour...