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...TIME'S editor losing his virility that he must print in Feb. 16 issue letters from readers calling attention to the five months Calles baby. As a cover-to-cover reader this is the first time that I have found that which smacks of gossip in your columns...
...trite saying that the only really satisfactory anthology is that which the individual reader composes for himself is perhaps quite true. Nevertheless there are anthologies and anthologies and their degree of excellency depends on the discrimination of the compiler and his sense of what selections should be juxtaposed. The modern fad of the amusingly incongruous is exemplified by such mixtures as the "Weekend Book" where selections are grouped in compartments such as Great Poems, Hate Poems, State Poems, and so on ad absurdum. In the "Winter Miscellany" however Humbert Wolfe restrains himself to selections on the subject of winter...
...pieces chosen are both prose and poetry and are picked from all periods and sources of English literature. Perhaps the most pleasing prose selections to the reviewer were those from Gilbert White's "Natural History of Selborne," but the favorites will probably vary with each individual reader. It is not a book to be read at a sitting but one from which choice bits can be culled at the reader's leisure. The format and cuts are more than ordinarily attractive, and taken all in all the book impresses me as one that will stand the test of time...
...president of Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad Co.For two years Mrs. Burt and her brothers have been quietly, diligently searching for Horace, onetime student in Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Their search availed them nothing. Finally they resorted to the hope that Horace, who had been a thoroughgoing Post reader, would chance to stumble upon himself in the magazine's back pages...
...said: "Every reader of Lincoln's life will be benefited immeasurably. As to fiction among those I like best are Dickens. Bulwer-Lytton, Stevenson, Scott, Dumas, Hugo and Mark Twain...