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There is plenty of material which should entice the modern reader, for the original sponsors of the book had certain definite notions of what it was to be good for and what were its selling points. These they took laborious metrical pains to set forth beyond the possibility of doubt in a verse which, tastefully placed at the beginning, advertises the ensuing, volume with a skill rather perennial than antiquated...
...preached to a great part of the 1,800,000 Presbyterians in the U.S., at nearly every great international conference, in nearly every country. Under him, Foreign Missions has developed from the pioneer stage into a great civilizing force. Like Roosevelt, he is a lover of nature, an omnivorous reader with encyclopedic mind...
...categorize. Its entire freedom from the plot-and-story complex will puzzle a few, but its artistic handling will please more. Mr. Smart, for example, writes merely a series of biographical anecdotes and analyses which he labels a "Pilgrimage"; but his rich and nicely turned style leaves the reader with no desire for dramatic ingenuity. It seems to me that Mr. Smart might some time try his hand at actual rather than fictitious literary criticism with decided success; the Advocate could do very well with something of the sort. Mr. Edmonds, in his "Lilace", risen to fanciful heights...
...Hohenlohe-Langen-burg), who as a soldier and an author is a man of great distinction. Under his direction the above six volumes have been admirably prepared and set forth. The division of the material has been made wisely and in such a way as to cause the reader a minimum of inconvenience...
Konradi Leitner, famous Bavariah psychologist, mentalist, hypnotist, and mind reader, in a recent interview with a CRIMSON reporter, explained his method of transferring thoughts by giving the concrete explanation of reading the reporter's mind...