Word: scribner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...PANTS-John W. Thomason Jr.-Scribner's ($2.50). A hurried Kipling, a carelessly capable War correspondent, Artist-Author-Captain Thomason writes about marines and soldiers, sailors and adventurers on the hot coasts of Cuba and in the lively fields of France. Exhibiting the scattered but emphatic vigor of exploding shrapnel, his stories lack the controlled and deliberate, effectiveness of heavier artillery...
...changed to the pitching mound only this spring, and thus far has hurled the University to victory over the Williams batters, whom he held to two hits, and pitched in the 3 to 3 tie played a week ago with the Alumni nine. HARVARD BROWN Burns c.f. l.f. Scribner Chase l.f. c.f. Edes Zarakov 3b. 1b. Parker Lord 1b. r.f. Hefferman Chauncey c. c. Gurney Ullman 2b. p. or 3b. Billings Donaghy s.s. 2b. Randall Jones r.f. s.s. Wright Barbee p. 3b. Chase or Schuster p. Burgess or Rawlings...
...Times, of which the first part (through 1904) was published last year by Chas, Scribner & Sons. * Having an immense memory, a facile tongue...
MARCHING ON?James Boyd? Scribner's ($2.50). Jimmy Eraser, son of a Georgia landowner and grandson of the hero of Author Boyd's loud-beaten Drums, hears tales from his uncle of the past glory of their clan. He sees one day the enameled fields and the mansions of Cape Fear, where rich planters raise rice. He goes home unable to forget the beauty of opulent places, still less able to forget the hushed charm of a girl's voice. He falls in love with Stewart Prevost before he sees her. When friendship prompts her to offer him some money...
...would bring several thousand dollars at auction. Lewis Carroll's correaction of his "Phantasmagoria," one of the recently acquired Carroll collection, is also on show, as is the proof of "Confessions of a Unionist," by Stevenson. This work, which deals with the Irish question, was originally set up for Scribner's Magazine, but as they did not dare to publish it for fear of causing trouble, it was not actually brought out until recently...