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...GOOD-Leonard Merrick-Button ($1.90). Leonard Merrick does only a few things and he always does them in the same way. That he usually manages to give them an original tang is high tribute to his unexcelled craftsmanship. In this book most of the old situations reassert themselves a little over-assiduously. There is the second-rate theatrical troupe an'd its provincial lodging houses. There is poverty-stricken Virtue roaming the London streets for chapters in search of shelter and employment. There is sentiment, barrels of it, verging narrowly on the sugary. But there is more than...
Philippines. The Philippine archepelago was inhabited by Chinese before its present natives, according to findings of an archeological expedition of the University of Michigan, headed by Dr. Carl E. Guthe. Hundreds of pieces of pottery of the Ming, Tang and Sung dynasties were unearthed...
Sanctions. The main demands under this heading are for the punishment of officials who are considered responsible for the bandit episode: General Tien Chung-Yu, Military Governor of Shantung; General Chang Wen-Tang, commander of the Puchow railway police; General Ho Feng-Yu, Defense Commissioner at Yenchowfu; Chao Te-Chao, officer commanding the guard on the train. All these persons are never again to be employed in the public service. The note also animadverts sharply on the lack of security for foreigners in China...
Adventurous souls who find safe-cracking monotonous and petty thievery degrading have flocked to rum running, a trade to test their spirit and to make their fortunes. In that occupation they find the tang of a sailor's life, the profits of a swindler, the exhilaration of evading the law, and a dash of old-time bucaneering...
...Cohen, R. L. Cudd, R. E. Ellinger, H. I. Fitz., E. V. French, W. C. Gray, J. Hammond, J. H. Hanford, B. M. Hulley, F. H. Kennedy, S. E. Mahoney, E. G. Mulligan, K. Morse, J. Moscow, C. D. Pinney, H. F. Puck, P. H. Stephnes, Y. L. Tang, F. C. Turner, G. C. Williams, N. I. White, S. Wetzler, E. B. Witte, C. N. Wolfe, V. H. Willard...