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UNCENSORED RECOLLECTIONS-Anonymous - Lippincott - ($4.50). Degrees of anonymity are as thick as the classic leaves that strewed the brooks in Vallombrosa. Some authors veil their names for a variety of excellent reasons, among which is, probably the most frequent, the desire to increase a book's circulation by preying on the public curiosity. Other authors have less excellent motives, and sometimes don the domino of anonymity solely for protection...
...Matthew Woll, President of the International Photo-Engravers' Union, is an .intimate of Mr. Gompers. As a lawyer, he has been closely associated with every major litigation of the A. F. of L. in recent years. Smooth shaven, thick-haired, round-faced, Woll J- a fluent talker...
...great oaks the coiling ivy rushed down at him and, when he lopped the tendrils the trees themselves moved upon him in a foremost phalanx, forcing him to blaze his trail to the lawns of the palace of Elfland. There he slew the palace guard-four splendid knight whose thick and curious elfin blood was awesome to behold. And Lirazel, the Elf King's daughter, stood among the bluebells and gazed am wondered and loved and went away with Alvaric to the Vale of Erl in the fields men knew...
...surmounted by a shock of bushy black hair; his eyes, like those of all born revolutionaries, are coal black, luminous, revealing intensity and some times an appealing tenderness, but capable of flashing fire-"ashes and sparks my words among mankind." In stature he is of medium height, with a thick-set figure, beefy as a bull...
...American Swineherd, 35,150; Breeder's Gazette, 60,084; Leghorn World, 30,662; Stock and Dairy Farmer, 40,374; Physical Culture 306,000, *There exists no Senator McFadden. †Senator Nelson (Minnesota) has been dead these 14 months (April, 1923). Senator Nelson had thick white hair, a white beard, The pseudo "Senator Nelson" in Bernarr Macfadden's picture is quite bald...