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...moved to New York?the fantastic adventure of Willy?and Bertha's anonymous gift of a battered concertina to the son she never spoke to?a gift that put him on the path of music and led him to become a great pianist, later. Passage of years???Bertha at last returned to Front Street?to find the old landmarks changed, the old boarding house gone, herself growing...
...seldom that one man in a lifetime?even a lifetime of 78 years??? engages in as many stirring events as fell to the lot of Rear Admiral Charles Dwight Sigsbee, U. S. N., retired. He died last week in Manhattan, where he had lived since his retirement in 1907, and general notice was taken of the death of the man who commanded the Maine at the time of its sinking in Havana harbor...
...Chicago, still at the same trade; then to Springfield, Ill., as a clerk in the State Department. There he studied law, was admitted to the bar, married? and from there returned to Toledo. There he was elected Mayor on an Independent ticket and held that office for eight years???through a maelstrom of strikes and political campaign. At the end he retired voluntarily...
...Book of My Youth is a vivid and sincere picture of the arduous and unflinching struggle toward maturity of a powerful and independent personality. For the most part it may be fairly said to lack the charm and grace with which Anatole France, for instance, recounts his early years???the manner is solid rather than suave?much of the description, were it written of a fictitious character, would lack the fortuitous interest it attains from its concern with Sudermann himself...
...only daughter of a wealthy Middle Western mother, who was doing her best to " début" her daughter into Washington society. Gwendolyn's debut flivvered, but Ralph did not. He was canny, waited and won her and her fortune. He had grown a trifle tubby with the passage of years???he would grow more corpulent still, but he had succeeded. The fleshpots were his. He ends, for the present, as Executive Secretary of the National Commercial (lobbying) Association, at a salary of $25,000 a year. Before he dies, one imagines, he will have become so prominent that...