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The Chain, by Charles Hanson Towne.
G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York City.
Mr. Towne's prologue to hia novel
Ib as fitting- a beginning for Its re
view aa it is for the book. He
writes;
"There is a chain around us all.
The links are forged by some high
god before we come fnto this world,
and we cannot escape from our
gaoler, whose name is Circumstance.
Sometimes we compromise with him,
and the chain lengthens for a while
until the inevitable hour comes
when we must compromise again.
"However we may deny it, we
are never quite free. The happiest
are those who realize their bond
age, and are not afraid of destiny.
"John Darrow was one of these."
In a general sense perhaps every
novel is a story of the chain of
circumstance, but it has remained
for Charles Hanson Towne to pro
duce one showing directly the forg
ing of the links, the tightening and
the lengthening, and the futility of
struggling against the unbreakable
thing. It is 'a tremendous subject
and Mr. Towne ha produced a tre
mendous novel from it. He has
written the story of the important
events in the ordinary life of a
brilliant man, John Darrow.
His writing is so close to life, so
full of the vital interests in each
man's days that in his style there
Is nothing more outstanding than
there i. in a day of life. To read
It is almost to be in it, and
this remarkable interest is gained
through the -vividness with which
John Darrow is portrayed. He
comes to be so beloved by the reader
that his smallest tribulation is the
reader's sorrow, .and the least Joy
a happy page.
To a squalid part of Brooklyn
John Darrow comes from upstate,
and writes clever things for the
"Ladies' Banner." For a companion
he has Nick Deeley, a likeable bad
boy, bad by nature, but with a vein
of genuine good in him; one of the
best characters to grace any fiction
this year at least.
Through his early struggles with
the chain, which sometimes twists
cruelly, into a degree of success,
but with the chain still tlgljt around
him, Darrow works. His friends,
his place, his nature form the chain;
sentimental catastrophe twice visits
him to form new links, and then
just as all these things have bound
him, they combine to. contrive the
lengthening of the chain which
trives him in the end all the free
dom that he asks.
There- is a succession of fine
characters. Martin Shaftsbury is
one, a poet of undeniable genius
and overbearing and crude in per
sonal contact. Every clique the
world over has its Gedley girls, lit
tle pebbles played with on the
beach now and then, persons who
are never nearer than the edge of
things. Constance Muin is another,
the actress who schemes to bleed his
genius with the bait of love; and
the whole pleasure-mad idle rich
Westbury set is real, in the midst
of which Darrow finds his salvation
In a girl.
There is apt to be disappointment
In this girl, Janet. Somehow she
doesn't seem big enough to pay
Darrow the happiness he has earned,
although he does find happiness
with her, perhaps because she is
his complement. -
But that is the charm of the book;
there is no glamor save what is
purely natural, and its characters
are as they are found, not as a
romantic fiction lover would have
them. ' i
The time written of Is the . age
Just past, when Victorianism still
hung on against the encroaching
freedom of the present and before
Charles Hanson Towne, author of
The Chain,"' a brilliant new
novel just published by G. P.
Putnam's Sons.
constructive essay, it takes on In
spots a flavor of editorial argumen
tation.
The title might indicate a variety
of treatment; a novel, a sermon, a
criticism. It is hi fact a good sum
ming up of the currents of economic
and social tendencies of the present
day, explaining the Influence of con
ditions and historical changes which
have taken place preliminary to this
age.
Professor Ross discusses In a
readable way such problems as im
migration, folk depletion and rural
decline, the influence of frontiers
on sociology and the" influence -of
the passing of the frontiers, the
economic causes for the assumption
of a place In man's world by women,
prohibition, war, and current psy
chology. ,
An interesting glimpse of his
writing can be gained from his
chapter on the changing domestic
conditions for women. He explains
that woman's place was in the home
up to the time that manufacture
ceased in the home and began in
factories, and then how the In
creasing efficiency of the age has
changed the home and deprived it
of many of Its former functions.
He is almost strident in demand
ing a place for women in all lines
of endeavor, and claims that the
whole scheme of civilization was
originally designed for men, with
little or no consideration paid to
the nature or needs of women, espe
cially in a spiritual way. He pays
a tribute to the present for the in
creased attention people are paying
to government and general public
conditions.
Such a .book can be very useful,
especially if it contains a good hon
est survey of the social trend, for
humanity as a whole dtes not watch
carefully where it is going and
needs, consequently, an occasional
setting to order.
Northwest, by Harold Blndloss. The Fred
erick A. Stokes company. New York
city.
Mr. Bindloss has created a char
acter, young Jimmy Leyland, who
is a weakling and the prey of gam
blers, crooks and schemers, and who
is blamed for a murder which he
did not commit, although he runs
away. With the Canadian mounted
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autobiographical in the book, espe
dally when the author, who has
been editor, poet and novelist, is
compared with John Darrow. And
there is a feeling that most of the
characters are well-known persons
of the present. Towne has written
one of the best novels of current
fiction.
The Children's Bible, translated and
arranged by Henry A. Sherman and
Charles Foster Kent. Charles Scrib
mer's Sons, New York City.
While the importance of the beauty
of Biblical language cannot be de
nied in forming impressions in the
minds of children, neither can it be
denied that the application neces
sary to comprehension is often a
strain which creates an aversion
In the youthful mind. The conti
nuity and the dignity of the Bible
are not such as to attract the aver
age young reader.
Of course, the whole Bible is not
In this one volume, which is printed
on heavy paper and in large type.
The co-authors have selected the
important passages to give the child
an idea of the constitution of Chris
tianity. These they have interpreted
into simple, straightforward Engllsn
and regrouped the verses into short
paragraphs, so that the story is told
in direct and easily understanaaDie
passages.
The volume is beautifully gotten
vp and has an abundance of illus
trations that are attractive and
valuable both in their color and
subject. It should help many a
child to absorb the message of the
Bible.'
Gifts of the Desert, by Randall Parrlsh.
A. C. McClurg & Co.. Chicago, 111.
The story is placed down on the
Mexican border, and follows the
type of the western story of ro
mance and adventure so popular in
current light fiction; a girl for
hero No. 1 and a redeemed or
misunderstood outlaw supporting
her in the cast. This time Deborah
Meredith is forced into a marriage
with a brutal, repugnant man, and
to escape him she takes to the
desert, where she meets a character
who turns out to be an outlaw. Of
course there is considerable gun
play, a lot of unwelcome love of
ferings and one offering of the
right sort on the last page. Villa's
men play a part and there - are
chases and pursuits, captures and
killings. These western stories, as
common as western - movies, are
rather hard on the west as she is
today.
The Wonder Book of Chemistry, by Jean
Henri Fabre. Translated from the
French by Florence Constance Blck
nell. The Century company. New York
City.
The simple device of inventing a
man, in this case Uncle Paul, to
explain in easy fashion to a pair
of young, attentive pupils the work
ings of a branch of science is re
sorted to in this volume, and with
good effect. Uncle Paul talks to
his two nephews about the wonders
of chemistry and explains to them,
bit by bit, how to understand and
apply it. The book is limited to in
organic chemistry.
The Social Trend, by Edward Alsworth
Ross. The Century company. New
York City.
Save for, or because he has, some
ideas of his own. Professor Ross
has written an interesting and
meritorious book. Whether his
opinions improve the book or
whether his keen observations make
it, is a matter of opinion on the
part of the reader. By nature a
where he experiences all kinds of
adventure and hairbreadth escapes.
His closeness to nature, the trials
he undergoes in his fight against
bleakness of mountains in winter
and the things he learns from his
trouble make him into a strong man
and liberate him from his weakness.
There is a splendid girl for him
in the end and there are several
good, red-blooded characters in the
story. "Northwest" is another out
door story, with plenty of fighting
and struggle all the way through.
It is not particularly mature and
will probably be more appreciated
by younger readers, and there is
nothing in the book to harm them.
introducing it. that the book "has
been the deliberate and organized
outgrowth of the common efforts of
like-minded men and women to see
the problem of modern American
civilization, as a whole, and to
illuminate by careful criticism the
special aspect of that civilization
with when the individual is most
famliar."
The essays on the SO subjects, and
their authors, are as follows: "The
City," Lewis Mumford; "Politics,"
H L. Mencken; "Journalism," John
Macy; "The Law," Zacharlah
Chafee Jr.; "Education," Robert
Morse Lovett; "Scholarship and
Criticism." J. E. Spingarin;- "School
and College Life," Clarence Britten
Thn Intellectual Life," Harold E.
Stearns; "Science," Robert H. Lowie
"P h i 1 o a o .p h y," Harold Chapman
Brown; "Literary Life," Van Wwck
Brooks: "Music," Deems Taylor
"Poetry," Conrad Aiken; "Art," Wal
ter Pach; "The Theater,' George
Jean Nathan; "Economic Opinion,"
Walton H. Hamilton; "Radicalism,'
George Soule; "The Small Town,'
Louis Raymond Reid; "History,'
H. W. Van Loon; "Sex," Elsie Clews
Parsons; "The Family," Katherine
Anthony; "The Alien," Frederick C.
Howe; "Racial Minorities," Geroid
T. Robinson; Advertising, J.
Thorne- Smith; "Business," Garet
Garrett; "Engineering," O. S. Beyer
Jr.; "Nerves," Alfred B. Kuttner
Medicine," anonymous; "Sport and
Play." Ring W. Lardner; "Humor,1
Frank M. Colby. In addition there
are three essays on American civil!
zation from the foreign point of
vley. The English, by Henry L.
Stuart: Irish,- Ernest Boyd, and
Italian by Raffaello Piccoli. .
Rogues Haven, by Roy Bridges. D. Ap-
pleton & Co., isew torn city.
Distinctly within the classifica
tion of adventure, yet with traces
of the romance novel and marks of
the mystery story. "Rogues' Haven'
is an entertainment book of the best
sort; a pure story without motive,
moral or discussion of problem. It
belongs to that school wherein
have ehined during past years such
books as "The Port of Missing
Men," "The' Daughter of Anderson
Crow" and "The Brass BowL"
For its kind it is exceedingly well
written, "full of action and excite
ment, suspense and pleasant de
nouements. The story concerns the
fight for recovery of a grandfather's
fortune against an avaricious uncle
whose dishonesty and unscrupulous
methods provide the plot of the
story. The. setting is the English
country and the characters live in
an age when coaches and fours
were the. mode of travel and braces
of pistols the mode of defense.
Rogues' Haven is the name of the
old estate bf Edward Craike, an
aged man whose past is covered
with mystery and whose surround
ings are covered with decay, while
his servants seem more like the
crew of a pirate ship than house
men of a peaceful old English man
sion. Here at Rogues' Haven takes
place the struggle for the unex
plained wealth of Edward Craike,
and also a love story that is pleas
ant in spite of the grimness of its
environment.
Talks to Mothers, by Lucy Wheelock.
The Houghton-Mifflin company, Bos
ton. Mass.
Lucy Wheelock has done a seem
ingly splendid thing in this com
pilation of writings concerning the
training of children and the guid
ance of parents in such a task. To
be exact, 39 every-day problems of
childhood are considered, with sug
gestions intended to make for the
children's mental, moral and physi
cal welfare.
How children develop tastes for
different things and how those
tastes should be encouraged or
cured is one phase which is dealt
with. The teachings for such things
as thrift and honesty, the curing
of such things as anger and habits
are explained in logical fashion and
in a semi-scientific practical way.
Civilization in the United States, an In
quiry by Thirty Americans. Harcourt,
Brace A Co., New York city.
It would be difficult within the
limited confines of a review to give
an adequate criticism of all that
this book contains, so far as real
review style is concerned. As a
matter of fact each of the 33 parts
of the book is a review, not of any
piece of literature, but of 33 dif
ferent aspects and phases of Ameri
can life.
The Inspiration to compile such a
volume is one entirely worthy. Har
old E. Stearns, the editor, says, in
1 Will fiii If wwwixr AvwWjra
Kimono, by John Paris. Boni & Liverignt,
New York city.
Read "Kimono" and then pick up
a book of Japanese poems or prose
translated and read from it. The
difference is protesque and incom
prehensible. While "Kimono" de
picts the ugly, the sordid and the,
squalid, the poem or prose will
breathe the beauty of the Japan
most persons have become acquaint
ed with through literature, or else
return home and tell that they have
seen it with their own eyes.
Mostly it is because John Paris
has sought out the other side to
carry his point; otherwise he would
have had a hard time writing his
hook, but it would have been be
coming to have given the bright
side a hearing. Then, too, there is
the bright side and the other side
in every land, and such a book could
be written about any country with
equal Justification, which is another
way of saying that Mr. Paris has
failed to Justify himself.
There Is apparent on almost every
unmoral as possible; and without the
grace of philosophy or the dignity
of intelligent discussion, Mr. Paris
criticizes the country and the race
because it falls below Christian
standards, without considering that
they have - the standards of a
philosophy and of a religion of their
own. While it is true that Japanese
life falls short of our own ideals,
yet it is Japanese and they have a
right to lead it as they will.
In the fact that Geoffrey Barring
ton, an Englishman, married Asako
Figinami, a girl of Japanese blood
but of European instincts and edu
cation, there is sufficient material
for a novel, for inter-racial mar
riage is a problem. In this regard
John- Paris has talked with com
parative Intelligence and he has set
forth the very natural complications
in his story which would follow
such a marriage. Certainly it Is
right to take a discouraging stand,
but the point would have been bet
ter carried, because it would have
seemed .less like propaganda, had
the ugliness been put into truer
proportion and some of the beauty j
admitted
page an eagerness to make Japan ! every way. He conducts his
and Japanese life as ugly and as father's business through a gigantic
crisis and then simply says he
doesn't care . for work and would
rather paint and sculp.
His life is overshadowed from the
start by a trick marriage. Here is
(.where Parker might be accused of
clumsiness, for this little sub-plot
is very thinly constructed and the
only excuse is that the author' still
has his story in front of him and is
so anxious to get to the real stuff
that he neglects careful construc
tion of his foundation. Few persons
would have been so simple as to
have fallen for the crude marriage
plot into which the boy is drawn
and CarnacGrier is certainly not of
such ilk.
This same carelessness of the
minor parts marks the entire book,
but the main story is well 'told and
well acted by cleverly construed
characters. For readers who are
concerned with pure entertainment
of the thrilly sort and not with
literary merit "Carnac's Folly" will
serve the purpose most admirably,
and it is a book that will be read
quite widely.
A Dana-liter of the Sands, by Frances
Everard. Dodd, Mead & Company,
New York City.
It is not likely that the lover of
pure romantic fiction made to oraer
will find & single fault with "A
Daughter of the Sands." A verit
able nath of romance is chiseled ou
of the mountain of reality and the
best sort of heroes and heroines,
vHllans and props pass through.
The unfaithful lover meets his just
desserts, the girl marries the man
she has saved from a terrible end
pure happiness is won by those who
deserve it and every one of the vn
iians get punished.
- For its kind the novel is extreme
ly well written and well arranged
It is thoroughly exciting Wth care
fully calculated suspense and an
abundance of sympathy correctly
directed and properly placed. The
setting is in northern Africa, with
description accurate and elaborate.
and colonial life clearly depicted.
Saada Medene is a girl whose
father is a shiekh who has lost his
money and forced her to earn her
own living. She is as beautiful .as
can he Tound in a year of beauty
contests, and in spite of the Arab
blood which is supposed to flow in
her veins she is beloved by and
betrothed to Lance Rallsford,
young consular officer in straight
ened circumstance.
Raflsford has no scrupples about
her Arab blood when he asks her
to maTry him and in the face of
strenuous objections resolves to
carry out his promise. He secures
a post in Africa which permits him
to marry and takes his fiance there
before the wedding. Enroute the
girl has an adventure in the native
quarter of a city and I saved by
a drug fiend who has given up the
fight. In turn she saves him and he
cures himself of his habit.
Raflsford inherits a large fortune.
At the same time he is snubbed by
all Englishmen for his intended
marriage to a lady of color, and an
hour after his marriage he deserts
his bride to return to England to
claim his inheritance. Saada in the
meantime has been told 'by her
father that she is of pure English
blood and an adopted daughter, but
She has not told her husband. Rails
ford repents of his own accord, but
d'es on his way back to Africa to
meet his bride. She, however, has
ceased to love him and marries the
man she saved.
Carnac's Kolly, by Gilbert Parker. The
J. B. Upplncott company, Philadel.
phia. Pa.
The struggles of men . with virgin
soil to reap the natural wealth
fights either against the soil itself
or with rival reapers, have been the
theme of many a good book, and
this new novel by Gilbert Parker is
another which comes within that
classification. Gilbert Parker has
built for himself a reputation with
his stories of the Canadian woods.
and while this new one will not
particularly strengthen it, neither
will it weaken it.
As a story it is extremely good,
with all the ingredients so vital to
rugid tales of rugid men in rugid
places, but the literary merit might
easily be questioned. John Grier is
the typical king of industry, whose
life is his work and whose work is
his life; his family and his home
being incidental necessities. He
has two sons, Fabian, a capable man
who turns against his father and
joins the rival lumber company, and
Carnac. This second son is able in
"Great stuff: the -whole, a notabln bonk nf its
kind. Nobody should miss it who enjoys what one
may can outdoor nction or tne first rank."
New Tork Tribune.
FLOWING GOLD
By
Rex Beach
The Tribune reviewer says further: "Mr. Beach has for
gotten nothing. He knew how to turn out a lively, colorful,
full-blooded story of frontier life: He had gusto, as if he
enjoyed writing; and he could: communicate it to his readers.
All these .gifts are still his, as evidenced by 'Flowing Gold.'
He has chosen the Texas oil fields for his scene, for the same
reason that made him years ago not only write of the Klon
dike, but go to the Klondike before he wrote at alii The
material suits his talent. It is both dramatic and realistic"
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Harper & Brothers Established 1817 New York
OLD BOOK STORB TO MOVE.
The laying of the corner stone of
Gill's new building, which will in
the future house Gill's old book
store, should arouse a certain
poignant feeling in the hearts of
book lovers. There is a fascina
tion about the old stand which is
truly bookish. Real book buyers
like to browse, and generally with
out molestation. Bookstores are to
be explored and current methods of
efficient salesmanship are somehow
amiss in the atmosphere. It is to
be hoped that the spirit of the old
store and also the spirit of the
sonnet of dedication written by
Charles Hanson Towne shall prevail
in the new shop. Mr. Towne's sonnet
follows:
This shall be more than any shop or
mart:
This is a shrine, a temple of the soul,
Where one may come to make his
spirit whole.
Drenching In dreams the passions of
his heart.
Here all the shadows of the earth depart.
With friendly folios for comrades
true;
Here Love and Beauty tell their tales
anew, 1
Gushing from pares of dlvinest art.
Here books shall breathe their wonder.
Tired men.
Sick with the clamor of the world
may come,
Finding- release from pandemonium.
And the old silences and peace again.
Here poets shall whieper, day on rushing-
day.
In the old beautiful eternal way.
THEr LITERARY .-PERISCOPE'
"B
BY JBXNETTE KENNEDY.
Assistant in Circulation Department,
Public Library.
LOOD AND SAND." Blasco
Ibanez's famous novel with
a toreador as the central
figure, was considered by W. D.
Howells "a complete exposition of
every phase of Spain's national sport when ideas give out.'
of bull fighting," say the publishers,
E. C. Dutton & Co., who have pub
lished many of the translations of
Ibanez's novels.
book "The Mistakes of the Kaiser,"
now being written.
"Dear Mix Gale." wrote a rlub
woman to the author of "Mies Lulu
Bett," "I have to write a paper for
our club. I heard you wrote a story
on civics. Will you please send it
to me? I want to use it for padding
XJttle Women, by Louisa M. Alcott.
(Popular illustrated edition.) Little,
Browne & Co.
This is a. new edition of this
classic for girls and on a slightly
more magnificent scale than pre
vious editions. It is . beautifully
illustrated in color by Jessie Wilcox
Smith, and quite well turned out as
to style.
The Sahara Bumhard School.
Sir: It ismy opinion that The
Sheik, Desert Love, and other novels
about the Twin Bedouins and Oster-
moors should be bound in Morocco
and kept there. Dove Dulcet in
the New York Evening Post.
Into his latest
novel, On Tiptoe:
A Romance of
the Redwoods,
Stewart Edward
White has put the
profound beauty
of the untravelled
forests lying along
our Pacific Coast.
Mystery and adven
ture, a keen plot and
an unusual knowl
edge of Nature's ways
make this story re
freshingly different.
ON TIPTOE
It is said. that Lord Northoliffe's
career furnished the inspiration fo
W. L. George's novel "Caliban,"
published several years ago.
.
Tom Masson, the humorist, says of
William Van Loon's admirable
"Story of Mankind": "It is a perfect
illustration of the value of genuine
humor when mixed in the right pro
portions with g-eniline knowledge."
e
In the introduction to Stephea
Leacock'a "My Discovery of Eng
land," the editor of Punch. Sir Owen
Seaman, says: "English and Ameri
can humorists have not always seen
eye to eye. When we fail to appre
ciate their humor they say we are
too dull and effete to understand it:
and when they do not appreciate
ours they say we haven't any."
'A Russian writer who has been
described as "the real reigning
prince of Russian fiction," is Alexis
Remizov. "The Noises of the Town,"
a collection of short stories written
In St. Petersburg since 1917. is said
"to be very representative of his
work. Prince Mirski says of him in
the Contemporary Review: "Hla vo
cabulary is the largest, I think, in
all Russian literature. . . . He
excels in bringing out the intrinsic
human dignity of the most vulga
and lowest creatures, whom he rep
roaenus in all the glory of taeir
firth with inimitable humor, at once
whimsical and poignant and then
suddenly puts them face to face
with the greatest ordeals of life."
As a reply to the "Memoirs of the
Former Kaiser," France's war pre
mier, Vlviani. will soon pnbllRh his
A new French book which is In
tended for commercial use, is Pro
fessor R. Lus-um's "French Com
mercial Terms and Phrases." This
work, now in preas, contains more
than 6000 terms and phrases alpha
betically arranged, with special at
tention given to idiomatic uses,
eve
"The public taste, artistically,"
says Remy de Gourmont. "is always
60 years behind the times.1 On that
computation we are Just appreciat
ing artistic events that should have
been "on schedule" during recon
struction days after the civil war.
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"Dethronements" Is the significant
title Mr. Laurence Kousman has)
chosen' for his coming volume of
three plays, each depicting a notable
political figure at the finish of his
career; Joseph Chamberlain, Charles
Stewart Parnell and Woodrow Wil
son are characters chosen.
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The Hispanic Society of America
has purchased the entire set of
original . illustrations by Ernest
Pelxotto, which are a feature of his
new travel book, "Spain and Por
tugal." e e e
"H. J. M." in an attempt to
analyze the "hold which Mr. Hutch
inson won over an astounding large
public in "If Winter Comes." sums
it up with conviction in the end. He
says: "And I say I know why Mr.
Hutchinson exalts and wrings hun
dreds of thousands of heart. It is
his dear, delicious, incomparable,
quaint, extravagant, winning, eager,
kind and kittenish manner. He goes
on, "and you Just atare, with damp
but kindling eyes."
Stephen Graham's "Tramping
With a Poet in the Rockies." an
account of a roughing trip taken
with Vsohel Lindsay. Is appraised In
an amusing but sincere way by
"Punch." whlrh says In part, "The
wanderings of these two Inspired
lunatic. Lindsay making the welkin
ring with odd verse, and his com
panion loving everybody from bears
to Dukhobors. are a thoroughly di
verting business. One reads, indeed,
with a spasm of envy, and rret
that one allows oneself to be mn tlrrt
to hot shaving-water and all that It
implies."
BREAD UNIT OF VALUE
Staff of Life Mandsrtl for Both
Wages and ;mmIh.
Colin Ross in Vosalsrhe Zeltung
(Berlin).
My little Russian teacher tin
Kiev) is a young German woman of
Russian birth very reserved and
taciturn. When I asked her what
I ought to pay her for a lesson, she
looked embarrassed for a moment,
and then said that when I had been
long enough in the country. 1 would
understand her terms. They wero
a pound of bread sn hour.
In fact, except In wholesale trans
actions, a pound of bread is the
unit of value for both wages and
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839 Thoreau the Man
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52 Voltaire. Victor
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186 How I Wrote "The
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48 Bacon's Essays.
56 Wisdom
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106 Aphorisms. Geo.
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197 Witticisms and Re
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115 Proverbs of Japan.
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284 Poems of Robert
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82 Poe's Poems.
14 Michael Angelo'l
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146 Snowbound: Pled
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68 flhakespeare's Son
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222 The Vampire and
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108 How to Develop a
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62 Schopenhauer's
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58 Insects and Men:
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