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The Biographer. J. Lewis May was born in London (1873) and lives there, but his family still consider themselves natives of Devonshire. After a number of years in France he became literary advisor and reader for Publishers John Lane and Elkin Mathews; was made general editor of Lane's English...
INFIDELS AND HERETICS, An Agnostic's Anthology-Clarence Darrow & Wallace Rice-Stratford ($3). "Agnostic" in the title is used broadly enough so that all tones from the lightest treble of skepticism to the deepest bass of atheism are to be found in this collection of short thoughts. Some of...
Died. William Durland, 81, oldtime Manhattan riding master, in Manhattan. On his horses had ridden many a U. S. President, many a Vanderbilt, Gould, Belmont, Ryan. In a lawsuit, Mr. Durland was once voluntarily defended by the late Senator Roscoe Conkling of New York and the late Robert Green ("Fighting...
Subscriber Brandon's impressions are entirely incorrect. Many a Jew, many a Protestant, at least one Agnostic, many a Social Registerite belongs to Tammany, of which Members Horatio Seymour (1868), Samuel J. Tilden (1876) ran for President on the Democratic ticket.-ED.
Died. Mrs. Walston Hill Brown, famed suffragist, director of Illinois House, hospital in which over 20,000 World War veterans were treated, daughter of the late Robert G. Ingersoll, famed agnostic; in Riverside, Conn.