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...latest methods of magnetism and hypnotism. Through the course of the action horror creeps nearer and nearer. Spirits summon a man bound in a trance. The whole interest of this shuddery tale lies in the culminating horror. It does not take rank with the best work of Algernon Blackwood. But it has all the necessary substance of a very exciting horror story...
...Edgar Algernon Robert Cecil was born on Sept. 14, 1864, and grew up like any ordinary boy, but in the historic environment of Hatfield House, country seat of the Cecils. He was educated at Eton, and later migrated to Oxford, where he entered University College. Even when within the precincts of England's oldest university he took a lively interest in politics, and since his college days his whole life has been devoted to his country; for, as A. L. Kennedy wrote of his father, Lord Salisbury, he was " born of a class which habitually thinks of the interests...
...Algernon David Black of New York...
Some of the "big" names appearing on the prospectuses of large distilling and brewing concerns: Field Marshal Earl Haig, connected with the firm of Haig & Haig; Lord Dewar, director of John Dewar & Co.; Viscount Iveagh, with whom are connected his sons, Captain Lord Elveden, Commander Sir Algernon Guinness, and Colonel the Hon. Walter Guinness, head of the great brewing firm...
...Algernon Coolidge...