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Professor Osterhout, who is one of the foremost authorities in the country on plant life, has written several books on this subject. His best known works are "Experiments with Plants", published in 1905, and the "Nature of Life", which was printed for the first time last year. The author is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an honorary member of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, Scotland, and of numerous other scientific societies. During the first half of last year, Professor Osterhout was absent from the University, during which time he conducted...
...Author was born to her subject, the daughter of a Worcester, Mass., judge. Like Novelist Anne Parrish (The Perennial Bachelor), she thumbed Godey Books in her nursery. She traveled in Europe and roamed as far as the University of Wisconsin for her education. During the War she farmeretted in Virginia. But Boston reclaimed her as a literary lady in the Houghton, Mifflin Co., where warm friends now thank fortune that her maiden novel is no hail-and-farewell. She married Albert Hoskins of Philadelphia last January, but with no Lancian translation of hymen vincit omnia. On the contrary, Husband Hoskins...
MAPE, THE WORLD OF ILLUSION- Andre Maurois-Appleton ($2.50). Enchanting as the world of illusion may be, it becomes tedious when created or interpreted by colorless characters. The author of Ariel (that rare book) has here expended his remarkable power of lucid biographical romancing upon two fruitless subjects out of the three chosen. The power remains admirable, but the reading palls. The young Goethe's windy sentimentality for Charlotte Buff is shown translating itself into that sweet and sticky opus, The Sorrows of the Young Werther. Other chapters demonstrate the dull phenomenon of Mrs. Siddons, a British beauty with...
...those Harvard men who have lot yet perused "The Harvard Mother Goose. All Undergraduate Parody," as well as for the public at large, the WBZ Radio Station will broadcast tonight at 10.30 a reading of this latest collegiate wit. Frederick deWolf Pingree, ocC.. of Brookline, the author of the book, will recate his satirical verses and be accompanied by Mr. Clair Leonard, Harvard instructor and planist, whose ability for extempore musical composition has already been demonstrated to the radio public. Mr. Leonard will play humorous improvisations of the Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes music which is regarded as the classic...
...Curse for the Saxaphone" will mysteriously appeal to their aesthetic tastes as well as amuse and stir them. On the surface, there are few signs that there is any aesthetic content there. The best things in this book are as shapeless as the mountains that obsess their author. There is either a tremendous and subtle artistry in this seeming shapelessness or else Mr. Lindsay is gifted with a rare instinct for the proper thing to do, an instinct so profound that he does not comprehend it himself or even realize that it is there...