Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unique copies only, while the total number of known copies of any single volume in no case exceeds 40. Hitherto the Harvard Library has owned only three of them. Apart from their scarcity, these editions derive their chief value from the fact that they are contemporary with the author himself, while the famous First Folio was published after his death. The text of the Quartos is not always accurate, but it contains the most curious and suggestive differences from the Folio texts and is of great value to scholars...
...Author. Author Norris,* unerring caterer to the adolescent mind, has written 26 other novels, most of them successful, most of them sentimental, one or two of them distinguished...
...Author George Ade of Indiana...
Died. Charles Edward Montague, 61, satirical author (Disenchantment, Right off the Map, etc.), for a quarter century chief editorial writer of the Manchester Guardian; of pneumonia; in Manchester, England. At the outbreak of the War he dyed his greying hair, understated his age to enlistment officers, later fought in front line trenches and was cited three times for bravery...
...husband, Charles G. Norris, is a writer of note (Bread, Salt, etc.). Last week her son, 16-year-old Frank Norris, 2nd, namesake of Author-uncle Frank Norris (McTeague), student at Tamalpais School, San Rafael, Calif., won first prize in a special essay contest conducted by the Brooks-Bright Foundation. The subject of Son Norris's essay: The effect of the growth of population and diminishing food supply on future relations between the U. S. and Great Britain and their relations to other nations. The contest he won was among schools not members of the Foundation...