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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engaged. Miss Katrina van Dyke, daughter of famed Professor Henry van Dyke of Princeton, author, uplifter, optimist, onetime U. S. Minister to the Netherlands and Luxemburg (1913-17); to one Murray Peabody Brush Jr., son of the onetime Dean of the College at Johns Hopkins University...
...Author. Among all the 96 counties of Tennessee there is no Lane County. But there is Wayne County in the south-central part, and there Thomas Sigismund Stribling was born in the reversible year of 1881. Preternaturally indolent and talkative, he successfully resisted his father's efforts to make a storekeeper or lawyer out of him. He wrote incessantly. His failure to sell anything was just as incessant, until he caught the knack of turning out moral tales for a Sunday school magazine. These, turned off at the rate of seven a day, permitted him to live...
Only three pieces of Japanese fiction earlier than Lady Murasaki's survive. Hers, written about 1000 A. D., is remarkable for the introduction of character interest, real invention and "a beauty of actual diction unsurpassed by any long novel in the world." It is known of the author that she served as a lady in waiting in a family that possessed a copy of the so-called Gossamer Diary, a long, romantic account of private joys and sorrows written by a mistress whose lord preserved it after her death. This diary was doubtless the structural model for Genji. Publication...
Where indeed? Author Bakeless, scanning well the entire globe, presents a dispassionate exposition of the expansion problems of Japan, Italy and Germany, etc., which deserves cogitation. Will or will not the 300-odd humans on every square mile of German and Italian soil inevitably expand into the relative vacuum represented by France with only 184 human atoms per square mile? When the fighting Japanese atoms finally burst from Nippon, will they erupt by sea or land? If by land, into Russia or China? If by sea, into Australia of the U. S.? With what chances of success...
...Since Author Bakeless presents facts supported by an imposing bibliographical reference list, and since his style is engagingly candid and modest, the dullest reader cannot but take bit after bit of fact in his teeth and go galloping off to all sorts of stimulating thought hurdles...