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LADY SUFFOLK AND HER CIRCLE-Lewis Melville - Houghton Mifflin' ($5.00). The light which this book diffuses on the dark ages of the early Georges shines like a beacon upon a dismal barren island. Lady Suffolk, Mistress of George II, is the lady of the lamp. In 40 letters upon which the author has based his work, she gives some choice sidelights on the social life of the time; and the author in his turn has been able to embellish them with many an observation drawn from his immense knowledge of the period. The reader learns that George...
...Eternal City, the Bulgarian Monarch will travel to Paris, where is a fair sprinkling of comely princesses from the exiled houses of dethroned sovereigns. But, allegedly, he is not interested in the daughters of crownless heads. So will he depart to England, which for him will be a barren land...
...Said Barren's Weekly: "It is curious, but strictly true, that investors seldom clearly differentiate between stocks and bonds. The difference is vital. The bondholder is a creditor and the bond is, therefore, a debt to him. Stock is an evidence of partnership, with no debtor or creditor relations whatever...
...aside as Education Week; teachers are urged to impress upon their pupils minds the undesirability of certain kinds of citizens. The bogy of the constitution-destroyer is to be popped out before the terrified school-children. The were-wolf of radicalism will be made to howl again across the barren steppes of the American desert. The generation at school will learn by rote that the penalty of thinking further or faster than their sainted ancestors is "death, destruction, poverty, starvation, disease, and anarchy." George Washington, himself a radical and revolutionist, will be summoned from his grave to defend the constitutional...
...Nome, Alaska, the actual distance to the North Pole would be comparatively small and either vessel could fly there and back in 72 hours. But terrible dangers would be involved The dirigible would be deprived of all weather reports, and might meet wild and unexpected gales in the barren North. The terrible cold of Arctic regions, enhanced by altitude, would tax the endurance of the crew to the utmost, and extreme precautions would be necessary to prevent freezing of radiators and engines. A forced landing in the frozen wilds would mean certain death. Success would have little value. Fleeting observations...