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...London 3.00 Eagle Hotel, Concord 2.00 Eagle Mountain House, Jackson 4.50 The Elms, Goffs Falls 3.50 The Emerson Inn, Intervale 4.00 Fosscroft, Intervale 4.00 Exeter Inn, Exeter 3.50 Fisscroft, Intervale 4.00 Glen House, Gorham 3.50 Hanover Inn, Hanover 4.00 The Hawthorne, Jackson 3.50 Headlands, Intervale 3.00 Hotel Howard, Bartlett 3.50 Jackson Ski Club, Jackson 5.00 Kearsage Hall, North Conway 3.50 Kearsage Hotel, Portsmouth 1.50 Laconia Tavern, Laconia 1.50 Lancaster Inn, Lancaster 4.00 Lebanon Inn, Lebanon 1.50 Lee's Hotel, Littleton 3.50 Lincoln Hotel, Lincoln 4.00 McKenzies, Franconia 5.00 Mount Belknap Hotel, Lakeport 1.50 Mount Madison House, Gorham 4.00 Mount Prospect...
...London 3.00 Eagle Hotel, Concord 2.00 Eagle Mountain House, Jackson 4.50 The Elms, Goffs Falls 3.50 The Emerson Inn, Intervale 4.00 Fosscroft, Intervale 4.00 Exeter Inn, Exeter 3.50 Fisscroft, Intervale 4.00 Glen House, Gorham 3.50 Hanover Inn, Hanover 4.00 The Hawthorne, Jackson 3.50 Headlands, Intervale 3.00 Hotel Howard, Bartlett 3.50 Jackson Ski Club, Jackson 5.00 Kearsage Hall, North Conway 3.50 Kearsage Hotel, Portsmouth 1.50 Laconia Tavern, Laconia 1.50 Lancaster Inn, Lancaster 4.00 Lebanon Inn, Lebanon 1.50 Lee's Hotel, Littleton 3.50 Lincoln Hotel, Lincoln 4.00 McKenzies, Franconia 5.00 Mount Bolknap Hotel, Lakeport 1.50 Mount Madison House, Gorham 4.00 Mount Prospect...
...BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS - Edited by Christopher Morley & Louella D. Everett-Little, Brown...
...Trojan Horse seemed likely to bewilder more readers than it pleased, another Christopher Morley revision of a classic. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, gave free play to his quotation-loving mind, resulted in a fat, handsome volume that was interesting reading, valuable for reference. The first Bartlett's was published in 1855, when Josiah Bartlett, then a Cambridge, Mass, bookseller, brought out his personal collection of apt phrases to show "the obligations our language owes to various authors for ... familiar quotations which have become 'household words.' " By 1891 Bartlett had published nine revisions; the tenth appeared...
...their national debt"). Generous to his colleagues on The Saturday Review of Literature, he gives two pages to William Rose Benet, almost three pages to Stephen Vincent Benet, a half-page each to Editor Bernard De Voto and ex-Editor Henry Seidel Canby, a page to himself. The Morley Bartlett includes enough contemporary wisecracks. ephemeral fragments of minor living poets, to make other future revisions seem likely, but it shows that a few moderns (Thomas Mann, Bernard Shaw, Henry Adams) are as quotable as the giants of the past...