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The "Bluebell and Primrose," as its passengers fondly called it, was just the kind of road that progress passes by. London was only 50 miles to the northwest, but no factory chimneys thrust their way above the quiet countryside to give the railway a new excuse for existence. Soon a...
Both the fund of knowledge and vocabulary of the author are redolent of the woods, the swamps, and the plantation. Many chapters are titled with place-names, "Spaniard's Grave," "Millway Run," "The Copse," "The Ridge," "Sweetgum Spinney," "The Savannah," The hounds are catalogued, the author finding in the music...
The Spectator nominates a Worst Book of the Month: Chaucer, by G. K. Chesterton; inaugurates an English Men of Letters Series by reprinting from the London Daily Mail an advertisement written by D. B. Wyndham Lewis. Excerpt: ''Every time a fairy sneezes, a new Lyons' Swiss Roll...
Lawson Lifter, promoter and magnate of Chicago,R. S. Richey '08 May Lifter, his daughter, R. D. Murphy '08 Annie Lifter, another daughter, C, N. Eaton '08 James Christopher Lovewater, missionary to Japan, E. H. Baker '06 Admiral Ihavben A. Bumskivitch, of the Russian battleship Sinkavitsky, F. H. Whitney '06...