Word: bookes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this position is to be accepted, what of the colleges whose enrolment is only equal to or less than that of West Point, but who take on larger colleges without demanding any such concession? The figures given below are taken from the Chicago Daily News Year Book of 1926, but are approximate of this year's strength. With due allowance that certain of these colleges include in their totals the noneligible co-eds and graduate students, the revised figures do not materially affect the situation...
...section of Paris. Amused at her facial mobility, a few painters sketched her; she showed the results to her friend Galleryman Joseph Brummer. He became enthusiastic, told her to get a dozen or so and he would exhibit them. The Editions des Quatre Chemins of Paris has issued a book of reproductions of the portraits...
Dikran Kouyoumdjian is the hero of the first story in this book. Dikran Kouyoumdjian is Author Michael Arlen's real name. But he warns us that all the characters in these stories are fictitious?he, too; his defense being that "historians have familiarized us with the truth that the past is a proper field for the imagination...
...more violent critics claim that Author Cabell's embroidered style serves to conceal a vacuum. They will therefore not be much interested to learn that in his latest book he announces what would seem to be his retirement: ". . . The Way of Ecben has appeared to its writer a thesis wholly fit to commemorate my graduation from, and my eternal leave-taking of, the younger generation, alike in life and in letters." One may expect nothing, he reasons, from a man of 50. The cryptogams of The Way of Ecben tell the same old Cabell story of man's vain pursuit...
...most recent volume to be prepared by the John Barnard Associates, the autobiography of Walter Crane, is again an artistic effort representative of the excellent taste and good judgement of this group of Harvard bibliophiles. The facsimile of the Shelley Note Book which they announced several weeks ago, represents another work which is one of the most notable contributions for the aid of English scholars in recent years...