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...writing reflects the true instinct and feeling of a born naturalist, and he has long been accepted as the peer of men like Ernest Thompson Seton and the late Jack London. Acclaim has come not only from naturalists but??? much more important?from hosts of readers who know what's what about storytelling. That celebrated field naturalist, Director William T. Hornaday of the New York Zoological Park, has paid tribute to Mr. Hawkes' "marvelous fidelity" in describing the sunlit world he knew so briefly and in supplementing (as all good nature writing must be supplemented) with lore from trappers, hunters...
...There is a good deal of misapprehension in this country as to what you were convicted of. [Referring to M. Caillaux's conviction and exile but recently ended for defeatism during the War.] We know it was not treason, but?...
...infants are smoked, canned, sold as sardines. Its younger set, coming shoreward for the first time to spawn, are caught as whitebait. The largest, known as "herring king," is named shad. He is dark blue above, white beneath and carries as much as ten pounds of most delectable flesh. But???and this is the fact Mr. Hoover will emphasize?37,000,000 less pounds of shad were caught last year by fishermen than were caught 30 years ago. That is a decrease of 75%, with the result that, today, shad on the table is positively dear...
Results. All the results of the Republican action cannot be anticipated but???during the present session, the Republicans will at no time have a majority. There are 42 Democrats, plus 2 Farmer Laborites, plus 4 expelled insurgents: equals 48 or exactly one half of the body. Because there is one vacancy (caused by the death of Senator Brandegee of Connecticut), the Republicans have only 47 so-called regular members. Among these is Norris, who may as well be counted with the expelled insurgents, and other progressives who will not always be found with the regulars. Connecticut will hold a special...
...seem ungracious to clamor like this, in a publishing season that has already produced so many worthy novels. But???we wonder just what would happen if one of the younger or youngest generation worked in a steel mill for a couple of years before he wrote his next novel. It might be the Great American Novel after...