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...country. His choice left him free to write a letter home in which he described glowingly the country he had reached. His father, mother, six assorted brothers, sisters, set out to reach his side. When Henry Clay was making a vain but practised compromise with Death, and John Calhoun had roared his last, Peter Cooper, builder of the first U. S. locomotive, had a Steinway piano...
...deplore that Blease [Coleman E. Blease, Senator from South Carolina] sits in the seat of Calhoun, is it not quite as great evidence of a lowering of standards that Butler [William M. Butler, Senator from Massachusetts] rattles around in the seat of Daniel Webster? There is this to be said about Blease's election. He appealed to the people, and having made him, they may unmake him if they choose...
...Adolf B. Bronson- The American-Scandinavian Foundation ($2.00). In roaring, lynching, razzle-dazzle, hell-for-leather '49, when men went mad for gold in California, when Longfellow wrote poetry in Cambridge and carpenters got 16 dollars a day; when Choctaw Indians came to Christ and dying John Calhoun, his eyes like fetch candles, stood up to speak in the U. S. Senate, there came to these shores a middle-aged Swedish spinster who had written novels. Her friend Hawthorne said that she was worthy of being the maiden aunt of the whole human race; at all events her name...
GOIN' ON FOURTEEN-Irvin S. Cobb- Doran ($2.50). John C. Calhoun Custer had his 13th birthday the day before the first page of this book. He is spiritual brother to "Penrod," to "Huck Finn," to "Tom Bailey," to all the other naughty urchins whose pranks bring reminiscent lumps to shriveled throats. The story-or series of stories-is true to form. There are adventures with dogs and cats, a treasure-hunting expedition, the inevitable circus, a running away from home. There is tragedy when the village bad boy dies to rescue a contemporary from drowning. The book is like...
...cannot see the history one studied in childhood magnificently recreated in the stately personages of Calhoun, Clay, Webster, John Quincy Adams and Dolly Madison without delight. So dextrous was the play in setting, character and costume that it stirred unmistakable delight throughout the audience. If the play's incident was mild, its brilliant qualities of pageantry more than erased the difference...