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...faithful reader of The Weekly Tribune founded by Editor Horace Greeley. Years after he left New York state and moved across the Atlantic to settle in Tinglev, Schleswig, the Danish mechanic remembered the great U. S. editor. When he begat a son in Tinglev, he named the man-child???today chief of the German delegation in Paris?Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht. The onetime plowboy was. of course, General Electric's Owen D. Young, chief negotiant for the U. S. in Paris, chairman of the Second Dawes Committee...
Nineteenth Century. Victoria's cream-colored ponies trotted up the avenue with a command for Orlando to dine; Lady Palmerston and Mrs. Gladstone left cards, but bored Orlando withdrew to the woods with her lover. True, she solemnly married him and bore her first child???but such was the irresistible convention of the crinoline...
...ELSIE AND THE CHILD???Arnold Bennett? Doran...
...PRESBYTERIAN CHILD???Joseph Hergesheimer?Knopf ($10.00). The book comes in a black box labeled in old rose. Its gorgeous binding is wrapped in oil paper. It contains 66 pages, of which 21 are blank. It is about the author's youth, and is signed by the author. Only 950 copies are supposed to exist. The few printed pages describe Mr. Hergesheimer's Calvinistic grandsires, his Calvinistic upbringing, and what he believes to have been his escape from Calvinism. Said Elmer Davis, critic: "As the first 10,000 words of a full-length autobiography, to sell at $2, it would deserve...
...course," said Janicot reflectively, "if there should be no child?...