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...editor of the Manhattan Social Register marked for deletion from that compendium last week the name of Mr. McEvers Bayard Brown, a descendant of the 16th mayor of New York, Nicholas Bayard. Death had brought to an end the career of perhaps the only man who ever lived on a seagoing yacht for 36 years, with steam up day and night, yet never sailed away...
Writing in the first flush of excitement, a reporter apparently can secure effects comparable to these of Poe's compendium of sudden death. Thus crime presents an attractive exterior quite concealing the sordidness beneath...
...Paul, Minnesota capital, has a newspaper, The St. Paul Pioneer Press. It is the usual stodgy and amorphous compendium of local accidents, arrests, entertainments, boiler-plate hokus-pokus from New York, syndicated national news service. Like the papers of other middle-sized middle-western cities, The St. Paul Pioneer Press functions, apparently, on the assumption that few events that happen in Europe are important enough to be told to the people of St. Paul...
...beyond what they can find in official University publications. The Bulletin, however, when it criticizes the estimate of courses as "the unsupported say so of an undergraduate editor", has failed to grasp the spirit in which the Guide was published. The CRIMSON did not have in mind the voluminous compendium of advice which the Bulletin recommends for the future. To quote from the introduction to the Guide in the CRIMSON of September 28: "Each opinion printed is the honest reaction of an individual of normal intelligence to a particular subject and its manner of presentation. It pretends to nothing else...
...COMPLETE LIMERICK BOOK- Langford Reed-Putnam ($2.50). In a spirit of scholarly dignity appropriate to so solemn an undertaking, Mr. Reed, himself no idle Limericist, has prepared the compendium that was so sorely needed to preserve, immortal and immaculate, to a pure-minded posterity, all the old men of Tobago, Havana, Copenhagen and Siberia; all the nymphs of Birmingham, Nantucket, Joppa, Australia, Bangor and Iquique. Mr. Reed shows quite clearly, despite the dissenting opinions of the Messrs. Bernard Shaw, Arnold Bennett and Commissioner Booth-Tucker of the Salvation Army, that the best Limericks have never, at any time, depended...