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...organ of the Prohibition Party, reached a circulation of 700,000 in the campaign [Cleveland vs. Harrison vs. Fisk (Pro.)] of 1888. The firm became Funk & Wagnalls Co. in 1891, having established the Literary Digest in 1889. Beside the bulky, bound volumes of that weekly, which constitute an exhaustive compendium of the press opinions of the world on all public questions in the last three decades, the partners have been responsible for The Jewish Encyclopedia (12 vols., 1901-06), Schaff-Hertzog's Encyclopedia of Re ligious Knowledge, Hoyt's Cyclopedia of Quotations, Cyclopedia of Classified Dates and other monumental works...
...novel exhibits all the earmarks of modern realistic school: the conversation is a compendium of all possible atrocities on the English language, the women are fouler-mouthed than the men, and of course there is not an attractive character from cover to cover The only note in the book is the monotone on the morhid, while as a substitute for rational analysis of the mind, Mr. Sergel, in typical post-impressionistic torpor, prefers the less exacting formula of adjectives . . . and . . . dots...
...prelude to the announcement of a great literary and artistic event. A. N. Marquis Co. of Chicago, publishers of Who's Who In America, "after more than five years of unremitting labor and the most painstaking research"-are about to publish First Families of America - the Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy. To those who are interested in genealogy (and to those who are not) this book will undoubtedly render a great service. If it cannot tell people where they are going, at least it will tell where they came from. It will be the best possible hand book...
...Compendium of all That Can Be Said Against the United States...
...surprising as his thoughts on other subjects of equal significance. The first amazing feature is that he includes no history of the world. He puts down Aristotle's "History of Animals", and Darwin's "Origin of the Species"; was it professional modesty that prevented the inclusion of his own compendium...