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Floyd Dell, whose Moon-Calf and The Briary Bush were ranked high by many critics among contemporary realistic novels, has finished a new story. It will be called Janet March and will be published in the autumn. Meanwhile, at Croton-on-Hudson he is attempting to play tennis and to educate his young son Anthony Dell, who, if he has not already commenced to talk, will do so very soon...
...house and the many happenings within it?the story of how a family fought for generations to preserve the outward respectability of its home, only to have it flooded by the onrush of the water which destroyed towns and valleys and hills at the birth of the great Croton water system above New York City. It is the romance of this great engineering feat that led Mr. Hughes to make it the focal point of his novel. Flooded towns, broken walls, rushing waters! What a movie...
...Croton, Ellis, D. Harris, Mathieu, C. H. Miller, O'Brien, M. C. Rand...
Anglinn, Edward G.; Art Club, President; Brush, Frank; Brocton, W. A.; Baker, George Buchun; Bunage, Paul; Cannan, Edward; Castis, Vandeveer; Chapin, Mr.; Chase, Charles E.; Childs, H. H. (2); Collier, R. J.; Croton Club; President; Dickson, E.; Dickson, F. C.; Daniels, Francis; Edmonds, W.; Gallaway, T. W.; Gilpin, Vincent; Graham, Edward Howland; Green, Waich; Groban, Andrew W.; Hanford, C. W.; Kommpe, K. H.; Mainere, G.; Mills, Mountford; Sands, P.; Schuckmann, Herm. Stud. Fr.; Sherburne, K.; Skeek, Lynn C.; Sullivan, J. H.; Willard, Nelson W. (3); Williams, David C; Williams, Edward...
Pythagoras, born at Samos about 584 B. C., founded a school of philosophy at Croton, Italy. The most important doctrine of this famous school was the transmigration of souls. It is not probable that Pythagoras brought this doctrine from Egypt. The theory of the fundamental essence of number was another characteristic teaching of this school. Pythagoras thought that nothing in nature could be conceived or understood without numbers...