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Many secondhand books can be picked up in the Square from the second hand book sellers. Other volumes have to be bought new at the Coop. If you have a good encyclopedia in your room at home, it would be well worth while to bring that along for reference...
...Encyclopedia Britannica...
Such facts as these and a myriad more were last week offered to voyagers through the publication of a top-notch little nautical encyclopedia called Ships and the Sea, A Cruising Companion, written by Pay Lieutenant E. C. Talbot-Booth of the Royal Naval Reserve.* A fat little book, it has 750 pages, over 1,000 illustrations. Though compiled from a British point of view, it is international in scope, universal in interest...
...going to take the cure at Fiuggi, drinking its famed waters. Popes with gallstones gave the springs of Fiuggi their fame and today its bottled waters may be had in almost any city of the world. Last week learned Italians, sympathizing with their great Marshal, turned to the Italian encyclopedia, scanned the famous letter in which great Artist Michelangelo described how he was cured at Fiuggi in the year 1549 as Marshal Badoglio may well be cured. Wrote Michelangelo: "I am immensely better. For about two months I have been drinking morning and evening water from a spring about forty...
That scholar was Harry Thurston Peck, famed as a classicist, as an editor (The Bookman, The International Encyclopedia), as a fractiously brilliant historian whose Twenty Years of the Republic inspired Mark Sullivan's contemporary Our Times. Professor Peck's wit and flowering waistcoats had excited a full generation of students when, in the summer of 1910, he wrote a bundle of impetuous letters to an obscure stenographer named Esther Quinn. Esther Quinn sued him sensationally for breach of promise. He was deserted by his wife and friends, espelled from his clubs, finally dismissed from his Columbia professorship...