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...been released I would have killed every Englishman I could. Another great Sepoy mutiny is near. In the villages of India preparations for a mighty revolution are already in progress." The Sepoy (Indian soldiers) mutiny of 1857 was put down only after 100,000 Indians had been killed...
...seldom that an Englishman even a naturalized Englishman, deigns to compliment Americans, especially on intellectual matters, that Michael Arlen's announcement to the effect that Americans are more avid readers than the English is almost in the nature of a departure from national policy. The novelist goes further and implies that the American reading public mingles with its intellectualism an element of philanthropy, in that its cultural activities serve to prevent the death from malnutrition of many British litterateurs...
...Author. Henry Baerlein was born in Manchester, England, on April Fool's Day 55 years ago. A traveler by inclination, he knows especially well the Near East, Mexico, Spain, the republics of Central Europe. Credited with knowing more about Czechoslovakia than any other living Englishman, he has written several other books about it. Baerlein's travels have been largely "calm and peaceful," except in Mexico (where he collided with Yucatan authorities), Albania (where his linguistic excellence got him suspected as a Yugoslav spy, and where a man in Durazzo is still waiting to kill him). Other books...
...Amazon. In 1912 rubber exports from Brazil were second only to coffee, consisted of 43,000 tons with a value of $78,000,000. Brazil seemed entering a new era of prosperity; great public works were begun. But never again was 1912 equalled in Brazil. For in 1876 an Englishman, Sir Henry Wickham, had taken some rubber seeds to London, thence sent them to Ceylon. And by 1900 the Far East had exported four tons of rubber; in 1910, 8,000 tons. In 1913 the Far East, producing rubber on plantations, exported more than Brazil. Since then increased competition...
...WOMAN WITH WHITE EYES-Mary Borden-Doubleday, Doran ($2).* Authoress Mary Borden, U. S.born, has lived many years in Europe. Like her heroine she married an Englishman, but her emotional pen, in spite of all temptations, refuses to be expatriate. You would never accuse the author of this undammed narrative of being a reticent British-woman...