Word: foreword
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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FLATLAND - A Square - Little, Brown ($1.50). Some 40 years ago, critics hurled brickbats and bouquets, hurled them hard, at this small book, whose pseudonymous author was then headmaster of the City of London School, the Rev. Edwin Abbott Abbott, M.A., D.D. Now the book is republished with a foreword by erudite William Garnett, in view of the detection of a fourth dimension by Dr. Einstein. It is a geometric romance for non-mathematicians; an extremely simple fable with amazing implications and a vein of social satire that remains ageless...
...foreword, setting forth the Committee's purpose, and the conclusion, which summarises the whole report and makes special recommendations are here with reprinted in full...
...Foreword...
...Bascom Slemp, Washington lawyer, onetime major domo at the White House office building, announced last week the forthcoming publication of a book, a compilation of President Coolidge's utterances on domestic and foreign policies. The book is to have a foreword by the President and explanatory notes by his former Secretary. Mr. Slemp last week set forth its raison...
ELIJAH COBB (1768-1848): A CAPE COD SKIPPER-With a foreword by Ralph D. Paine-Yale University Press...