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Other Americans present but obscure: Gene Sarazen, Gil Nicholls, Johnny Farrell (disabled by boils...
...home green MacDonald ran into a tie with Jim Barnes of Pelham, at 295. In the play-off Mac-Donald shot 70, three under par, and defeated Barnes by ten strokes. MacDonald won the same title in 1921, and lost it in a similar play-off to Gil Nichols in 1915. (Bobby Jones was not entered...
...critic, he was insensible to Scott, to Byron, to Shelley, to the contemporary in general; he preferred Smollet to Fielding, and yet could not read Gil Blas; but towards the English writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, he showed himself a critic of genius. Although Lamb did more, however, for bringing back Sir Thomas Browne and other old writers to life in the sense of causing them to be read again in the nineteenth century, it is not to be forgotten that Lamb struck a happy vein of contemporary criticism as one of the very earliest welcomers of Wordsworth...
...Quixote, Middlemarch, and one of Balzac's by twelve, Tom Jones by ten, Adam Bede, David Copperfield, and one of Miss Austen's by nine, Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Kidnapped or David Balfour by seven, the Pickwick Papers and a Tale of Two Cities by six, and Gil Blas by five...
SEMINAR IN SPANISH I.- Gil Blas will be read from the text Tuesday evening...