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...SWAN?A little backstairs gossip deftly applied to royalty without rubbing off the gloss...
...Merrill ($2.50). An outspoken, thoughtful appeal to solve the eternal triangle of God, Man and the Devil through the instruments of Science now available and through new standards of conduct. Mr. Wiggam is a lecturer and professor. This is his first book-a powerful new viewpoint that does not gloss over the status of civilization with honeyed words of praise and glorification. The book is divided in two parts. The first part consists of five warnings to mankind: 1) that the advanced races; of mankind are going backwards; 2) that heredity is the chief maker of men; 3) that...
...audience showed their appreciation of Mr. Leven's satire in a manner which would warm the heart of many a better known playwright. Though some might occasionally accuse the author of over caricaturing, yet the people were so well drawn that the pathetic could be seen beneath the gloss of humor...
...Gloss of Youth" (Lippincott) Horace Howard Furness Jr., who is carrying on his father's work in editing, the Variorum Shakespere, leaves the annotators to their wrangling and lets his imagination run free. The one-act play, which was produced not long ago at Philadelphia, is an imaginary episode in the life of the Bard of Avon. Feeling that the public cares only for his "ranting" histories and has no feeling for his great tragedies Shakespere is in a state of depression. But the interest which three children, one John Milton and another Noll Cromwell, take in his work, refreshes...
...most eager to volunteer. Entirely disregarding that now historic million which was to spring to arms in the same short time, there were two hundred thousand men eagerly anxious to obtain admission to the officers' training camps. Their pristine patriotism may not be considered to have lost its gloss. A like number of men volunteered for service under Mr. Roosevelt. Combining these two, we have four hundred thousand...