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...prototype of the plot has often furnished the theme for other novels, and movies. Mr. Godwin Birtwhistle, wealthy, aging, respectable, sedate north of England manufacturer well settled, comfortably married, went, much against his will, to London on business...
...notable such as Julius Rosenwald and Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, friendly to Negroes, had been heard. Resolutions were passed and a million dollar program for promoting more perfect race equality was adopted. The climax came when the Spingarn medal, the symbol of Negro distinction, was presented to Dr. Carter Godwin Woodson for "ten years' service in collecting and publishing records of the Negro in America...
...years after Appomattox, unto two ex-slaves of Virginia was born a ninth child-Carter Godwin Woodson. Doubly handicapped by color and by poverty, he nevertheless had acquired by 1912 a University of Chicago M. A. and a Harvard Ph. D. His outstanding achievement was the organization of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History in connection with which he has devoted his life to the collection of sociological and historical documents of Negro significance. Interested readers perusing casually the maze of unfamiliar facts portrayed in history viewed through smoked glasses* glance twice at such information...
There is a galloping chapter on "Sporting Books." "Skinner Street News" touches on the Godwin-Wollstonecraft-Shelley group. Dickensians will relish "The Greatest Little Book in the World." But a particular interest is unnecessary for lively enjoyment of any of these papers; the wide knowledge they reflect is so unassuming, so humanized, so colored by the author's manifold personality...
Claire, another Godwin daughter, deliberately got herself into trouble with the notorious Lord Byron. This brought Shelley and the then greater poet into close touch and the rest of the story deals with life in Italy, the death of two of Shelley's children, the platonic affection of Shelley for several beautiful women, his naked appearance before the ladies of his household, the gradual cooling of his relation with Mary, the building of the boat Ariel,? named after...