Word: harper
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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BREAD & CIRCUSES?W. E. Woodward?Harper ($2). To the Angel of Death an old man complained: "I have not lived. . . . I've worked . . . talked a lot . . . loved . . . hated . . . laughed a good deal . . . built some houses . . . brought up my children . . . thought a little . . . and?" The Angel of Death interrupted, "That was Life." Thus Mr. Woodward prepared for his story: After a successful career as a vender of thinking?wholesale and retail?Michael Webb (friend of readers of Bunk) establishes himself at Echo Hill Inn in Connecticut. In this labyrinthine tavern with steps up, steps down from room to room, with...
WHEN AMERICA WAS YOUNG- John T. Faris-Harper ($6). Early American topics like housing, commerce, education, travel, holidays, pirates, each brought out by a series of quotations from contemporaneous descriptions...
...DAYS OF MY FATHER, GENERAL GRANT-Jesse R. Grant & Henry Francis Granger - Harper ($3.50). Lighter reminiscences of a President...
Handsome new editions, most of them beautifully illustrated, have been published of such classics as ALICE IN WONDERLAND-Boni, Liveright ($3); PINOCCHIO-Macmillan ($5.00); A CONNECTICUT YANKEE AT KING ARTHUR'S COURT-Harper ($2.50); THE PILOT-Minton, Balch ($2.50); THE ARABIAN NIGHTS- Dodd, Mead ($5); THE DEERSLAYER -Scribner's ($2.50); WHEN WE WERE VERY YOUNG-Dutton...
...Harper's Magazine offers to the three undergraduate college students who during the months of the college year from November 1 to May 1, produce the best pieces of English prose, three cash prizes of $500, $300 and $200. The manuscripts may be fiction, essays or articles and must not exceed 4,000 words in length. Manuscripts are to be entered by the heads of the English departments, each of whom may send not more than three manuscripts from the material submitted by his students. The judges are Christopher Merley, Zona Gale and William McLee. The contribution winning first prize...