Word: harpers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...RETURN OF FRANK CLAMART ? Henry C. Rowland ? Harper ($1.90). 'Frank Clamart's visiting card should read, "Virtuous Assas-sinations?Singly or by the Dozens ?No Reduction Made for Quantity. " A master-criminal, reformed and now crusading against an international dope ring and murder syndicate, he extinguishes evildoers with nonchalance and celerity. His friend, Shane Emmet, a cartoonist with a camera-eye, assists his adventurous labor with blackjack, revolver and sketchbook, and strings along two high-speed love affairs the interim. When the plot is finally unsnarled, scoundrelly corpses fairly heap the floor, and Emmet, strangely enough, receives...
TIME Is WHISPERING?Elizabeth Robins -Harper ($2.00). Those who like the leisurely novel, especially when it deals with English country houses, five o'clock tea on the terrace, water-gardens and misogynistic squires, etcetera, should enjoy Time Is Whispering. Three hundred and seventy-nine pages devoted almost exclusively to the rise and dedevelopment of a middle-aged love affair, sans fireworks or asterisks, between a retired Indian administrator and a gentle and genteel widow, may seem to those who prefer excitement in their reading a little too placid. A safe book to give an old-fashioned aunt...
...IT?René Viviani?Harper...
...David Starr Jordan, President Emeritus of Stanford, opposes the four-term system introduced by President Harper at Chicago and now in use in about 24 universities, on the ground that it makes for speed at the cost of thoroughness...
...GIFT BOOK FOR MY MOTHER, by Harrison Rhodes; Harper and Brothers, New York...