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...Sacred Cause." THE MOONSTONE AND THE WOMAN IN WHITE-Wilkie Collins-Modern Library ($1.10). Reprint, in readable type, of two detective classics; with an introduction by Alexander Woollcott. The first and probably the best, full-length detective novel, The Moonstone has had a U. S. reputation confined mostly to hearsay...
Paramount issue in the argument which involved claims for damages on the grounds that insanity had resulted from the narrow escape of being run down by a truck were the questions of negligence on the part of the driver and the legality of certain hearsay evidence. Lawyers for the defendant delivery company earned their decision by disclaiming the plea of Insanity...
...LIFE OF RICHARD WAGNER, Vol. II: 1848-1860-Ernest Newman-Knopf ($5). Masterly account of the composer's underestimated role in the Revolution of 1849, his chronic professional and domestic wrangling over musical problems, love affairs, debts, odd cures for complicated illnesses. Astute Critic Newman finds more than hearsay behind the story that Wagner's real father was a Jewish actor named Geyer, his mother the illegitimate child of Prince Constantin of Weimar...
...reduced enrollment has been done. Past years of long and highly detailed assignments and generally rough sledding through the myriad details of American government have left their stamp, a Freshman have an instinctive fear of enrolling in this basically worthwhile course. Their attitude is equally founded on both common hearsay and what has been, in the past, the truth...
...answer to the question of the definite opportunity in government service for trained college graduates is found, in my mind at least, in the increasing number of requests from government personnel directors for such men. I do not base that upon assumption or hearsay, but upon my own actual experience in Washington over the past two years. It should be marked, however, that I referred to "trained college graduates" and not just to "college graduates.' I will explain that later...