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...OSCAR WILDE FROM PURGATORY-Hester Travers Smith-Holt...
...Hawkes, Holt, and Holcombe Judge...
Dean Hawkes of Columbia, Colonel Holt of West Point and Professor A. N. Holcombe of Harvard are the national judges...
FORTY YEARS A GAMBLER ON THE MISSISSIPPI-George H. Devol -Henry Holt ($2). An inland buccaneer tells many disconnected anecdotes of fleecing the not-so-innocents who traveled up and down the great valley before, during and after the Civil War. The chief characters are the three little pasteboards of three-card monte; the marked poker deck; palmed aces, loaded dice and Devol, who never would give up his takings, preferring a rough-and-tumble every time. He was an expert rough-and-tumbler and left a trail of broken noses behind him by his deftness at ramming with...
Dean Hawkes, of Columbia, Colonel Holt, of West Point, and Professor A. N. Holcombe of Harvard have been chosen as the national judges. Professor Holcombe will announce the arrangements for the examination here toward the end of this week...