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...Avis. When Scotland Yard's Detective Midwinter arrives on the scene the murder has been done, the corpse hidden, all clues covered. Midwinter rightly suspects Peter and Avis but can find no evidence. Instead he sets traps. Burly Peter might have blundered, but Avis reads Midwinter like a hornbook, makes game of all his plotting work. Making no headway, the detective returns to London. Now Avis and Peter are married, they have the farm they want, the baby they also wanted is on the way. But Peter broods, his mind goes slowly maggoty with remorse. When the ghost...
...China: First Treaties," Professor Hornbook, Harvard...
...other article, "The Harvard Reformer's Hornbook," Mr. D. H. Gordon pays his respects to Harvard's present combination of the divisional and tutorial systems and speculates on its future and on the future developments in other phases of the University's educational policies. It is one which shows that the writer has made a careful study of the problem. He has been equally careful in writing...
Other interesting objects are an early English hornbook, and an American hornbook found in New Jersey, one of three known specimens with a battledore and some early English primers. There is also the only known copy of Lilley's Latin Grammar, and a unique handbook of penmanship issued...