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* Now New York State. * Each characteristic line, loop, arch, whorl of a set of fingerprints is numbered. The set is classified, can then be decoded for identification. †Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Browning, George Meredith, Burne-Jones, Rossetti, Ruskin, Kipling, Conrad, Hugh Waipole, Thomas Hardy, Walter de la Mare, Rupert...
The most valuable set of proofs in the collection is that of "Kim," by Kipling. This set would bring several thousand dollars at auction. Lewis Carroll's correaction of his "Phantasmagoria," one of the recently acquired Carroll collection, is also on show, as is the proof of "Confessions of a...
In addition to the Dickens works, there are on display, a number of presentation copies of Edgar Allen Poe, Rudyard Kipling and President Lowell.
After Harvard and Heidelberg he taught in Iowa, never marking attendance, always forgetting the drab scene and his lecture subjects to stray into ancient Greece. But one day his blackboard bore a note: "No class today. I've gone to war." He had met Rudyard Kipling at sea. Twenty...
Had they been interviewed, some people who figured in last week's news might have related certain of their doings as follows: Samuel Insull, organizer of electricity: "In Chicago last week I went to a hall in the black belt to address the National Negro Press Association. I waited...