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Bascom Dinsmore (in no way related to the famed Elsie and portrayed by the aforementioned Mr. King) has escaped from the cares of London society to the solitude of a snowbound, windswept radio hut in Labrador. This solitude has, after two years, become oppressively complete and Dinsmore seems on the point of yielding to the suggestion of his Eskimo man and accepting the services of a native lady of all work. The unhappy man is saved from this greasy fate by the sudden appearance of Sir James Fenton, noted English sportsman and prig, and his comely fiancee, Ethel Campion...
...Doran ($2.50). Collected poems: The Eaten Heart, A Dream in the Luxembourg, et al.; some new ones. A CHILD WENT FORTH-Helen MacKnight Doyle, M. D.-Gotham House ($3). Autobiography of a woman doctor in the West, famed as a U. S. pioneer in her profession. THE ROMANCE OF LABRADOR-Sir Wilfred Grenfell-Macmillan ($4). Famed missionary-doctor looks at the past, present and future of his adopted country. A GUIDE TO CIVILIZED LOAFING-H. A. Overstreet-Norton ($2). Hints on how to occupy the New Leisure, by a bright writer. NINE ETCHED FROM LIFE-Emil Ludwig-McBride ($3). Short...
...Abram Kean is no gaffer doddering over his memories by a cottage fireside. Last week from the desolate ice fields off Labrador flashed the news that Captain Kean, having piled 4,000 sculps aboard his ship Beothic that day, had become the first skipper in history to bag 1,000,000 seals...
...fatter than those on Pribilof, are covered with coarse brown hair instead of fur, and lead a harder life. Each winter they swim 1,000 mi. into the Arctic, where they become food, fuel and clothing for Eskimos. Each spring they swim down to bear their young on the Labrador ice fields, be clubbed by Newfoundlanders, become soap, pocketbooks, slippers and knicknacks for citizens...
...lance anthropologist named David I. Bushnell Jr., after long sifting of evidence and conferences with Dr. Hrdlicka and other experts, had completed preliminary maps tracing the west-east course of four great tribes. The Algonquion came from the northwest, skirted the Great Lakes, spread over the Atlantic seaboard from Labrador to North Carolina. Some turned south into Tennessee where they were stopped by a wave of Sioux pushing straight across the country from the southwest. From the southwest also came the Muskhogean and proto-Muskhogean peoples who trickled into the Gulf States (Choctaw, Creek, Chicksaw). From the Ozark Mountains...