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...best bestsellers. Reason: it is a literary mystery. For Henry Handel Richardson is but the nom de plume of an authoress who conceals her real name. She is a robust, middle-aged London woman, long and strong of face, wife of an able scientist. Born in Australia, trained in Leipzig for the career of concert pianist, she published in 1908 a musical novel called Maurice Guest. Admired by discerning critics, this novel has enjoyed quiet prestige for 20 years-from time to time a new edition is printed. In 1911 she planned a trilogy. The Fortunes of Richard Mahony...
...Vermont baggageman. Dr. Davis sold newspapers in his youth, learned telegraphy, worked his way through Dartmouth, later won a traveling fellowship and received a Ph.D. at German University of Leipzig. His malady incurable, he said last week: "Of course, I don't want to go-this is a mighty interesting world and I'm having a mighty good time in it. But I'm no more afraid of it (death) than I am of walking through the door to this study, for I know that I shall have a spiritual body to do with as I please...
...Since the War thousands of U. S. students seeking a continental education have gone to the Sorbonne. Lately, the German universities have been recovering prestige and U. S. tuition fees. Soon, unless the French portraits help prevent it, young U. S. scientists and philosophers will flock to Heidelberg, Gottingen, Leipzig, Berlin, as numerously as they did when Wilhelm was Der Kaiser and attending the Sorbonne was considered not the greatest of intellectual gestures...
Vernon Kellogg was a young professor of entomology and bionomics at Stanford University when Herbert Hoover was an undergraduate. Kansas-raised (Emporia), he had studied at Cornell, Leipzig, Paris. He had the scientific method that Hoover valued and was developing. While Hoover engineered in far parts, Scientist Kellogg stayed at Stanford, collaborating with Dr. David Starr Jordan, teaching classes, gaining a quiet renown. There were Hoover-Kellogg reunions whenever the wandering engineer returned to Palo Alto. In 1915 the engineer sent a call to Palo Alto and the quiet scientist went to Belgium to be a willing Hoover...
...romantic ancestry: his grandfather was favorite in Napoleon's body guard at St. Helena, and had the grim duty of protecting the dead Little Corporal's heart from voracious rats. But Arthur was a sweet-faced choirboy, beloved mascot of his father's band, successful candidate for a Leipzig Mendelssohn scholarship. Returned to London, he wrote cantatas, oratorios, 56 hymns (among them Onward Christian Soldiers), and also popular lyrics (The Lost Chord), and operetta-burlesque (Cox and Box). Victoria smiled on him, the masses adored...