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...following estimates of books much in the public eye were made after careful consideration of the trend of critical opinion: THE HOME-MAKER-Dorothy Canfield-Harcourt Brace ($2.00). Wearily Lester Knapp lay down at night, and in the morning roused up wearier. He hated his job in the dry-goods store, and was a failure at it. His wife scrubbed the floor, harangued the children, cooked the food, ate her heart out. On the day Knapp lost his position he came home to find his house on fire; he climbed up on the icy roof, praying that he would slip...
...Author. Edmund Lester Pearson, graduated from Harvard in 1902 with what he terms "the fearsome degree of Bachelor of Library Science," has since been working in various libraries. In the copyright office of the Library of Congress he held what he designates as "the only library position that ever gave him any real exercise"−an exalted post in charge of all the circus posters deposited for copyright, which had to be spread out on the floor and measured with a yardstick. "To that," says he, "I owe my taste...
...STUDIES IN MURDER−Edmund Lester Pearson−Macmillan...
There are fewer dancing solos than usual, and the ordinarily elastic Lester Allen and Tom Patricola have to restrict the natural exuberance of their limbs to a few hoof thumpings. But in that way no one is ever on the stage long enough to wear a crease in the audience's patience. The show has two fine singers in Richard Talbot and Helen Hudson, the latter showing one of the sweetest voices this side of grand opera...
...Edwin Holt Hughes to Chicago. William E. Anderson to Boston. Adna W. Leonard to Buffalo. Wilbur Thirkield to Chattanooga, Tenn. Theodore Henderson to Cincinnati. Matthew W. Clair to Covington, Ky. Ernest L. Waldorf to Kansas City. Frederick T. Keeney to Omaha. Charles E. Locke to St. Paul. H. Lester Smith to Helena, Mont. Thomas Nicholson to Detroit. Charles W. Burns to San Francisco...