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...Andrew Carnegie [see letter in Appendix of World-Religion Sacred Scriptures] wrote: "I have purchased this book by the half-dozen several times and sent to friends." Through his unsolicited generosity the price of two volumes has been placed at the actual cost of publishing and delivery-- so that all interested in Cosmopolitan Religion and Ethics may be able to procure them. For the first and second editions of World Religion Sacred Scriptures a large number of very favorable Press and Personal Commendations were received by their publishers, George Putnam's Sons of New York and London...
...best essay on "International Arbitration." The prize is given by Chester Dewitt Pugsley '09, and may be completed for by any male college undergraduate in America. The present contest closes on March 15, 1914. Each essay shall bear a "nom de plume" which should be included in an accompanying letter giving the writer's real name, college, class, and home address. The essays should be sent to H.C. Phillips, Secretary of the Conference, 3531 14th Street, N.W., Washington...
...Andrew Carnegie [see letter in Appendix of World-Religion Sacred Scriptures] wrote: "I have purchased this book by the half-dozen several times and sent to friends." Through his unsolicited generosity the price of two volumes has been placed at the actual cost of publishing and delivery--so that all interested in Cosmopolitan Religion and Ethics may be able to procure them. For the first and second editions of World Religion Sacred Scriptures a large number of very favorable Press and Personal Commendations were received by their publishers, George Putnam's Sons of New York and London...
...second volume takes up his letters at the beginning of his career as a teacher, and carries them through the chapters of "The Field of Influence," "Friends and Country," "Activities of Retirement," "Unto the Last." New affections and interests spring up to take the places of the old, and we have his enlightening correspondence with Thomas Carlyle, Samuel Gray Ward, Dr. Horace H. Furness, W. D. Howells, S. Weir Mitchell, and many others. His last letter, to Mr. C. F. Adams, was written on October 14, 1908, and he died just a week later...
...seems liable to find in store for him the same trouble that previous innocents have had before him. The worst of it is that, after the loss has been sustained, there will be no recovering from the confidence man, for he will have fulfilled his contract to the letter. For three or four successive years he has played the same game. His unlucky victims contracted for six hundred dollars worth of calendars (one thousand of them) to be retailed at a dollar apiece. The calendars were delivered and hurriedly accepted. Perhaps half or more of them were later found...