Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this volume the author, drawing on the experience, of a long and distinguished career, makes evident to us the value of a knowledge of anthropology--the science of the natural history of man and his culture--to an understanding of our modern life...
Clara Barrus, the old naturalist's informally adopted daughter, who mothered him through his last lonely years, now weaves a memorial wreath from leaves of his Journals. The book is good, eminently readable, the true record of a long and many-colored life...
...This Book-Collecting Game there are discussions of bindings, of earmarks of editions, of auctions, of the "knockouts," of the rewards and perils of the collectors life. With frontispiece in color and 133 illustrations in aquatone...
...such comprehensive effort has hitherto been made to assess the forces of twentieth century life, and the result commands the concern of all who have an interest in their own age and its destiny...
...foremost biographer of to-day has written the life story of one of the world's greatest figures--poet and dramatist, Goethe's creative life, his social life and sex life, are recorded with drama and sound insight...