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...times, is quoted as commenting recently; "there is not more history, nothing but line typed records and political economy!" The point raised by this somewhat cryptic remark is one which has divided present-day historians into two camps as widely divergent as the Big Endiaus and Little Endiaus of Lilliput. Certainly there has never been a time when the raw flux of history and romance has poured out as plentifully as today. The question is one of treatment...
...stories there are in the number three: "A Newly Discovered Fragment from a Voyage to Lilliput," by F. D. Roosevelt; "In the Morning," signed P. Blair; and "Scraggy," by R. G. Fuller. The last is the most original in conception and the best told. A short essay, "Identity," by Judson Greely, is sincere without being either pompous or ministerial, thanks to a rather bright way of putting things...
...Quarter-mile bicycle, scratch, (open). 1st prize, Anthony's Lilliput Detective Camera, given by Barker and Starbird, 56 Bromfield street, Boston; 2d prize, Smith and Wesson hammerless revolver; 3d prize, "Pettitt" tennis racket...