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...shades of a late great writer and of others not so great slide and fade across the pages of Robert Nathan, sometimes linger there. Anatole France's is the biggest shadow; lesser ones, not so clear in outline, resemble O. Henry or Richard Harding Davis. The Orchid is like a miniature in enamel: ingenious, smooth, fitted cunningly into small spaces. It is not. a novel but a satirical fable, a grownup fairy story...
...inadequate water supply, by writing a signed and widely-circulated voters' bulletin. Excerpts: "You speculate on the practical uses of Lake Springfield. . . . The next afternoon you are inclined to loaf, take the trip over the Lake Springfield trail. . . . Climb into the family bus and hit the trail. . . . Linger through the evening. Watch the sun go down in purple splendor, and study the famous afterglow of Central Illinois, the benediction...
...Walcott, for a third of a century one of the governing board of Harvard College, as integral a part of old Cambridge as the Common, opposite his home; Henry Rogers, who only two years ago wrote his "Memories of Ninety Years": Charles Alexander Nelson, whose presence still seems to linger in the Columbia Library; John Torrey Morse, who began writing American biography more than half a century ago and is still at it-his latest book, published last year, was a life of Thomas Sergeant Perry; on to the eleventh on the list, Mr. Justice Holmes, of the class...
Broken by death and disgrace though the Ohio Gang is, memories of its high revels and rapacious graft from 1921 to 1923 still linger in the back eddies of Washington gossip. Never has the full story been told of the clique which came into power the day Warren Gamaliel...
Such exhibitions and lectures are worth while in any field, and there will doubtless be numerous persons, in whose minds there may linger some doubts or much curiosity on the subjects of lithographic works, Flemish tapestries, or Persian paintings, who will gratefully take advantage of these...