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...WANDERER or LIVERPOOL-John Masefield-Macmillan ($3.50).† The first book John Masefield has written as England's Poet Laureate is appropriately a book about an English ship: the steel four-masted barque Wanderer of Liverpool. The Wanderer has already appeared in enterprising Publisher Hearst's Cosmopolitan. Not all the book is poetry, but even Masefield's prose descriptions of his heroine have often the ring of verse...
...Wanderer was built in her owners' (W. H. Potter & Co.) yards in Liverpool, launched in 1891. She was the biggest sailing ship yet built, over 300 ft. long, of nearly 3,000 tons. "She was of a full model, wall-sided, rather hard in the bilge and with a flat floor, though she grew somewhat sweeter aft. Above the waterline, she was lovely. . . . She was the last achievement in sailing-ship building and rigging: nothing finer had been done, or ever was done." But her very first voyage started with disaster. While still under tow she ran into heavy...
...tragedy, on Sept. 15, 1830, an ex-cabinet minister died at the inauguration of a then new-fangled mode of transportation: William Huskisson, the Duke of Wellington's Secretary of Colonies, bumped by the locomotive at the opening of one of Britain's first railroads (Liverpool & Manchester). Loud was the outcry then against "dangerous" railroads...
...every Briton knows that Lord Birkenhead's grandfather was first a miner, next a fisticuffer who fought his way to the heavyweight championship of Yorkshire, finally a zealous house agent in grimy Birkenhead?just across the River Mersey from bustling Liverpool...
...sold at $100 apiece. But Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin can do things remarkably like that. To understand this, to gauge the potential power of Red statesmen to work mischief in world markets, was more vital last week than to be scared by lurid rumors of Red grain dumping in Liverpool and Amsterdam, Red speculating for the decline in Chicago's wheat...