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...written on a score of phases of U. S. history, from The Formation of the Union to A Handbook of the War (with A. 0. Lovejoy) has edited (beside the 28 volumes mentioned) over a score of volumes of historical sourcebooks, histories, lives of statesmen and the Macmillan Co.'s exhaustive American Year Book (with W. M. Schuyler). He will now bend his energies upon South America, Australia and Theodore Roosevelt. In June, Harvard will bid him godspeed, call him "emeritus...
Explorers MacMillan and Amundsen having failed to settle the question by their flights last year, the 1926 explorers are already afield. Despatches from the snow motors division of the expedition financed by the Detroit Chamber of Commerce (TIME, Jan. 4) reported within the fortnight the breakdown of two "iron malamutes" (tractors). Husky-dogs have been substituted to freight supplies to Point Barrow, where Captain George Wilkins will arrive in April with his pilots and two Fokker planes. One pilot, Lieutenant Carl B. Eielson has flown over 60,000 miles all alone in the Alaskan airmail service between Fairbanks and McGrath...
PETER PANTHEISM-Robert Haven Schauffler-Macmillan ($2). Mr. Schauffler is an unregenerate word-and-phrase addict, or more politely, a poetic philologist. Give him a simple declarative idea and he will repeat it to you in a dozen new guises, tricked out in quotations, skipping in humor, prone in absurdity or radiant with glamour. It takes erudition, it takes nimbleness; but of both Mr. Schauffler has sufficient to jump over the conversational candlestick with our spryest informal essayists. Among the ideas herein prestidigitated are "Ignorance Is Bliss," "Cupid in Knickerbockers" (on calf love), "Timesquarese" (on alphabetical survival of the fittest...
...SURRY FAMILY?Helen R. Hull*?Macmillan...
Lieutenant Thomas, who is in charge of the Naval Aviation course at Swampscott, spoke last night in connection with a showing of the MacMillan North Pole expedition's aviation lectures at the Union. He took the place of Lieutenant Byrd, who was the Navy representative on the MacMillan expedition, but who was unexpectedly called to Washington. "I have never been to the North Pole," said Lieutenant Thomas, "but I will use my imagination...