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...KING VERSUS WARGRAVE-J. S. Fletcher - Knopf ($2.00). Marco Graffi, teacher of languages, one November morning was found stabbed to the heart in his London flat. Beautiful Gemma Graffi, living with him as his granddaughter, had vanished. A verdict of willful murder was brought against her by a coroner's jury. Our hero, Adrian Graye, medical student, who happened along in the fog at the psychological moment, nevertheless believed her innocent. So did John Wirlescombe, noted detective. All of which made things interesting when the missing Gemma turned up again seven years later as Lady Wargrave, widow...
History demonstrates one fact at least, that in every age a goodly proportion of folk praised the great men of the past but found little of comfort in their to-day and entertained grave forebodings of their to-morrow. In this respect History never fails to repeat itself. Marco Polo in China in the thirteenth century was told that there were "honest" Celestial politicans "a hundred years...
...November he wrote a series on the Anti-Saloon League and told more secrets about that organization than Marco Polo did about China...
...Washington a naval expert discovered that bulkheads (used to prevent ships from sinking) were first employed by Marco Polo...
...distinctly within the field of science: Aristotle's History of Animals (about 354 B. C.); Copernicus' The Revolution of the Heavens (A. D. 1543); Bacon's New Atlantis (1624); Darwin's Origin of Species (1859); while Plato's Republic (about 393 B. C.) and Marco Polo's Travels (1299) might easily be tagged as sociology and geography...