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...schemes range from curing the sick oaks of the Borghese Gardens and ridding the Sistine of a faint smell of drains, to catholicizing France and re-establishing the Bourbon monarchy. Moved, amused, half suspecting that he is among current incarnations of the Olympians, the young American constitutes himself their Mercury???messenger, confidant, historian?setting down their biographies and a few episodes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: May 31, 1926 | 5/31/1926 | See Source »

...bright green covers?an excellent contrast with the orange coat of its English namesake, The London Mercury???Alfred A. Knopf presented for the first time The American Mercury with H. L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan. Messrs. Mencken and Nathan have produced a different product, but of a sort allied to their last magazine The Smart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bichloride of Mercury | 12/31/1923 | See Source »

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