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Last week the people of Indianapolis decided that their city government represented one such "outstanding failure." Said Meredith Nicholson, famed Hoosier novelist: "Do you know that for not one but for half a dozen years the newspapers of Indianapolis have printed almost daily stories of the degradation of public office?. . . We have had one shameful thing after another and the end is not yet. . . .We seem to have placed ourselves in the unenviable category of Philadelphia-a city corrupt but contented...
...Meredith Publishing Co., Des Moines, Iowa
...York State. * Each characteristic line, loop, arch, whorl of a set of fingerprints is numbered. The set is classified, can then be decoded for identification. †Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Browning, George Meredith, Burne-Jones, Rossetti, Ruskin, Kipling, Conrad, Hugh Waipole, Thomas Hardy, Walter de la Mare, Rupert Brooke, Henry James...
...corrections of Thackeray's are also on display one of a manuscript of his lecture on George II, the other of the Roundabout Papers. Other proofs corrected personally by the author include "The Surgeon's Daughter." by Scott, "The Amazing Marriage," by Meredith, "Ballads," by Rosetti, and a proof of "Bells and Pomegranates," by Browning, on which in addition to the usual annotations, he drew pictures in the margin illustrating his points...
...attach himself to his victims' coattails and drag them down to get an audience. Glad to say, the reader needs dragging down less than ever. The sharp sound of splitting wood and the dejected back of the vicar plodding homeward remind the Oldest Member of young Chester Meredith, ah yes, poor chap. . . . and so he relates how Chester came within a chip shot of not crashing the course record, simply through a misunderstanding with his best girl about soul-satisfying, putt-producing profanity. Rollo Podmarsh is the subject of another reminiscence. Rollo was too good to be happy...