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...everywhere had sent their collections; the President of the exhibition himself, Charles Lathrop Pack, beady-eyed and white-mustachioed, exhibited his fine group of early Victoria stamps (limited to the issues with the half-length and enthroned portraits of the Queen), a collection which formed the basis for a monograph which won a gold medal for philatelic research at a London exhibition...
DOROTHY Dix-HER BOOK-Funk & Wagnalls ($2). "The most popular woman journalist in the world" has selected the most glowing bits of her daily stint to throw a beam into a naughty world;- has subtitled it: "Every-day Help for Everyday People." Each monograph is loaded with domestic BB shot, aimed at the human race, fired regardless of target. The chapter headings, "How a Husband Likes to be Treated," "Charm," "Have a Goal," "The Goat Family," "Learn a Trade, Girls," "Trial Divorce," "An Indoor Sport," "Should Women Tell," "Queer Things about Marriage," "Forget It," "The Secret of Happiness" are like...
Your reference to the taste of human flesh (TiME, Aug. 23) prompts me to suppose that you may be interested in certain little known facts about human gastronomy which have come to my notice while preparing a monograph upon cannibalism...
HYGIENE OF SEX?Max von Gruber, M. D.?Williams & Wilkins ($1.50). The publishers set forth two excellent reasons for bringing this German monograph before the U. S. public: the strong recommendation of eminent U. S. health authorities, and the reception of the book in Europe by scientific men and a public of 300,000. Family physicians testify to the need for a simple, direct, complete presentation of knowledge that they wish all their patients might possess. They pronounce Dr. von Gruber's work the best they have yet seen, especially for its lack of "moral poultice." "Certain portions...
JOSEPH CONRAD?Ford Madox Ford ?Little, Brown (|2.50). Ford Madox Ford collaborated with Conrad in the writing of Romance, The Inheritors, The Nature of a Crime. In this monograph, which is built up like a house of blocks out of pointed anecdotes, snatches of conversation, brief and vivid scenes recollected, the personality of Joseph Conrad is projected as he revealed it to a human being during many years of close intimacy. You have Conrad hypnotizing a country grocer into giving him three years unlimited credit, throwing teacups into the fire when heated by argument with a lady, sailing...