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...this priceless publicity, closed Sapho and went to bed an invalid. She never forgave the U. S. After War broke out, she joined the British Red Cross and began building a reputation of another kind. She became a crusader for Public Health, working up to a learned monograph on Milk Production & Distribution in Relation to Nutrition & Disease and calling her Hampstead retreat the Vale of Health. For all this her Commandership was last week a just reward...
...treasure is a Syrian antique dealer named Fahim Joseph Kouchakji, who is careful not to claim too much for his cup. As exhibited last week, it is referred to only as the Great Chalice of Antioch, but Mr. Kouchakji has published at his own expense a vast two-volume monograph by famed Antiquary Gustavus Augustus Eisen, which gives the reader much to think about...
...material is present for several exciting novels and a monograph on prison reform but unfortunately the two various themes are so interwoven in this biography of the pioneer prison reformer that it is all much time wasted by the reader who wants to carry away any definite impressions...
...midnight somebody remembered that Mrs. Sadlier, over across the Downs, kept bloodhounds. Mrs. Sadlier is the wife of Author-Publisher Michael Sadlier (Constable & Co.) whose writings range from a commentary and bibliography of Anthony Trollope to a monograph on the history of publishers' bindings. He changed his name from Sadler to Sadlier to avoid confusion with his equally distinguished father, Sir Michael Ernest Sadler, Master of University College, Oxford...
...wonder if this really is a true indication of scholarship. Are tracts on scholastic minutiae essential, do they indicate which are the sheep and which the goats? Changing aspects of education and the requirements to satisfy its definition today, make one believe that the mere publication of some droning monograph on a miniscular crumb of knowledge, is hardly in keeping with modern ideas...