Word: novels
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...swimming tanks have been built and broken stone is now being laid for the concrete bottom. The building will be lighted throughout with electric lights and the engine which will furnish power for the dynamo and also for the elevator will be soon put in position. A novel ventilating arrangement is provided consisting of brick tower twenty feet high which is sunk into the ground and connects with the cellar by means of two large pipes. The work which is just now being done is on the plastering and heating arrangements...
This number is also made notable by a posthumous story by Walcott Bolestier, who is the co-author with Mr. Kipling of "The Naulahka," "Reffey" is novel in plot and situation, the principal characters being a conductor on a far Western railroad, and two young women, one the manager of an eating-house, and the other a telegraph operator. Mr. Bolestier's friends consider this story a justification of the high hopes that were entertained for the future of this brilliant writer...
...novel scheme for settling difficulties between the Faculty and students is in practice at North western University. All questions are submitted to a committee of ten students and five members of the Faculty, whose decision is final...
...novel undertaking in the line of reference books is a year book of the Universities of the word, entitled "Minerva," shortly to appear from the press of Karl Trubner in Strassburg. It will give the personnel of the boards of management and instruction in all the leading universities in the world. The whole number represented...
...particular books recommended. In the advertising branches there is opportunity for the display of the greatest ingenuity; the life of a book may depend on the skill with which it is brought before the public; and, in general, the competition among different firms compels advertising to be novel and brilliant, to be eminently successful. Other departments of publishing also which afford good opportunities, are illustrating, management of agents' work, and subscription editions, and so forth...