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Last week Vol. 1, No. 1 appeared. Selling at 50?, it is handsomely printed in octavo size, resembling Hound & Horn. The first issue had no pages and four pages of half-tones tipped in. Typical of the latter was "The Forgotten Man," an abject figure asleep in a cheap doorway. Contributors to the first issue included such famed economists as John Maynard Keynes ("A New Monetary Policy for England"), Sir Josiah Stamp ("Our Price Level Problem"), William Trufant Foster ("Is Fiat Money Any Worse than Fiat Poverty?"). Among a group who discussed Mr. Foster's article was gloomy Richard...
...editions of 40, 48 and 56 pages are becoming commonplace in a half-dozen cities in the U. S. Sunday (or Saturday) editions of less than 100 pages are considered puny. The Sunday New York Times has appeared with 240 pages-the paper of which could easily make seven octavo volumes of 300 pages each. This bulk will not abate, according to Henry Alexander Wise Wood, who has taken out more patents on printing machinery than any other man. In last week's Editor & Publisher, he predicted the coming of "the 100-page daily newspaper-magazine" in less than...
...voices by Dr. Davison and sung by the Club during the past three years, have been published by the E. C.--Schirmer Music Company of 221 Columbus avenue, Boston, under the Concord Series, of which Dr. Davison is one of the editors. The collection is in octavo sheet form and for the first edition the cover is strikingly printed...
...index finger draw from his cheering section a perfect salvo, sometimes two salvi, of applause. I have seen him handle the Michigan "locomotive," a clumsy oratorio at best, with a deftness of forearm movement and an utter absence of physical effort which transformed it into a veritable octavo volume of sound with deckled edges...
This is a book of something over 400 pages, of octavo size, not too thick, or too, heavy or too expensive for every wise traveller who is interested in casties to take with him to Scotland. The information given is just about what one wants-a brief architectural and historical account of a hundred of the most significant Scotch castles. The interest and value of the book are, moreover, greatly enhanced by the fifty-one illustrations, mostly pleasant, brown halftones, but comprising also four colored plates and seventeen plans. There is a short introduction, which outlines none too convincingly...