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RUNAWAY?Floyd Dell?Doran ($2). Michael Shenstone had a quarrel with respectability, and when for 13 years it had seared his wanderlustful soul, he bolted, leaving wife and child to Beaumont's communal pity. Seventeen years he spent raping the beautiful heads of Chinese idols and vagabonding in the Orient. At last he returned with a gay malacca stick, a piquant cloak and no repentance in his heart, only a desire to have a look at his daughter. In the end respectability made him hers through the romance of father love, and the accident of discovering a defaulter, which...
GOLD OF OPHIR-Sydney and Marjory Greenbie - Doubleday, Page ($4). The story of the lure of the Orient in early America, how it drew Yankee clippers around the Horn, how it propelled the movement westward across the continent...
...President" type, have plied between the Atlantic Coast and South America. They were operated for the Government under contract by the Munson Line and constituted one of the major services still operated for the Government. The last big sale of a going line was that of the California-Orient Line to the Dollars (TIME...
...Occident today must better exemplify to the Orient the Christianity it professes. It must deal justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with God; it must produce a cleaner journalism, less concerned with details of crime and more with the essence of the Christ-spirit so evident in our philanthropies and in the growth of our service and social conscience in community, state and Nation...
...their most onerous problems. He is called upon in labor troubles (in coal mining, etc.), in the settlement of War Debts (he is one of the Debt Funding Commission); he is Chairman of the St. Lawrence Waterway Commission; he is an expert on economic conditions in Europe and the Orient. The Bureau of Mines and the Patent Office were recently transferred to his control. He will probably have a controlling voice in Government policy towards commercial aviation. Last week a civil committee, appointed by him without anyone's urging and long before Colonel Mitchell stirred up the President...