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WASHINGTON SPEAKS FOR HIMSELF -Lucretia Perry Osborn-Scribner's ($3.50). Provoked by the flood of so-called biographies of General Washington, Mr. Osborn has joined together the writings of the man himself to the end that Washington may tell his own story. These writings, which include diaries, letters, addresses, state and war papers, have been arranged chronologically by Author Osborn, and connected by concise, impartial passages to facilitate transition from one document to the next. The whole effect is admirable, and the book has at least one advantage over an autobiography in that the element of self-interest...
...Smith Thomas Frazier, W. G. Goodhue, L. Grinnell, A. E. Heyman, F. E. McQuade, M. Myerson, A. Plaza, R. K. Safford, J. N. Trainor, E. T. Tryon, P. Vonckx, S. J. Weiss Standish R. J. Carpenter, T. W. Dunn, G. L. Graves, D. Greeley. D. J. Orgain, W. P. Osborn, N. E. Parkinson, K. Yamaguchi...
...this sensational yarn and so much emphasis has been placed upon statements I did not make and stories I did not tell and I have received so much praise for something I did not do, that I did write an explanatory and corrective letter to Colonel N. G. Osborn of the New Haven Journal-Courier, whose editorial was the first intimation I had of the existence of this extremely garbled account of my remarks...
...Colonel Osborn was good enough on Oct. 3 to print that part of my letter to him which corrected the inaccurate statements...
Among his many old supporters who grieved to see so popular and potent a politician in jail was Chase Salmon Osborn, millionaire and onetime (1911-12) Governor of Michigan, who in 1926 appealed...