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...Raleigh, English Voyages of the Sixteenth Century...
Tobacco, its joys and sorrows, has caused much spilling of ink serious and otherwise, from the time of Raleigh, Jonson and the first James to the ever-existing present. Accordingly we should be willing to let the topic rest there, as last handled all too competently by Barrie, and not attempt to break forcibly into the literary roll of fame. Yet the old adage, "autre temps, autre moeurs", still holds good--and the custom of letting our betters have a free field in "Tobacco" must be for once forgotten under the pressure of the latest news from Russia...
...Virginia, The New England States and Pennsylvania, the Universities of Harvard and Yale, the First President of the United States, and other illustrious Americans, by Marcus B. Huish, L.L.B., with 130 illustrations, 60 in color by Elizabeth M. Chettle. Title page executed by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, London. Contents: Raleigh, Three Dorsetshire Worthies, Emmanuel College, Cambridge. The Pilgrim Fathers, The Passing of the Pilgrims, Three Pilgrim Leaders, Captain Miles Standish, Governor Wilson, John Carver, The First Governors of the Colony of Massachusetts, the Founder of Harvard, John Harvard, and such famous men as Elihu Yale, George Washington, Franklin, William Penn...
...party will leave Sunday morning for Washington, arriving at the Capital at four in the afternoon, where they will stay at the Hotel Raleigh. Monday morning they will leave for Charlottsville, Va., playing the University of Virginia in the afternoon and returning to Washington in the evening...
...laudable desire to set before the public history as a pageant, great men and famous women acting out the world's story, Mr. Sabatini has selected incidents ranging in variety from Boris Gudonov's encounter with the pretended son of Ivan the Terrible to the betrayal of Sir Walter Raleigh. Then, in the manner of the more rabid of the Romantic school writers, he has moved his characters ranting bombastically, gesturing grandly through the scenes. He has robbed his characters of any individuality, and little traits of personality, and left them mere names...