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...defendants remained a speculative secret last week. Undoubtedly he was relying on the probability that the prosecution had no eye-witness to the Kahahawai killing, would thus have to content itself with a circumstantial case. That he would attempt to justify the murder as a matter of Anglo-Saxon honor by bringing the rape of Mrs. Massie into the testimony, bobbed up during the jury-picking. Judge Davis, however, was inclined to rule that Kahahawai's guilt in that assault had not been established in court and was therefore irrelevant. One report was that the forthcoming evidence would show...
...generous dividends-$110 a share in 1914. $50 in 1916, $100 in 1917, $50 for the next two years. $17.50 and a stock dividend of 150 in 1920. The present rate is $4. Typical of a big company's line are such Dixon brands as the green Anglo-Saxon, blue Rapid Writer, Thinex, black Beginners, Lumber Crayon, red-white-&-blue Uncle Sam, buff & blue Bicentennial, purple Violo...
...died, slain in his own Cathedral. But one doesn't really know Becket until he has left his histories and turned to another of the arts. A poet has left behind a picture of him as clear and brilliant as the painter's Richelieu. Tennyson shaped this solid Anglo-Saxon in the mould of flesh and blood...
Rarer, though a shade less precious than the Tikytt psalter, were the Blickling Homilies, only Anglo-Saxon manuscript in the U. S., a volume of 149 vellum pages written by two scribes about 971. For it Barnet J. Beyer, Manhattan bookdealer, paid $55,000. For $45,000 he also got what was described as "the most important early illustrated book ever sold at auction"-Boccaccio's De La Ruine des Nobles hommes et femmes. Translated by Pierre Faivre, it was the first dated book (1476) with copperplate illustrations. Disposal of the Boccaccio was complicated by the competition...
...Carr's "Life of Dostoevsky" brings out ht peculiarities of the Russian mind from an Anglo-Saxon point of view. His subject had to a high degree the introspective, soul-searching nature of an average Russian. What Dostoevsky lacked was the wide decriptive power of Tolstoi. Psychologically his work is intensely interesting, but this should not obscure the creative and artistic qualities of "Crime and Punishment" and "The Brothers Karamazov." Mr. Carr's book is a dispassionate study of the great Russian novelist. The biographer believes that Dostoevsky, in his subtlety, brutality, piety, and lust, came nearer to the inconsistency...