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...WALTER SCOTT???John Buchan ?Coward-McCann ($3.75). Shorter and more readable biography than Lockhart's, pat for the Scott centenary...
Another nominating speech by another Scott???Charles F. of lola, Kan.?put the name of Charles Curtis before the convention in renomination for the Vice-Presidency. Vice President Curtis won, 634 ¼-to-401½. Only in 1912, when Theo dore Roosevelt split the Party and paved the way to a Democratic victory, had the G. O. P. renominated its previous ticket. It would not have occurred on the first ballot had not the Pennsylvania faction switched its 75 votes from General Ed ward Martin, State chairman, to Curtis at the last moment...
GERMAN WHITE BOOK and PRELIMINARY HISTORY OF THE ARMISTICE? edited by James Brown Scott???Oxford University Press ($2.00 each...
...translators?we are speaking of those who make translation their main occupation, not of such occasional translators as Shelley, say, or Scott???have attained a genuine celebrity upon translation alone. Gilbert Murray, of course, is almost unique among those who are rather transcribers, in a way, than actual, line-for-line translators. Alexander Teixera de Mattos is justly remembered, on the one hand, for his translations of Maeterlinck, on the other for his versions of Arsene Lupin. Louise Garnett's translations of Dostoieffski have brought her deserved and discriminating praise. But, in general, the translator is reduced to the scraps...
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