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...youngsters, that system has made the expedition virtually selfsupporting, since Mr. Buchanan's boys, when they grow up, make it a point to pay one-third of some other boy's expenses. It seems a business like sort of philanthropy to Mr. Buchanan, who prides himself on Scottish shrewdness, tells of his discovery that by eating late and taking advantage of the difference in time he can save one meal every summer on the return trip from Alaska to Detroit...
...published Prince Charlie and His Ladies. Author Mackenzie writes Jacobitingly, speaks with contumely of "Whig" reviewers who deplore his loyalist zeal. U. S. readers may not share Author Mackenzie's emotions nor his unflagging interest in the controversial minutiae of the Jacobite legends, but they will not need Scottish blood to perk up their ears at these echoes of "the Forty-five." Author Mackenzie's is not a formal history of the Young Pretender but a series of portraits of the women who made up a large part of his life. Charles Edward Louis John Casimir Sylvester Maria...
...Merwin and Lou Liggett were boys together on the streets of Detroit. Then their ways parted for 25 years; when they met again they had both made the grade. Liggett's career has enough forge-ahead stuff for three Horatio Alger stories. His Scottish-Dutch ancestry gave him a big body, unbounded assurance, tireless ambition. By the time he was 21 he had a house, a wife, a ponycart and $7,000 in the bank. His first independent venture, with a bankrupt store, was typical. Overnight he painted long rows of red footsteps leading to his shop, was arrested...
...John Bull, who takes his name and characteristics from it, to be regarded as the national archetype. The other breeds, most of which are represented in this volume, also connote various spiritual attributes to the mind of men. Thus we expect hauteur in the King Charles spaniel, conrage in Scottish terrier, selfishness in the Pekingese, and gentleness in the St. Bornard, Man does not yet know the dog however, for two of his most outworn similes directly contradict each other: "as devoted as a dog" and "as treacherous as a dog." Knowledge can scarcely be said to exist where...
Last February Death came to Archeologist James Leslie Mitchell, at 34. A literary dual personality, Archeologist Mitchell was also Novelist Lewis Grassic Gibbon. An authority on Mayan civilization (The Conquest of the Maya TIME, Feb. 4), he had written a Scottish-dialect trilogy (previously published: Sunset Song, Cloud Howe) and another big novel (to be published in the U. S. next season). Grey Granite, Author Gibbon's posthumous Parthian shaft, was the concluding volume of his trilogy...