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STILL IS THE SUMMER NIGHT-August Derleth-Scribner ($2.50). Dramatic story of two brothers' love for one woman (conclusion inevitable), fluently told against an interesting background of smalltown Wisconsin life in the 1880s...
...resulting Dictionary is handsomer than its British sister, far freer and less formal in style. The first is owing to Publisher Charles Scribner Sr., the second to the Dictionary's original editor, Historian Allen Johnson, both of whom died in time to fit into their proper volumes. It contains fewer biographies (13,633) by more contributors (2,243). Originally Editor Johnson decided to set a limit of 10,000 words to each biography, but that was exceeded in five instances: Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Woodrow Wilson...
...LIVING JEFFERSON-James Truslow Adams-Scribner...
SOVIET COMMUNISM : A NEW CIVILIZATION?-Sidney and Beatrice Webb-Scribner...
...LAST PURITAN-George Santayana -Scribner...