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...brunette, blue-eyed, literary, bashfully quiet, shrank from the glare of being her country's Hero's fiancee. Her father let the world guess, without assistance, at the time and place of the wedding. Industrious press ferrets brought up Miss Morrow's poems. Her last, in Scribner's, concluded: Still, like a singing lark, I find Rapture to leave the grass behind. And sometimes standing in a crowd My lips are cool against a cloud. ¶ In the midst of the general good feeling, the fatherly New York Times published a report that the Hero...
MOTHER OF KINGS-Norval Richardson-Scribner ($5). Letizia Bonaparte's life in all its climaxes and vicissitudes, richly recorded with engaging anecdote and great personages...
...also a man who both possesses this magic power and has mastered the difficulties of transmitting it. Sir James Barrie in his "Peter Pan" has turned the trick, and the Vagabond takes this opportunity of announcing that it has recently appeared for the first time in book form (Charles Scribner's Sons; $1.251. After spending a little time in a perusal of this famous work freed from the vagaries of stock companies and the limitations of the mechanical stage the reader should find himself much more tolerant towards the six year old cousin who confidently sent him a Santa Claus...
...funds to start the work. Funds ($500,000) were speedily donated on behalf of the New York Times by its publisher and control ling owner, Adolph S. Ochs. The first volume is a dignified maroon tome. The biographies are entertaining, lucid, informative. There are no pictures. The publishers (Charles Scribner's Sons, Manhattan) are selling the first volume for $12.50, will sell the complete set 6 years hence...
AMBITION - Arthur Train - Scribner's ($2.50). Simon Kent gets along in the world. Why? 1) He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and an asset to a law firm that handles shady cases for a potent oil corporation; 2) his wife knows how to mix cocktails for his employer. After four years, Simon gets tired of getting along, particularly when he finds out that his wife had duped him into marriage after having an illegitimate child by another man. Honest, basically upright Simon obtains a divorce, a wholesome job, a new and true wife. Author Train tells...