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...editorial in the New York Times, commenting on President Hopkin's defense of the college youth in the current Scribner's, mentions his contention that "this youth is as if to determine between reality, and fallacy, between truth and error, and between sincerity and hypocricy, as he will be at any later time in life." The editorial goes on to say that, "The college must give its undergraduate the guidance of sincere and thorough scholars and help him to become acquainted with the processes by which the world has accumulated its intellectual wealth, but it is a further prescription...
...Barton, Clark and McCullough, Fanny Brice, the late Bert Williams, Belle Baker, Weber and Fields, David Warfield, Grace La Rue. Often the jokes have been off color; often the robust maidens have been elaborately exposed, so often that burlesque is often considered a rowdy industry. Sam A. Scribner, onetime circus man, fighting for years against unsavory shows, brought his Columbia wheel to a point of considerable respectability. In spite of this (perhaps because of it) profits were inconstant. Burlesque competition, movie competition, changing conditions in the whole amusement business forced changes. Colored shows, straight dramatic shows, strange hybrids he added...
WASHINGTON SPEAKS FOR HIMSELF -Lucretia Perry Osborn-Scribner's ($3.50). Provoked by the flood of so-called biographies of General Washington, Mr. Osborn has joined together the writings of the man himself to the end that Washington may tell his own story. These writings, which include diaries, letters, addresses, state and war papers, have been arranged chronologically by Author Osborn, and connected by concise, impartial passages to facilitate transition from one document to the next. The whole effect is admirable, and the book has at least one advantage over an autobiography in that the element of self-interest...
...TIMES, Vol. 2 (America Finding Herself)-Mark Sullivan?Scribner...
...LLANPEAR PATTERN-Francis B. Biddle-Scribner's ($2). Carl Llanfear, by heredity incapable of achieving his desired escape from the flypaper pattern of the Philadelphia Llanfears, nevertheless wriggles frantically to achieve his separation from the sticky glue of convention in which his innumerable and, to a reader, indistinguishable relatives are contentedly bogged. His marriage serves only to anchor him more deeply in the sticky golden marsh; mild affairs with other women are not sufficient to release him. Finally, even this rebellious but unsturdy member of the rich and quiet tribe lies down reluctantly with the others, forced to derive...