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...figure like an English country gentleman-Mr. George H. Doran. There was a firm-jawed, genial Virginian-John Macrae, president of E. P. Button & Co. There was a well-preserved gentleman of some 67 summers, upon whose watch-chain hung a small gold ivy leaf-Arthur Hawley Scribner, who with his older brother Charles has carried on the business begun by their father in 1846. The swarthy gentleman whose dress, manner and accent bespoke the complete cultured cosmopolite was Alfred A. Knopf, master of the coursing Borzoi hound; the handsome lady with him -Mrs. Knopf...
Plans for the publication by Scribner's of the Sunday afternoon addresses given in the Lecture Course in Religion. T. G. Frank 2G., Chairman, are materialising in accordance with the plan outlined by Mr. Shimer in his report for 1924-25, with but slight variations. There has been an average attendance of 138 at these lectures, of which there have been 18 as follows: Professor C. H. Moore, "The Religion of College Men"; Professor G. F. Moore, "Religion, its History"; Professor J. B. Pratt, Williams College, "Religion, Its Psychology"; Professor T. N. Carver, "Religion, Its Basis in Economic Fact"; Professor...
...YOUNG MEN?F. Scott Fitzgerald?Scribner's ($2). The preciosity that glittered in the work of young Mr. Fitzgerald when he used to write exclusively about petting and orange-juice, has acquired a deepening stain of understanding. Princeton's Pierrot, aging, holds Columbine at arm's length and weeps for the world. Sometimes Columbine is not even present...
Arthur Train's book is The Blind Goddess (Scribner's). Kathleen Norris has written this time about English folk, in The Black Flemings (Doubleday, Page). Archibald Marshall collaborated with H. A. Vachell on Mote House Mystery (Dodd, Mead). Patricia Wentworth's latest is The Dower House Mystery (Small, Maynard...
...TIMES: THE TURN OF THE CENTURY, 1900-1904?Mark Sullivan-Scribner's ($5). Here is a book that brings back yesterday-recalls with vividness what our world was, not ages ago, but in the daybreak of today. It is a history of the life and times of the average citizen a quarter century ago, his politics, his fashions in clothes, his advertisements, his economic problems, his popular songs, his heroes and his leaders, his jokes, his prophecies pathetic and otherwise, his medicine and his science, his art, his music and his literature. A unique savor is lent...