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Robert Bridges, Editor of Scribner's Magazine Litt.D...
...George Ellery Hale, director of the Mt. Wilson Observatory, writing in Scribner's Magazine (June), tells what is now known about sun spots. Sun spots are believed to be (though no astronomer is certain about it) regions of incandescent gas on the sun's surface, whirling with a centrifugal motion. Although they are really brighter and hotter than the most powerful electric light, they are so much cooler than the 'body of the sun itself, that they appear to us as dark spots. They move in very definite cycles of eleven years and one month. Starting...
LAST ESSAYS OF MAURICE HEWLETT ?Scribner ($2.50). That rare combination of quiet humor and penetrating wisdom which was Hewlett in his earlier years, grew with the man into a rich, mellowed roundness, here shown at its smooth and polished best. The quiet of the little Wiltshire village where he spent his latter days seems to have crept into his writing, giving it a leisured charm which recalls the 18th Century essayists. Yet withal, he can cock an interested and appreciative eye at the doings of quite alien spirits, and can write with gusto about the Cardinal de Retz, that...
...WRITE SHORT STORIES (WITH SAMPLES)?Ring Lardner ? Scribner ($2.00). Ring Lardner is experiencing the difficult honor of being overpraised by those zealous critics whose word of endorsement is death to ambition. Adored by H. L. Mencken, Gilbert Seldes and F. P. Awood Broun, he will need all his humor and poise to keep from showing off. Thus far he has succeeded. The delightful thing about this book of short stories is not the amusing burlesque framework, ridiculing those textbooks that offer to teach illiterate soda-clerks to earn $25,000 in the writing business...
...Phelps p. 1 0 0 0 0 0 Total 37 13 13 27 11 4 Brown 1927 Maybie r.f., p. 3 0 0 2 1 0 N. R. Brown 3b. 3 0 1 1 1 2 Douglas 1b. 4 0 0 10 0 3 Scribner l.f. 4 0 1 1 0 0 Pemberton c.f. 3 0 0 2 0 0 Jaworek 2b. 4 0 1 1 1 1 Good s.s. 1 0 0 2 2 0 Brown s.s 1 0 1 0 0 1 Schaaf c. 4 0 1 5 1 1 McGeeney...