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Shortly thereafter came scintillant Cecelia Gertrude Shere, waving dark locks, out of the West in quest of fame...
...Poor Gentleman' is a breathless tale, with many a sudden twist and hair-raising moment. The Shrewd ways by which Captain Shere overcame his handicap, for example, that gruesome life-or-death fight in the dark, when the blind man meets him on even terms, and the manner in which he turned it often to advantage in his contest with his able, if treacherous, adversaries are thrilling incidents in a story that Major Beith has told in his finest...
...Wyckoff. Manhattanites were surprised last week upon learning that this name does not belong to a brother, cousin, nephew, uncle or any other blood relation of Richard D. Wyckoff, the financial writer who founded the magazine in 1907. The name is that of his wife- Cecelia Gertrude (Shere) Wyckoff. The secret came out with news that Mr. Wyckoff had sold to Mrs. Wyckoff for $500,000 his minority holding in the publication, which she had built up from 1,500 to 73,000 circulation...
...etchings by Seymour Haden, the "Shere Mill Pond" and "Sunset in Ireland" are particularly beautiful impressions of favorite plates of this famous English surgeon-artist...