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Author Peattie has not been content merely to sketch the lives and achievements of his heroes; a consciously literary writer and a conscious naturalist, he plugs in many a purple passage, many a first-hand observation of Nature. Readers may be either awed, captivated or annoyed by his literary airs, but many a city-dweller who cannot tell the birds from the wild flowers will find his naturalistic enthusiasm contagious...
...week and whipped a band of shadow across Asia (TIME, June 22), the foremost U. S. specialist on solar radiation, Astrophysicist Charles Greeley Abbot of the Smithsonian Institution, was in Rochester, N. Y. showing members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science a cartoon of himself. The sketch: big-mustached, ponderous Dr. Abbot sitting atop California's Mount Wilson with an "Abbot sun and moon measurer," while a little bear points to a Hollywood constellation of stars among which a chunky one represents Mae West...
People who can afford Hardy trout-rods and Purdy shotguns can afford books like this. In fact, 25 such persons may spend $125 each for a leather-bound autographed copy of Artist Hunt's sketch book and put it away for their grandsons to look at when buffleheads, woodcock, black-breasted plover, wild turkeys and the like are extinct. Artist Hunt is the man who makes animal stories look so attractive in fiction magazines. This volume testifies eloquently that he, like Etcher Frank Benson, has gone to nature for his learning, really knows his game. The publisher will somewhat...
...Sketch wanted by a professional. Marguerite Miller, 48 Lombard Terrace, Arlington...
...little body had fallen into the edge of a pond or puddle and been covered quickly with protecting sand. No attempt will be made to reassemble the skeleton as no wire fine enough for the job is available. Drawings will be made of each separate bone and then a sketch done of the skeleton as it would look if assembled. Finally the creature will be assigned a name, probably from the Latin or Greek words for "sharp teeth...