Word: stevenson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Birthdays. Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (81-see below); Louis Dembitz Brandeis (75); Thomas Hitchcock...
...late Robert Louis Stevenson, suave preceptor, warned youths & maidens against taking a literary mate. Like a frenetic footnote to that polished advice comes Grace Hegger Lewis's case-history, Half A Loaf. Divorced from her famed husband Sinclair Lewis six years ago, Authoress Lewis has spent part of the interim preparing to heave her stone, which hits more birds than perhaps she meant...
Among the valuable books in the library is a copy of John Hall Stevenson's "Crazy Tales," of which there are believed to be only three copies in the United States. Several early editions are also in the possession of the House, including Hooker's "Ecclesiastical Polity" and Sir Walter Raleigh's "History of the World...
Manxmen mind their deemsters. Obsolete except on Great Britain's minute Isle of Man, deemsters are medieval judges-of-all-work. They hear actions and criminal cases of every sort, preside over Manx Grand Juries. Proudly last week Manxmen gathered to hear the outlandish swearing-in of Deemster Stevenson More. Deemster More, great and most respected antique of the Manx Bench, has been in retirement for ten years. Emerging last week, he was installed as sole deemster of one-half the Isle of Man. Richly and roundly he swore upon Holy Bible this mouth-filling Manx oath...
...Author has enriched his pages with painstaking scholarship, has attained some of the flavor of the historical novels of Scott and Stevenson. But only in the last chapters of The Blanket oj the Dark does his story drop its studious tempo, achieve the needed breathlessness of cloak-&-sword drama. Aged 55, John Buchan served in the War as London Times correspondent and as intelligence officer, has written a capable history of it. He lives at Oxford, serves as Member of Parliament besides writing and publishing. Says he: "I have to live on a very strict schedule. From Monday to Friday...