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Dates: during 1925-1925
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PERSEUS OR OF DRAGONS?H. P. Scott Stokes???Button ($1.00). This latest volume in the Today and Tomorrow Series is perhaps the lightest, but not the least pleasing. It could hardly be called an exhaustive discourse on all dragons, taking up only the early Greek, early Christian, mediaeval and ancient Egyptian species and their variants. But it does succeed in classifying these so that they may be readily recognized if met. Draconist Stokes does not really believe there ever were any dragons. He does not even agree with some scientists that tales of them arose from our forefathers' reminiscences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Tolerance | 8/31/1925 | See Source »

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