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...Kalgoorlie, Australia, she read Kipling's Just-So Stories???"Old Man Kangaroo" and "Yellow Dog Dingo"?to her two sons. For years Kipling was their favorite and many a long trip was eased by repetitions of the doings of the 'Stute Fish, the Elephant's Child, and Mr. One-Two-Three- Where's-My-Breakfast...
...Significance. The book is dry narrative. But it is interesting because it sets forth one of the most absorbing of stories???the incredible picture of 19th Century imperialism. The British colonized Africa under an impulse that seemed to spring equally from the mission societies, the British Museum, the trading companies, and to be carried on with a classic casualness. Johnston first met Cecil Rhodes at a bachelor dinnerparty in London. The two sat up all night discussing a new scheme for colonization in central Africa; when they parted the next morning Rhodes had given Johnston a check...
...SINGING BONE? R. Austin Freeman?Dodd Mead ($1.75). Four short detective stories???the first three told from an unusual point of view, for one first follows the criminal through the commission of his crime and then traces out the clues that lead to his detection. The detective concerned specializes in microscopy and captures one canny villain from the infinitesimal evidence offered by the hair of a camel. Among the best of this year's crop of Sherlockings...
...Author. Herbert George Wells is, probably, the best known living writer of English. The list of his published books includes over 50 titles? novels?books of short stories??? fantastic and imaginative romances?books on social, religious...
...GENTLEMEN FROM SAN FRANCISCO AND OTHER STORIES???I. A. Bunin?Seltzer ($1.50). The title story of this volume (translated from the Russian) relates the grim history of an American millionaire who has made his money and in company with his wife and daughter travels expensively all over the south of Europe. He has the best of service and accommodations; but the weather is always bad, and he doesn't find the expected enjoyment. At Capri he is stricken with mortal illness. At once the hotel manager loses his politeness, hustles the body into a cheap coffin, and it is carried...