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ANGEL-Du Bose Heyward- Doran ($2). Liquor, religion and love all come hard in the Great Smokies. Poet Heyward, who summers there, has tried a distillation of these three, achieving a glorious color but not much kick. Angel Thornley, the hillbilly preacher's girl, bathes at misty dawn beneath a rainbowed waterfall. Her father sets the sheriff on her lover, Buck Merritt, moonshiner, and marries her off to a mountaineer to make her an honest woman. After several years of cussing and slamming the door of their shack, the mountaineer blows himself up working on a road gang. Buck...
...bring Kammerer to England for a hearing. He had worked unrecognized for 20 years, and since the war his salary has been approximately $150 a year. He was on the point of being forced to give up his researches when the invitation came. Professors G. H. F. Nuttall and Thornley Gardner, of Cambridge, together with a number of other eminent men, have given prompt and generous acceptance to the Austrian's work, and some have called it the greatest biological discovery of the present century. Conservative scholars, however, are demanding more conclusive proof...
Ward, C W, 12 Thornley street, Dorchester...