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...gates of Buckingham Palace will swing open one day this week for a taxi bearing a 9½-lb. tome that to many Englishmen-particularly those whose names do not figure in its 3,088 pages-seems as monumentally irrelevant to postwar Britain as the Domesday Book. To scholars, snobs, statusticians and society hostesses, nonetheless, the 103rd and fattest-ever edition of Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage is an invaluable, intriguing gazetteer to the proliferating aristocracy...
...Association of Blauvelt Descendants and sold at $30 a copy, was the work of a quiet and patient man named Louis L. Blauvelt. By occupation he was a skilled General Electric toolmaker in Bloomfield, N.J. By preoccupation he was the family historian-and he spent 35 years compiling his tome. He recognized the possibility of error in his preface. Wrote he: "There no doubt will be errors in this work. For the most part these will be the fault of imperfect information that has come to me from one source or another. For this I cannot be blamed, unless...
...published in 1766 called Histoire Naturelle du Fraisier (Natural History of the Strawberry Plant). Sure enough, after shelling out $500 for a surety bond, the library got it from the New York Botanical Gardens. Wallace hopes to incorporate some of the book's sketches into a last-word tome he himself is writing on the history of the plant. "It will be a nice colorplate job," he said, "that will be sure to lose money...
...Center will also award two Venezuelan Doctoral Research Fellowships for the academic year 1962-63. Holders of these grants, open to all graduate students at Harvard and M.I.T., will write a dissertation relating to the development of the Orinoco-Caroni region of Southern Venezuela and its new city, Santo Tome de Guayana. For this purpose they will receive a stipend of $5,500 plus travel and cost of living allowances while residing in Venezuela...
...Trace's censorious tome is eristic and demands further inquiry. His proclivity to comparing U.S.S.R. word count with U.S. vocabulary at the elementary grades is pure gallimaufry...