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...Popular Mechanics" is now a sharer in the glory of the "Cosmopolitan" and the "Transcript" in that it receives attention to the extent of a copious special number of the Lampoon. To the unmechanically inclined reader there must be satisfaction in finding here the realization of many of his most impractical dreams, and genial and often pointed scoffing at the more obvious foibles of one of the chief ornaments of our newsstands. Whether the devoted reader of "Popular Mechanics" who has for years compounded folding beds out of hen houses by following the directions in his favorite periodical, will...
...somehow, as a whole, the number is not likely to achieve the recognition of the "Transcript" Lampoon, or the earlier but never-to-be-forgotten issue devoted to the Boston papers. This is not due, we may fancy, to any deficiencies in this year's board, but rather to the limited opportunity offered by the subject of this latest Lampoon. There is too little variety--after all when one has amusingly pictured and described a "Practical Canary Bird Feeder," or has devised a "Combination Comb and Worm Kit," one has sufficiently treated the usual contributions to "Popular Mechanics." To fill...
...slang of a new synonym for a cunning falsehood. For on every man-of-war and at every shore station today, officers and men know that to tell a "Daniels" is to tell a falsehood with such cunning as to stand a good chance of not being caught. Boston Transcript...
...present. Professor Herbert Eugene Bolton of the University of California, who comes to trace, for the benefit of Lowell Institute audiences, the expansion of the Spanish empire in America, is an authority in a branch of American history which perhaps has not received the attention which it merits. Boston Transcript...
...first is that the East does not have any particular advantage over the West or the South as regards interest in Harvard. The Massachusetts and New York percentages--32 and 31--are high, but so are those of Illinois (81), Wisconsin and Arkansas (35) and Missouri (32). Boston Transcript...