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...Abraham Lincoln-A Cartoon History by Albert Shaw-Review of Reviews (2 vol. $8). *Dr. Shaw opines that smooth-shaven men of words tended to grow beards when they felt action (the Civil War) approaching...
...picture of "Mister Speaker" frontispiecing Vol. XIV, No. 25 (Dec. 16, 1929) is not TIMEWORTHY...
...Significance. Author Hackett's Henry is immense. Others who have written biographically of the gigantic, simpleminded, "red-tempered," go-getter king include: Froude (hero worship in magnificent prose); Gasquet (colored with religious emotion); H. A. L. Fisher (fairly, in The Political History of England, vol. 6). And there is the monumental Letters and Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII, 21 vols., a work of 50 years, deep mine of source material. Author Hackett used these and many another book and record. He worked on his biography over a period of six years. It has the best of material (perhaps...
SiriSn No. 16, Vol. XII of your most excellent magazine I find under the heading Leprosy Missionaries" a highly interesting item about the treatment of this malady...
...DECLINE OF THE WEST-Vol. II-Perspectives of World History-Oswald Spengler-Translated from the German by Charles Francis Atkinson-Knopf...