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There are those admirers of Miss Sinclair who recall the days of The Divine Fire and Mary Olivier with regret and find in them their favorite work of this novelist; but, for me, the foolery of Mr. Waddington of Wyck, the perfection of detail in Ann Severn and the Fieldings, the devastating character portrayal of A Cure of Souls seem more intensely original, more characteristic of her and of her time...
William Johnston, whose new mystery novel. "The Waddington Cipher." (Doubleday, Page & Co.), is the first story that has ever been serialized over the radio, holds a unique newspaper position as suggestion editor or official idea man to the New York World. His work is to anticipate public interest--to guess what will interest newspaper readers, not only today, but tomorrow and next week. This position with no detail duties and freedom to scout all over the world for suggestions that will add interest to any department of the paper, has shaped itself out of the variety of new ideas that...
...January 10, by the invitation of the college authorities, a sitting was held at Cambridge of the Seventh Congress of the National Society of French Professors residing in Engiand. M. Waddington, the French Ambassador, presided. In his address, M. Waddington said that last year the society had met at Oxford by invitation of that university. He hoped the language which the society represented would soon be placed on a par with the classics. The modern school had not yet taken the position it deserved, and Moliere and Goethe should be studied by the side of Euripides and Sophocles...
...these races there were 870 survivors residing in Great Britain two years ago, besides others who could not be traced. Many of these had become clergyman, several reaching the position of bishops. The legal profession also absorbed many, justices of the English bench being among this number. Mr. Waddington, ex-premier of France, rowed in 1849, and Dr. Hornby, headmaster of Eton, in the same year, Mr. W. Spottiswood, president of the Royal Society, is also a 'Varsity Crew man. Altogether the list of intellectual oarsmen from Oxford and Cambridge is remarkable and speaks well for the great institution...
...French Senate yesterday M. Waddington declared that the republic was threatened by nobody, and had nothing to fear except the faults it might itself commit...