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Handsome new editions, most of them beautifully illustrated, have been published of such classics as ALICE IN WONDERLAND-Boni, Liveright ($3); PINOCCHIO-Macmillan ($5.00); A CONNECTICUT YANKEE AT KING ARTHUR'S COURT-Harper ($2.50); THE PILOT-Minton, Balch ($2.50); THE ARABIAN NIGHTS- Dodd, Mead ($5); THE DEERSLAYER -Scribner's ($2.50); WHEN WE WERE VERY YOUNG-Dutton...
Last summer Colonel McIntyre was in charge of "Wonderland", the Salvation Army's new fresh air camp on Lake Massapoag in Sharon. He is an experienced Salvation Army leader and is among the most prominent officials of the Army in the country...
...American Main Street by careful imitation. Henceforth, the wearied American can find no lotus laden sanctuary. The Old World is imbibing the go-getter philosophy in great draughts; Doctor Frank Crane's volumes are the best American seller in France. Even the Orient, dazzled by magnificent illusions of this wonderland of material prosperity forsakes its tradition of philosophic detachment, and its business men burn the ancestral red fire before the clay-footed idol of Efficiency...
...right out and said: "The government prefers to let business go its own way, so long as that is the right way." And he didn't stop with more assertion. He backed up what he said with proof. Those who didn't believe him could go to "Alice in Wonderland". He made specific references, which really proved that the book in question was "Alice Through the Looking Glass". The Democrats will doubtless make much of his slip. But anyone can see that this is beside the point...
Using figures that curled into space like the tail of the mouse in Alice in Wonderland, Dr. Henry Pratt Fairchild, social economist of New York University, speculated with his hearers upon the world's population at the end of the 20th Century, at the end of 100 centuries...