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...business of issuing patents became a bit too onerous a sideline for statesmen. The Patent Office* was created and began to number the patents it issued. Between 1836 and 1893 ?57 years???500,000 patents were counted out; between 1893 and 1911?18 years???another 500,000 patents were granted. Last week?13 years since the 1,000,000th patent was granted?the 1,500,000th was issued...
...tree is known by its fruits; not by the showy flowers of promise or the occasional defect in bud or branch, but by the normal harvest through the running of the years???and the harvest of the Republican party and leadership is faithfully reflected in the matchless growth and fadeless glory of the Republic...
JAMES JOYCE: HIS FIRST FORTY YEARS???Herbert S. Gorman?Huebsch ($2.00). A critique of the "most-talked-about man in modern letters" by an admirer who has abandoned the usual claptrap for eloquent and intelligent exposition. It is lucid and comprehensible. One need not necessarily be won over to Mr. Gorman's enthusiasm for Ulysses in order to pay tribute to the competence of this book...
Compulsory segregation does not, however, in actual practice always kill leprosy, for two reasons: 1) lepers hide themselves at home; 2) the disease has an extraordinarily long incubation period?sometimes 15 or 20 years???during which time the incipient leper may be infecting others...
...soon as I saw her (this was ten years ago, by the way) I had that curious feeling that there was something of destiny in the incident. . . . Well, it didn't take me long to get an introduction. . . . For quite a while? several years???I lived in another city, and did not see her often. . . . Yet even when she was inaccessible it gave me pleasure to think about her existence. . . . From time to time I sent her some odd trifle or curio that I hoped might please her; at first she returned them, faintly reproving, but with so calm...