Studies in literature and other books about books reviewed
A brisk overview praises Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch's Studies in literature for its lively, life oriented approach to books and writers. It surveys works by Grant Overton Howard Willard Cooke Montrose Moses and others, noting their biographical detail and critical aims.
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Putnam
Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
Cambridge University
Arthur
Coleridge
Matthew Arnold
Swinburne
George Meredith
Thomas Hardy
Charles Reade
Grant M. Overton
Howard Willard Cooke
Moffat
Yard
America
K. Overton
Edith Wharton
Anna Katharine Green
Margaret Deland
Gene Stratton-Porter
Mary Wilkins Freeman
Edna Ferber
Mr. Overton
Mrs. Wharton
Mary Wilkine Freeman
New Books Offer Lasting Value for Readers
A catalog of upcoming titles highlights diverse works from biographies to language guides and natural history. Notable entries include a 600 page life and history volume priced at $5.00, a comprehensive English usage handbook at $1.60, and Brelliar’s insect primer illustrated in color at $1.60.
Nerve Control and How to Gain It
Book review for Nerve Control and How to Gain It by Hf. Addington Bruce. Explains health giving nerve control, diet, habits, exercise, and remedies for irritability insomnia worry timidity and related nervous disorders. Cloth bound price 1.00 net by mail 1.12. Samuel McComb endorses the work for the worried and overstrained.
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Hf. Addington Bruce
Bruce Torites
Samuel McComb
The Unsound Mind and the Law
A valuable forensic psychiatry book by an expert surveys mental abnormality types and responsibility levels. It covers jurisprudence relations to treatment and restraint, diagnosis methods, hypnosis, sexual anomalies, and how opinions should be rendered. Cloth bound, $3.00 net, $3.16 by mail. For sale nationwide.
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Dr. Lewellys F. Barker
Baltimore
Into the Sky They Soared in Victory Calls
Poem describes riders and voices rising above the town as war dawns, with imagery of lightning wings, spiraling ascent, and a vow that glory has begun even as dreams wait. The piece frames war as a dawn of change and future homecomings for weary men.
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Heaven
Br Grace Hazard Conkling
Australians Would Internationalize Islands
NEW YORK Jan. 31 Australians feel the Marshall and Caroline islands should come under international control rather than be joined to Japan. Thomas Joseph Ryan premier of Queensland said before sailing on the liner Caronia for Liverpool that immigration must be restricted to the white race despite Japan moving troops.
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New York
Marshall and
Caroline Islands
Japan
Thomas Joseph Ryan
Queensland
London
Caronia
Liverpool
Chinatown Welcomes New Year Festivities and Returnees
Chinatown marks Chinese New Year with a two week festival led by Yee Wah and a first gun salute near 9 Oxford Place. The event features a renowned Chinese band, banquets, and prominent attendees including Governor Coolidge, Mayor Peters, Police officials, and District Attorney Pelletier. Many celebrate amid festive decorations as war veterans return home and local business prospers.
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Yee Wah
Uncle Sam
East
Chicago
China
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Confucius
Chinese Business Men's Association
Coolidge
Peters
Curtis
Michael H. Crowley
Pelletier
Former Post Man Armes Joins Overseas Educational Work
Lieutenant Henry Lyman Armes of the Boston Post sails with President Warren Foster and a committee from the Community Motion Picture Bureau to supervise overseas branches serving soldiers and sailors. Armes, discharged January 3, joins new educational efforts in England and France.
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Warren Dunham Foster
Community Motion Picture Bureau
England
France
Armes
New York
A. H. Brunner
W.H. Patterson
Philadelphia
Thomas A. Pye
Pittsburg
John T. Benning
Wilkesbarre
A. Gil Spear
Henry L. Armes
Boston
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Bureau
J. D. Sears
War Department
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Bayside
Long Island
A. Herbert Armes
Londonderry
N. H
Nashua
Fitchburg
Mass
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Dartmouth Press Club
Jack O’ Lantern
Aegis
Iss
Harvard Unit Given Alibi
Washington January 81 Apparent refusal of officers in charge of a Harvard University surgical unit to obey War Department orders to demobilize at Camp Devens and New York was blamed on mistaken identity Two units were formed at Harvard one serving with the British army and the other attached to British forces under American surgeon general authority The unit that arrived in Boston had been mustered out by British authorities
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Harvard University
Boston
War Department
Camp Devens
New York
Harvard
Wife seeks separate support amid claims of neglect at West End home
Maggie A. Whittier testifies that George W. Whittier of Boston furnished towels from hotels and restaurants for their home at 7 Goodwin Street, while she and their 18 year old daughter May lack suitable clothing and shelter. She alleges fault in living conditions and threats over a wheelchair for May. Judge Prest to rule.
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Adams
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Goodwin Place
May
Back Bay
Y M C A Drive in Boston Seeks 174000 in War Debt Payoff
L Wilbur Messer Chicago Y M C A general secretary urged Boston supporters to back the drive to raise 174000 to settle war debts and fund an expanded program while local volunteers report weak response and uncertain success.
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Boston Y. M. C. A
L. Wilbur Messer
Chicago Y. M. C. A
ER man who tipped Packers
Washington January 31 The Senate agriculture committee struggled to identify the person who sent Swift and Co advance information on government actions affecting the meat packing industry. In a separate hearing the House interstate commerce committee was told by the Federal Trade Commission that it would provide witnesses whose testimony supported charges of collusion among the five big packing firms.
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Washington
Senate Agriculture Committee
Swift & Co
House Interstate Commerce Committee
Federal Trade Commission
Tax Payments Bring Deficit Down in Boston Year Start
Taxes paid on the last day totaled 278 000 with 244 000 from taxes and the rest from special assessments. Weekly receipts show 1918 uncollected taxes at 6 000 000, up 1 500 000 from last year. Boston Consolidated Gas paid 180 000 to erase a 330 000 assessment. key real estate interests and the Boston Elevated were slow to respond. The anticipated loan will be about 700 000 instead of 750 000.
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Boston Consolidated Gas Company
Boston Elevated Railroad Company
Government denies plans to flood hardwood market
Washington January 31 The Government has no intention of selling surplus hardwood stocks in a way that harms the lumber industry. Richard J L Humphrey of the War Industries Board says hardwood stools are small and a plan to dispose them is being considered in cooperation with the lead.
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Washington
Richard JL. Humphrey
War Industries Board
Humphrey
Y M C A Campaign Faces Shortfall Amid Slow Donations
Mr. Messer warned that social decay threatens democracy while praising the Y M C A as crucial to reconstruction. Boston fund drive reports only 3512 today, with 89140 raised in five days and a projected 50000 shortfall if trends continue, prompting noonday lunches suspension and intensified fund-raising through Tuesday.
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Messer
Boston Y. M. C. A
Boat breaks up in storm near Deal
The American steamer Piave went ashore near Deal Wednesday night and sank in a fierce storm with blinding snow. It is a total loss and several lives are feared. Two boats capsized but occupants were rescued by a lifeboat. Thirty crew members have been landed at Deal. Most of the crew are believed rescued by nearby tugs and patrol boats, with American officers possibly saved.
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Deal
Eng
Swift and Veeder Questioned Over Diamond T Letter in FTC Probe
Senate investigators questioned Louis Swift and Henry Veeder of Swift & Co about a Diamond T letter and other unsigned memoranda linked to plans for the Federal Trade Commission and Hoover era food administration. They denied prior knowledge of the Diamond T correspondence.
Bowditch to Speak on Canadian Tommy in Training
John P. Bowditch will address the Special Aid Society for American Preparedness at its headquarters 377 Boylston Street on Monday afternoon. The talk centers on a Canadian Tommy in Training and the society's preparedness efforts.
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Tommy
John P. Bowditch
Special Aid Society For American Preparedness
Boylston Street
Hayes Healing Honey Ad Offers Free Salve with Bottle
Advertising a throat healing honey by Hayes promises a cure for coughs and throat irritations. Each bottle includes a free box of Pen o Trate Salve for chest and head colds, priced at 85 cents.
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