New Books and Current Magazines Highlight Classics and Authors
A survey of recent Putnam publications praises Grace G Niles The Hoosac Valley Its Legends and Its History for restoring living history. It reviews Bosher Pollard and Pocock works plus a Connoisseur Library volume on Fine Books and notes writers such as Mary Raymond Andrews and Roger Pocock shaping period fiction and literary adaptations.
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Grace G. Niles
Hoosac Valley
Putnam
Bobbs-Merrill Company
Indianapolis
Edwin Mordant
Roger Pocock
Mordant
Dickens
Faust
Goethe
Lena Ashwell
Pocock
Nams
Alfred W. Pollard
The
Athenaeum
Pollard
Imagination as Personal Charm Says Irene Fenwick
Princess Irene Fenwick extols imagination as a life force aiding romance and resilience. She describes how vision sharpens daily life and sustains charm amid modern grind, urging young women to cultivate inner worlds and personal fantasy.
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Irene Fenwick
Princess Irene Fenwick
Hawthorne
New York
Princess Irene
Miss Fenwick
You
Fenwick
Mr. Fairbanks
Mary’s Lamb Real Life Tale Probed in Massachusetts
Mrs. L W Owens of Pueblo Colorado traveled 2000 miles to Sterling Massachusetts to verify the Mary Sawyer tale behind the nursery verse. She confirms a real Mary owned a lamb that was taken to school, later died in a Thanksgiving accident, with John Roulstone the poet gaining his inspiration.
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Boston
Mary
L. W. Owens
Pueblo
Colo
Massachusetts
John Roulstone
Mary and the Lamb
Samuel Capen
Sterling
Lamb
Worcester
Mary Sawyer
Taylor
Harvard
Rebekah Kimball
Nat
Wireless Lunch: A Paris Scientist and the Electric Diet
A comic poem recounts Professor Bergonie claiming 1000 volts equals a porterhouse with chips, and a series of lunching workers and a lineman, a broker, and a sailor who survive on wireless currents. The verse blends whimsy with industrial imagery and lunchtime humor.
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Bergonie
Paris
Mammoth Cave Breathes Like A Living World
Mammoth Cave Kentucky is described as a living system with annual breathing. Summers drive air out as external heat rises above 54 degrees, while winters draw air in when outside falls below 54. The cave lacks day night variation and shows constant temperature with stable gas composition and minimal moisture.
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Mammoth Cave
Charles W. Wright
Father
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