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  2. BOOKS OF THE DAY

    LITTLE IS LEFT ABOUT GENERAL MACARTHUR WHICH HAS NOT COME TO light in the glare of publicity of recent weeks. After reading John Gunther's "The Riddle of MacArthur" (Hamish Hamilton) however, it is not surprising that President Truman decided on the course of action he took two months ago and ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  3. RIVER of ROMANCE

    HOW MANY AUSTRALIANS, VISITING THE MOTHER COUNTRY THIS YEAR, WILL PAUSE FOR A while beside the noble Thames to pay tribute to the incalculable part the river has played in making England truly great? Stripling Thames; Father ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,121 words
  4. CAULDRON of COMACHO

    IF EVER I CHANCE TO MEET MR. SAMUEL PEPYS, AND IF HE IS IN A mood to be bothered with the likes of me, I have two questions to ask him, "Since," I shall begin, "you were so desperately anxious that nobody should read what you had written, why, during the long years that followed the closing ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  5. Novelist with a Mission

    THE CHIEF CHARACTERISTIC OF LITERATURE IN THE VICTORIAN AGE was the novel with a purpose, which sought to instruct or unlift society by its message. Few understood so well how to use the novel, as a vehicle for popularising of ideas as did Mrs. Humphry Ward, whose great success ...

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  6. "America's Walter Scott": Life of Fenimore Cooper

    IT MAY NOT BE VERY REMARKABLE FOR A MAN TO TURN TO NOVEL WRITING from sheer disgust with current literature but that his subsequent novels should achieve fame and more than a century of readability must surely be noteworthy. Such Was the honor which befell ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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