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“Always the reader feels that the volume is the result of a fullness
of rare knowledge which enables its author to pick and choose as he
lists, with the calm certainty that whatever he writes will bear the
stamp not only of literary artistry, but of absolute originality.”
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Beginning with the first mention of “oil out of the flinty rock” in
Deuteronomy and the ancients’ acquaintance with it in the earliest
historical records, the book shows that petroleum is a comparatively
new agent for the service of mankind and the latest of earth’s riches
man has learned to adapt to his needs. The development of the
industry is described from the boring of the first well in 1859 to the
present time. The book is illustrated and the contents are: Petroleum
in history and legend; What is petroleum? Dawn of America’s
petroleum industry; Founder of the petroleum industry; Petroleum
as a world industry; Locating the oil well; Drilling the oil well;
Collecting and transporting crude: the pipe line; Refining and
manufacturing petroleum products; Petroleum and other industries;
Petroleum on the seven seas; Petroleum in the great war; America’s
investment in petroleum; Petroleum in the future.
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Beginning with a description of old Boston, by the way of a
foreword, the author invites the reader to accompany her on a trip
along the earliest of the great roads in New England, the old coast
road, connecting Boston with Plymouth. We are asked to travel
comfortably “picking up what bits of quaint lore and half-forgotten
history we most easily may.” The trip is charmingly reminiscent—a
pleasure trip into history and old traditions, as the table of contents
reveals: Dorchester Heights and the old coast road; Milton and the
Blue hills; Shipbuilding at Quincy; The romance of Weymouth;
Ecclesiastical Hingham; Cohasset ledges and marshes; The Scituate
shore; Marshfield, the home of Daniel Webster; Duxbury homes;
Kingston and its manuscripts; Plymouth. The illustrations and
chapter vignettes are by Louis H. Ruyl.
Reviewed by W. A. Dyer
“If one would journey down the old coast road from Boston to
Plymouth, he will do well to choose Agnes Edwards for his guide. He
will find each stage of his journey possessed of an individual charm.”
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The book comes under the “Survey and exhibit series” edited by
Shelby M. Harrison and gives a review of the educational activities
carried on in recent years by means of modern transportation
facilities, i.e. “the putting of exhibits, demonstrations, motion
pictures and other campaigning equipment on railroad trains, trolley
cars, and motor trucks so that they may tour a whole city, a country,
or cross a continent.” (Editor’s preface) Contents: Purposes and
advantages of traveling campaigns; How trains have been used in
campaigning; Campaigning with motor vehicles; Advance publicity
and organization; The message of the tour; Exhibit cars; The tour of
the truck or train; Follow-up work; Appendix, bibliography, index
and illustrations.
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The story turns about the smuggling of war loot in the form of
jewelry and antiques. The chief smuggler—a sufficiently bona fide
dealer in the above articles, is ostensibly out to discover and expose
the gang. He engages the wrong person to do his chief spying in
Captain Phineas Plunkett, who finds out more than he is expected to.
But Karakoff although the chief of the gang is not one of them and
repudiates their methods. He has nothing to do with the gun play
and clubbings and killings that go on in the story, throws the whole
thing over when he realizes the dirty mess he has let himself in for
and makes ample restitution for his loot. Of the two women of the
story, Karakoff’s daughter Olga is a beautiful artless child, whose
rescuer Phineas becomes on two occasions, and finally her lover. The
other, a devil woman par excellence, looks like a fairy, wrestles like a
pugilist, dares unspeakable things, poses as a secret service agent but
is really a thief and a crook in league with the Apaches of Paris.
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comprehensive work by Mr Gaston, it is none the less a valuable
account of a movement that has been much misrepresented in the
public press.”
“Mr Russell’s defense of the league’s attitude during the war is the
best that can be put forward, and it is put forward by a sincere
patriot who risked and suffered much for his loyalty. But the country
has made up its mind on that point, and his defense, honest as it is, is
unconvincing.”
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“She has a better talent for the abstract than for the concrete; her
analyses are better than her discussions of actual examples. The
reader learns much from her pages by gleaning over wide territory,
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alluring byways and leafy vistas. Names and ideas spin by like
telephone poles. The author has a nice ear for the turn of a sentence,
but she cannot train sentences to speak together.”
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“She succeeds in rousing our sympathy for the poor working girls
of Dublin, and the other unfortunate people of the city and the bog-
field. But when she takes up the political, she seems unable to do
justice to her subject. There is no doubt Miss Russell’s intentions are
good, but it is doubtful if such books as this will help Ireland’s
cause.”
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“The six lectures are not only worthy of their academic auspices
but might well serve as models of modern academic exposition. They
have the breadth and insight that is properly called philosophic,
whatever the subject-matter may be, and the concreteness that
makes a philosophic treatment glow with interest.”
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“For his first novel, Hjalmar Rutzebeck has wisely chosen a hero of
his own race and temperament. He attains a consistent realism by
letting Svend Norman’s diaries and letters tell their own story.”
“The simplicity and directness with which the author tells his
blood-stirring story, even the occasional crudities in his English,
serve to enhance rather than mar the epic quality of his narrative.”
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block of femininity. This will please readers of poetry of the hour. For
the present vogue is fragmentary. Many of these poems are trivial
and unimportant, but a few have the eloquence of reality.”
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