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THE CRIMSON BOOKSHELF

JOTS AND TITLES

"Liberty and the News" will be the title of a new book by Walter Lippmann '10, now in publication by Harcourt, Brace and Howe. Mr. Lippmann is well known as the author of two recent books, "Preface to Politics" and "The Stakes of Diplomacy."

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Owen Wister '82 is the author of a brief introduction to "Caught by the Turks," a thrilling narrative of war-time adventures as told by Captain Francis Yates-Brown and published by the Macmillan Company. Captain Yates-Brown relates the story of his three years' imprisonment at the hands of the "terrible Turk" with a vigor which Mr. Wister finds indicative of further talent.

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One more volume, the eighteenth, has now been added to the Variorum Shakespeare, with the completion by Horace Howard Furness '88, of the manuscript for King John. The last volume is reported to have taken more time in preparation than any other in the set edited by the late Horace Howard Furness, Sr., '54, and his son, and published by Lippincott Company.

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Professor George Pierce Baker '87 is editing a collection of "Modern American Plays" to be brought out shortly by Harcourt, Brace and Howe.

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