Books and BipedsArgus Books, 1947 - 258 pages "In a word, 'Books and Bipeds' is for the most part a selection of paragraphs from my weekly book column in the "Chicago Sunday Tribune'..." -- foreword. |
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Page 128
... Sherlock Holmes , except by indirection , an interregnum occasioned by a re- mark made by Prof. James Taft Hatfield , the Longfellow specialist . Prof. Hatfield wondered if I didn't talk too much about Sherlock Holmes . With quiet ...
... Sherlock Holmes , except by indirection , an interregnum occasioned by a re- mark made by Prof. James Taft Hatfield , the Longfellow specialist . Prof. Hatfield wondered if I didn't talk too much about Sherlock Holmes . With quiet ...
Page 150
... Sherlock Holmes . His stunning black and white drawings of the detective began to appear in Col- lier's , as I recall it , in 1903 , when the series of ad- ventures known as The Return of Sherlock Holmes was first published in this ...
... Sherlock Holmes . His stunning black and white drawings of the detective began to appear in Col- lier's , as I recall it , in 1903 , when the series of ad- ventures known as The Return of Sherlock Holmes was first published in this ...
Page 156
... Sherlock Holmes : Bachelor or Widower ? It has been suggested by a woman , of course -that Sherlock Holmes was not a bachelor , as the world has long supposed ; not incontestably , at any rate . He may , thinks Miss Esther Longfellow ...
... Sherlock Holmes : Bachelor or Widower ? It has been suggested by a woman , of course -that Sherlock Holmes was not a bachelor , as the world has long supposed ; not incontestably , at any rate . He may , thinks Miss Esther Longfellow ...
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