1 “The Greene Murder Case” (Scribners, 1928). [↩︎]
2 Mr. Joseph A. Margolies of Brentano’s told me that for a period of several weeks during the Bishop murder case more copies of “Mother Goose Melodies” were sold than of any current novel. And one of the smaller publishing houses reprinted and completely sold out an entire edition of those famous old nursery rhymes. [↩︎]
3 The book Vance referred to was that excellent and comprehensive treatise, “Archery,” by Robert P. Elmer, M.D. [↩︎]
4 “The Benson Murder Case” (Scribners, 1926). [↩︎]
5 “The ‘Canary’ Murder Case” (Scribners, 1927). [↩︎]
6 Though Laplace is best known for his “Méchanique Céleste,” Vance was here referring to his masterly work, “Théorie Analytique des Probabilités,” which Herschel called “the ne plus ultra of mathematical skill and power.” [↩︎]
7 Heath was referring to Doctor Emanuel Doremus, the Chief Medical Examiner of New York. [↩︎]
8 The book referred to by Professor Dillard was the great work which appeared two years later, “The Atomic Structure of Radiant Energy,” a mathematical emendation of Planck’s quantum theory refuting the classical axiom of the continuity of all physical processes, as contained in Maximus Tyrius’ Οὐδὲ ἐνταῦθα ἡ φύσις μεταπηδᾷ ἀθρόως. [↩︎]
9 The American chess master—sometimes confused with Doctor Emanuel Lasker, the former world champion. [↩︎]
10 Mae Brenner will still be remembered by Continental music lovers. Her début was made at the unprecedented age of twenty-three as Sulamith in “Die Königin von Saba” at the Imperial Opera House in Vienna; although her greatest success was perhaps her Desdemona in “Otello”—the last rôle she sang before her retirement. [↩︎]