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“As a treatise, Prof. Turner’s book loses something from being a compilation of articles and addresses, but it makes an excellent general presentation of a subject which is insufficiently understood by the average American, yet is so fascinating that any reader will be thankful to have it brought to his attention.”
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“The book is highly suggestive to one who wishes to understand the American attitude toward social problems and the course which social work has taken in America.” Lilian Brandt
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TURNER, GEORGE KIBBE. Hagar’s hoard. *$2.25 (2c) Knopf
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The story describes a yellow fever epidemic in Memphis in 1878 in all its weirdness and horror. In a large brick house lived an old man, Athiel Hagar, with his daughter and adopted nephew. The man is a miser and many are the stories current among the negroes about the fabulous sums he has hoarded in his house. His property is his obsession which keeps him rooted in the house when fleeing from the fever is the only sane thing to do. At last he succumbs to the enemy and in his last death agony accidentally pulls the cord which brings his treasure down upon him, burying the dead man under it.
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