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Humphreys, Alexander Crombie. Lecture notes on some of the business features of engineering practice. $1. Dept. of business engineering, Stevens institute of technology, Hoboken, N. J.
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Huneker, James Gibbons. [Iconoclasts: a book of dramatists.] [**]$1.50. Scribner.
Studies of modern continental dramatists. A review of Henrik Ibsen’s work is followed by impressions and criticisms of the dramas of August Strindberg, Henry Becque, Gerhart Hauptmann, Paul Hervieu, “The quintessence” of Shaw, Maxim Gorky’s “Nachtasyl,” Hermann Sudermann, Princess Mathilde’s play, Duse and D’Annunzio, Villiers del Isle Adam, and Maurice Maeterlinck.
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| + — | Ath. 1905, 2: 284. Ag. 26, ‘05. 690w. |
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