Asia: Journal of the American Asiatic Association, Volume 22, Issue 5Asia Publishing Company, 1922 - Asia |
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Page 409 - Oh that I had never heard of Niagara till I beheld it ! Blessed were the wanderers of old, who heard its deep roar, sounding through the woods, as the summons to an unknown wonder, and approached its awful brink, in all the freshness of native feeling.
Page 333 - The work will be carried on under the name of « the third Asiatic expedition of the American Museum of Natural History, in cooperation with the American Asiatic Association and Asia Magazine", the field work will last five years, and the estimated cost is $ 250.000.
Page 415 - Come you back, you British soldier; come you back to Mandalay!" Come you back to Mandalay, Where the old Flotilla lay: Can't you 'ear their paddles chunkin' from Rangoon to Mandalay? On the road to Mandalay, Where the flyin'-fishes play, An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer China 'crost the Bay!
Page 419 - ... of LITTLE JOURNEYS TO THE HOMES OF THE GREAT is complete in 14 volumes, printed on specially made deckle-edge paper containing the Roycroft water-mark, semi-flexible binding, each volume handsomely embossed and modeled in colors. Mail Coupon For Very Special Quotation and Free Little Journey Booklet A limited number of the Memorial sets will be distributed at a very special price, so low in fact, that we cannot publish the price broadcast. To do so might possibly interfere with the future sale...
Page 419 - Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great FOURTEEN YEARS were consumed in the writing of the work that ranks to-day as Elbert Hubbard's masterpiece. In 1894 the series of "Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great...
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Page 335 - The effort required is trivial; the possible rewards are immense. 2000 new scenarios must be found The Palmer Photoplay Corporation is in business first of all to sell photoplays to producers. Look over the list of the Advisory Council; see the leaders who constitute it. These leaders realize (i) that the future of the screen drama is absolutely dependent 'upon the discovery and training of new writers. They realize (2) that writing ability and storytelling ability are two entirely different gifts.
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Page 419 - Philistine." Besides, who was to lake»up his pen? It was also a beautiful tribute to the father from the son. The same spirit of devotion has prompted the Roycrofters to issue their Memorial edition of "Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great.
Page 409 - ... perspective of the low wooded banks on either shore, running down to a vanishing point and seeming to be lost in the advancing waters. An apparently shoreless sea tumbling towards one is a very grand and a very awful sight. ^Forgetting there what one knows, and giving oneself up to what one only sees, I do not know that there is anything in nature more majestic than the view of the Rapids above the Falls of Niagara.