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LARDNER, Jr., Ring W. ~ Young Immigrunts - ins 1920 ED "E.R. Burroughs, Tarzana Ranch, July 1920 LARDNER, Ring W., Jr. Young Immigrunts. Indianapolis: The Bobbs Merrill Company, Publishers, 1920. Flyleaf inscription: “E.R. Burroughs, Tarzana Ranch, July 1920.” The Last American (possibly by J. A. MITCHELL?): A Fragment from the journal of KHAN-LI, Prince of Dimph-Yoo-Chur and Admiral in the Persian Navy 1889 LATIMER, Elizabeth W.: France in the XIX Century LATIMER: Talks of Napoleon LEFEBURE, Victor: Riddle of the Rhine: Chemical Strategy in Peace and War LEWIS, D B.. Wyndham: King Spider LILLIBRIDGE, Will: Ben Blair LONGHORNE, J.W.: Plutarch LOOMIS: Sea Legs LUMMIS, Charles F. The Land of Peco Tiampo LYELL, Denis D.: Memories of an African Hunter |
| Ring W. Lardner, Jr. |
| The Young Immigrunts with preface by Ring W. Lardner, Sr.~
Indianapolis:
The Bobbs Merrill Company, Publishers, 1920
Flyleaf inscription: “E.R. Burroughs, Tarzana Ranch, July 1920.” ins 1920 ED  
Other: Round Up, The Stories of Ring W. Lardner ~ 1929 ~ NY: The Literary Guild ~ 467 pages |
| The Last American |
| Possibly by John
Ames Mitchell?): A Fragment from the journal of KHAN-LI, Prince of Dimph-Yoo-Chur
and Admiral in the Persian Navy 1889
Online eText Edition: http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=7485 |
| Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer 1822-1904 |
| France in the XIX Century, 1830-1890 ~ 1895 ~ Chicago: A. C.
McClurg
Talks of Napoleon OTHER:
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| Mary Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer 1822-1904 historian and
translator Born in London on July 26, 1822, Mary Wormeley was the daughter
of American-born parents. Her father was a naturalized British subject
and an admiral in the Royal navy. Her education was acquired haphazardly
during the family's constant travels in Europe, and she early learned to
mix easily with the socially prominent, making her debut at the court of
Louis Philippe. In the mid-1840s the family returned to the United States
and lived in Boston and Newport, Rhode Island. In 1852 she published her
first book, a novel entitled «Amabel». Her second, «Our
Cousin Veronica», appeared in 1856, in which year she married Randolph
B. Latimer of Baltimore. Her writing career was suspended for 20 years
in favor of home and family, but in 1876 she resumed literary work. Her
stories were published in various magazines but not collected.
Biography and Bibliography |
| Victor LeFebure |
| Riddle of the Rhine: Chemical Strategy in Peace and War ~ 1923
~ Chemical Foundation of NYC.or 1923 NY: E.P. Dutton & Company ~ It
details chemical warfare and the factories on the Rhine. 282 pages with
5 pages of illustrations
"An account of the critical struggle for power and for the decisive war initiative. The campaign fostered by the great Rhine factories, and the pressing problems which they represent..." Concerns chemical warfare as practiced in WWI, and the chemical industry generally; and how Germany maintained a near world monopoly in organic chemical production and could convert to war production easily. The author served with a gas unit in with the British Army in France before becoming a Liaison Officer on chemical warfare matters with the French and other Allies. Lefebure looks at how the German dominance of the world's chemical industry through the I.G. Farben cartel enabled her to produce chemical weapons and calls for redistribution of world chemical production. An interesting history of gas warfare is given, including the struggle between chemical weapons and means to protect against them. Preface by Marshal Foch, Introduction by Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson. Online eText Edition: ftp://sailor.gutenberg.org/pub/gutenberg/etext98/rrhin10.txt
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| D. B. Wyndham Lewis (1894-1969) |
| King Spider, Some Aspects of Louis XI of France and His Companions
1929 NY: Coward-McCann, Inc. 11 plates, including a map of France 1483
after Louis XI death.
Louis XI, 1423-83, king of France (1461-83), son and successor of Charles VII. Louis XI, a member of the Valois Dynasty, was one of the most successful kings of France, in terms of uniting the country. His 22-year reign was marked by political machinations, resulting in his being given the nickname of the "Spider King". This volume is an essay, or a series of aspects, somewhat after the model of Thackeray in "The Four Georges." Compiled from authentic sources a series of pictures presenting the history and backround of Louis XI. Frontispiece, Louis XI, a presumed portrait, by Colin d' Amiens OTHER: The Stuffed Owl: An Anthology of Bad Verse The best of the worst of the greatest poets of the English language, masterpieces of the maladroit by Dryden, Wordsworth, and Keats, among many others Book of the Knight of La Tour Landry Francois Villon Ronsard Francols Villon Film: The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956   ) |
| Dominic Bevan Wyndham Lewis (1894-1969) was born in Wales and educated at Oxford. Prior to serving in World War I, he intended to pursue the legal profession; but after, having suffered two bouts of shell shock and one of malaria, he set his sights on journalism. In 1919, he became a columnist for The London Daily Express under the pseudonym "Beach Comber." These pieces and those that he later wrote for The London Daily Mail and The London News Chronicle capture Lewis's legendary wit and savage, though eloquent, impatience with modern trends and are collected in the volumes At the Green Goose (1923), At the Sign of the Blue Moon (1924), At the Blue Moon Again (1925), and On Straw and Other Conceits (1929). He wrote several literary biographies, acclaimed for both their spirited subjectivity and their attention to historical detail, taking on subjects ranging from Rabelais and Molière to Boswell and Habsburg Emperor Charles V. Mid-career, he also coauthored the story on which Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much was based. |
| Will Lillibridge |
| Ben Blair ~ 1905 Frontispiece by Maynard Dixon
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| J. W. Longhorne |
| Plutarch's Lives, translation with critical and historical notes,
London, 1825, 72; J. Boardman,; C.D. Kurtz, Greek Burial Customs
Online eText Version http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=674 |
| Charles Fletcher Lummis | ||
The Land of Poco Tiempo ~ New Mexico
  
OTHER: A Tramp Across the Continent ~ reprinted by the University of Nebraska Press Some Strange Corners of Our Country: The Wonderland of the Southwest Letters from the Southwest Ref Links and Online eText Sources for Lummis articles and poems
The Lummis / Harrison Gray Otis / Burroughs Connection  Harrison
Gray Otis, legendary editor and publisher of the Los Angeles Times
hired Lummis to work as a reporter for the Times on the day he completed
his 3,507-mile walk from Cincinnati to Los Angeles. Interestingly, it was
the Otis estate in the San Fernando Valley that Ed Burroughs would purchase
and rename Tarzana Ranch in 1919. Otis was widely regarded as a tyrannical
bully who often used underhanded tactics and the pages of his newspaper
to unfairly attack and undermine his opponents. In fact, Theodore Roosevelt,
is quoted as saying that Otis "is a consistent enemy of men in California
who have dared resolutely to stand against corruption and in favor of honesty."
It is not surprising then that Lummis was given the assignment of defending
and whitewashing the character and public service record of the city's
corrupt police chief, Edward McCarthy, in the pages of the Times. Despite
the great waves of antagonism toward Otis, he and his popular new journalist
were a strong voice in preaching tolerance of Chinese immigrants and black
laborers. The Times was also a powerful influence in the taming and civilizing
the "wild west" city of Los Angeles in the late 19th century. |
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 Charles
Fletcher Lummis, in 1884, he walked from Ohio to California in a pair
of knickerbockers and street shoes to take a job as a reporter for
the Los Angeles Times. He gained a national following with weekly
letters about his escapades along the way. A New England Yankee by
birth, he gained a deep appreciation for both the natural beauty and cultural
diversity of the Southwest, where he remained for the rest of his life.
Lummis almost always attired in his trademark well-worn, dark green, Spanish-style
corduroy suit, soiled sombrero and red Navajo sash, went on to become one
of the most famous and colorful personalities of his day as a book author,
magazine editor, archaeologist, preserver of Spanish missions, advisor
to President Theodore Roosevelt and a crusader for civil rights for American
Indians, Hispanics and other minority groups. He was open and
accepting of all people, flamboyent, bombastic and an asset to the development
of Los Angeles, its library, the Southwest Museum and the peaceful relocation
of the native Americans to reservations. (He had been appointed to that
task by his Harvard classmate, Teddy Roosevelt.) A new biography
of Lummis, American Character, was published in the spring of 2001.
Publisher's Weekly called it "a compulsively engaging and spirited
biography of a man as colorful as he was influential."
Apostle of the Southwest
From the Obituary that appeared in the New York Times, November 1928:
Web Ref: The Charles Lummis Website |
| Denis D. Lyell |
Memories of an African Hunter ~ 1923 ~ With a chapter on Eastern
India.~ T Fisher (also Boston: Small, Maynard and Co.; 267, [1] p.(also
London, T.F. Unwin Ltd. 1923)
Modern day reprint edition OTHER: The Wild Sports of Southern Africa Wild Life In Central Africa. 1913 The Hunting & Spoor of Central Africa Game ~ 1929 African Adventure Letters from the Famous Big-game Hunters 1935 The African Elephant and Its Hunters. 1924 Heath Cranton Ltd., London ~ 221pages, 13 colour plates This is the fourth book on hunting from the pen of Denis Lyell, a hunter with a long and practical experience of his subject gained in Nyasaland, North Eastern Rhodesia and Portugese East Africa from 1898. It is chatty in its style and is rich in information on elephants and their habits, hints on hunting them, their ivory, and the dangers generally of hunting elephants and other game. This sage advice with its fascinating facts is threaded with anecdote in which many of the authors in this Series, and other renowned hunters, are mentioned. Among those who feature are Sir Samuel Baker, W. Cotton Oswell, Gordon Cumming, Cornwallis Harris, Baldwin, Stigand, Finaughty, Sutherland and Neumann to which he adds comment and appraisal. Neumann he named as "the greatest elephant hunter who ever lived". He discusses hunting weapons and includes a sketch showing the positions of vital shots for an elephant: brain, heart and lungs. There is an account of the cutting up of a carcass by the local inhabitants of the area where the animal was shot. The African names for an elephant in different areas are given. In a chapter on the old 'greats' of elephant hunting he compares the weapons of the early Victorian hunters with the 'modern' guns he used. His inclusion of Messrs Lewis & Peat's pamphlet Ivory: General Information (revised to April 1923) sheds light on the special uses to which the various types of ivory are put. Reference to the legendary so-called 'elephant cemeteries' recalls Cullen Gouldsbury's poem 'The Place Where the Elephants Die'. Illustrated with photographs by the author. |
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