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List of Chevy Chase Reading Class Texts and Members by Year or "Season"

Note: The year or "season" began in the fall, usually October or November, and continued through spring, usually April or May. Starting in the second season (1900-1901), the group generally met once a week, excluding holidays. Information about their reading lists is found in two kinds of documents in the CCHS Archive: First, "The Outline History of the Chevy Chase Reading Class," a bound journal covering the years 1899-1900 to 1924-1925 second, nine small booklets, each covering a season from 1919-20 to 1930-31.

The Reading Class member assigned to Year Author(s) Title a text -- or all members of the Reading Class that year. Recorded from Transcript of the "Outline History of the Chevy Chase Reading Class" Mesdames Verrill, Robertson, Bowen and Richards -- and 1899-1900 Taine, Stopford Brookes Books on English literature Mrs. Cousar. Mrs. Verrill, Mrs. Robertson, Mrs. Bowen, Mrs. 1900-1901 Chaucer, Spenser, Bacon, Swift, Pope, Johnson Reviewed life and works Richars, Misses Mary and Helen Childs, Mrs. Tucker, and Mrs. Weaver. Mrs. Verrill, Mrs. Robertson, Mrs. Bowen, Mrs. Scott, Lamb, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Macaulay, Moore, Richards, Miss M. Childs, Miss H. Childs, Mrs. 1901-1902 Shelley, Keats, Byron Tucker, Mrs. Mower, Mrs. Claude, Mrs. Swartzell, Mrs. Oliphant, and Mrs. Lincoln. Mrs. Verrill, Mrs. Robertson, Mrs. Bowen, Mrs. Thackeray, Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Tennyson, Richards, Miss M. Childs, Miss H. Childs, Mrs. 1902-1903 George Eliot, Carlyle, Ruskin, Mathew Arnold Tucker, Mrs. Claude, Mrs. Swartzell, Mrs. Oliphant, and Mrs. Lincoln. Mrs. Verrill, Mrs. Robertson, Mrs. Bowen, Mrs. Richards, Miss M. Childs, Miss H. Childs, Mrs. Irving, Bryant, Emerson, Hawthorne, Longfellow, Whittier, 1903-1904 Tucker, Mrs. Claude, Mrs. Swartzell, Mrs. Oliphant, Holmes, Thoreau, Lowell Mrs. Lincoln, Mrs. Stevens, Mrs. Whitney, and Mrs. Hodges.

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Mrs. Verrill, Mrs. Robertson, Mrs. Bowen, Mrs. Richards, Miss M. Childs, Miss H. Childs, Mrs. Hamlet, Midsummer Night's Dream, Merchant of Venice, Macbeth, 1904-1905 Shakespeare, Beaumont, Fletcher, Ben Johnson Tucker, Mrs. Claude, Mrs. Swartzell, Mrs. Lincoln, The Tempest, Antony and Cleopatra Mrs. Stevens, Mrs. Whitney, Mrs. Howard, and Mrs. Hodges.

Henrys IV and V, Richard III, Much Ado About Nothing, Taming of 1905-1906 William Shakespeare the Shrew, As You Like It, Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet, Coriolanus, Twelfth Night, Othello, Cymbeline, Winter's Tale

1906-1907 Richards, Hodges, Claude 1906-1907 Dante Robertson, Verrill, Bowen 1906-1907 Milton H. Childs, Swartzell, Bowen 1906-1907 Cervantes Stevens, Howard, Tucker Les Précieuses Ridicules, Hotel de Rambouillet, Tartuffe, Moliere: Mrs. Verrill, Mrs. Stevens, Mrs. Davis; Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Femmes Savantes, Le Médecin malgré Goethe: Mrs. Robertson, Mrs. Swartzell Mrs. 1907-1908 Moliere, Racine, Goethe, Schiller lui, Le Misanthrope, Malade Imaginaire; poems by Goethe and Stevens; Schiller: Mrs. Hodges, Mrs. Richards, Mrs. Faust; Schiller's William Tell, Wallenstein, poems. Racine's Esther, Bowen Andromagne, Athalie. Mrs. Hodges, Mrs. Davis, Mrs. Glennan, Mrs. 1908-1909 Tennyson Idylls of the King, Coming of Arthur, Lady of Shallott, Holy Grail Swartzell, Mrs. Tucker The Prelude and early poems. Letters, Intimations of Immortality, Miss (Helen) Childs, Mrs. Bowen, Miss (Fanny) 1908-1909 Wordsworth Extracts from Excursion Childs, Mrs. Robertson The Barrett Letters, Rabbi Ben Ezra, Abt Vogler, Assolanto, In a Mrs. Verrill, Mrs. Richards, Mrs. Stevens, Mrs. 1908-1909 Browning Balconey, Pied Piper, Cleon, In a Gondola, Herve Riel, short Wedderburn poems, Ring and the Book. 1909-1910 Meredith Diana of the Crossways Mrs. Richards 1909-1910 Shaw Essays, Chesterton on Shaw Mrs. Davis 1909-1910 Stevenson Essays and Poems, Will 'o the Mill Mrs. Hodges Doll's House, Hedda Gabler, First Act of Peer Gynt, Summary of 1909-1910 Ibsen Mesdames Stevens and Albert Master Builder 1909-1910 Tolstoi Anna Karenina Mrs. Wedderburn Blessed Damozel, Kings Tragedy, Sister Helen, Jennie, Rose 1909-1910 Rossetti Miss H. Childs, Mrs. Ridgway Marie

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1909-1910 Kipling Light that Failed, Ballads, William the Conqueror Mrs. Robertson, Mrs. Bowen 1909-1910 Materlink Monna Vanna, portions of Blue Bird, on Dog Mrs. Tucker

Historical sketch, reading with explanatory text of Hymns to the Sun God, Legend of Etana, Epic of Gilgamesh, including descent Mrs. Stevens, Mrs. Paschal, Mrs. Parker, Mrs. 1910-1911 Wisdom of the East: Babylon and Assyria of Ishtar into Arallu. Story of Creation, Legend of the Worm, Ridgway Episode of the Flood. Extracts from Code of Hammurabi

Historical sketch. The manners, customs and religion of ancient . Readings from Book of the Dead. Origin and use of the Scarab. Art, Architecture, tombs, and embalming. Rosetta stone. 1910-1911 Wisdom of the East: Persia and Buddhism Mrs. Robertson Literary records and literary periods. Precepts of Ptah Hotep. Epic of Pentaur. Lyrics. Epic of the Two Brothers. Setra and the Magic Book. Historical sketch. Script and language. Readings from the 1910-1911 Wisdom of the East: China Mrs. Richards Confucian classics and Meucins [spelling?]. Remarks on Japanese literature. Gengi Mongatari. Two medieval plays: Abstraction and Ribs and Skin. Tanka (verses) ancient and 1911-1912 Wisdom of the East, continued: Japan modern; ghost stories; the legend of Ito Norisuki. Romance of the Mrs. Ridgway Milky Way. Tanabata and Kikoboshi. Readings from Lafcadio Hearn's translations. 1911-1912 Wisdom of the East, continued: India India Mrs. Richards 1911-1912 Trollope Biography of Trollope, Barchester Towers Mrs. Stevens

Life of Mohammed and extracts from Koran. The Moors in , 1911-1912 Mohammed and the Koran Stanley Lane Poole. Irving’s Alhambra. Later Indian drama. The Mrs. Wedderburn [Little] Clay Cart and Shakuntala, both by Kalidasa.

Sketch of Persian literature. The Sufis or Mystics. The Shanamah of Firdausi; Khosru and Shireen of Nizami. Rubaiyat of Omar 1911-1912 Persian Literature Khayam. Rose and Fruit Garden of Rumi and Saadi. Salaman and Mrs. Robertson, Mrs. Hodges Absol of Jami. Le Gallienee’s translations of Hafiz. Portions of Lall Rookh. 1911-1912 Huxley Later omitted, and extra days were given to Mrs. Richards Mrs. Paschal

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1911-1912 Moore Mrs. Griffin 1911-1912 Arabian Nights Stories from Arabian Nights. Mrs. Parker 1911-1912 Addison Lives of Addison and Steele, and Readings from Spectator. Mrs. Bowen 1912-1913 Shakespeare John, with sketch from William the Normon Mrs. Robertson 1912-1913 Shakespeare Richard II Mrs. Hodges, Mrs. Stone 1912-1913 Shakespeare Henry IV, Part I and 2. Mrs. Stevens 1912-1913 Shakespeare Henry V Mrs. Bowen 1912-1913 Shakespeare Henry VI Part 1 Mrs. Richards 1912-1913 Shakespeare Henry VI Part 2 Mrs. Pruden 1912-1913 Shakespeare Henry VI Part 3 Mrs. Stone 1912-1913 Shakespeare Richard III Mrs. Ridgway 1912-1913 Shakespeare Henry VIII Mrs. Verrill for Mrs. Wedderburn 1913-1914 Galsworthy Justice Mrs. Ridgway 1913-1914 Peabody The Piper Mrs. Lane 1913-1914 Phillips Francesca and Paola Mrs. Richards 1913-1914 Synge Playboy of the Western World Mrs. Robertson 1913-1914 Hauptman Hannele Mrs. Bowen 1913-1914 Phillips Herod Mrs. Richards 1913-1914 Hauptman The Weavers Mrs. Stone 1913-1914 Shaw Man and Superman Mrs. Stevens 1913-1914 Suderman Magda Mrs. Hodges 1913-1914 Ibsen Ghosts Mrs. Adkins 1913-1914 Ibsen Pillars of Society Mrs. Dawson

Mrs. Robertson, Mrs. Bowen, Mrs. Richards, Mrs. Winnters: Mistral, Carducci, Prudhomme, Heyse, Stevens, Mrs. Hodges, , Mrs. Wedderburn, Mrs. 1914-1915 Bjornson, Sienkiewrez, Kipling, Echegaray, Lagerly, Tagore. Ridgway, Mrs. Prentiss, Mrs. Teele, Mrs. Dawson, Mrs. Stone, Mrs. Lane, Mrs. Adkins

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Walt Whitman and Contemporary Writers: Walt Whitman, Mrs. Robertson, Mrs. Bowen, Mrs. Richards, Mrs. Samuel Crothers, John Masefield, Israel Zangwill, Algernon Stevens, Mrs. Hodges, Mrs. Wedderburn, Mrs. 1915-1916 Swinburne, Arthur W. Pinero, Alfred Noyes, Seamus Ridgway, Mrs. Prentiss, Mrs. Teele, Mrs. Dawson, Macmanus, William Watson Mrs. Lane, Mrs. Merrill, and Mrs. Ashley.

Nature Writers: John Burroughs, Ernest Thompson Setow, Mrs. Robertson, Mrs. Bowen, Mrs. Richards, Mrs. Dallas Lore Sharp, Gene Stratton Porter, George Douglas Stevens, Mrs. Hodges, Mrs. Ridgway, Mrs. Prentiss, 1916-1917 Roberts, Neltje Blancham, Mable Osgood Wright, Jean Henri Mrs. Teele, Mrs. Dawson, Mrs. Lane, Mrs. Merrill, Cassimer Fabre Mrs. Ashley, and Mrs. Garland.

Mrs. Robertson, Mrs. Bowen, Mrs. Richards, Mrs. Russian Literature: Madame Olga Novikoff, Peter Kroptkin, Stevens, Mrs. Hodges, Mrs. Ridgway, Mrs. Prentiss, M. Trnbetzkoi, N.V. Gogol, L.N. Tolstoi, L. Andreyev, V. 1917-1918 Mrs. Teele, Mrs. Dawson, Mrs. Lane, Mrs. Merrill, Soloviev, A.P. Checkov, T.M. Dostoievski, L.N. Polapenko, Mrs. Ashley, Mrs. Garland, Mrs. Persons, and Mrs. M. Gorky, T. Sologob, A. Kuprin, P.N. Milinkoff Potbury. Mrs. Robertson, Mrs. Bowen, Mrs. Richards, Mrs. : Jonas Liil, Bjornstjerne, Hjalmer, Stevens, Mrs. Hodges, Mrs. Ridgway, Mrs. Prentiss, 1918-1919 Hjorth Boyesen, , John Strindberg, Mrs. Teele, Mrs. Dawson, Mrs. Lane, Mrs. Merrill, Selma Lagerlof Mrs. Ashley, Mrs. Garland, Mrs. Persons, and Mrs. Potbury. Mrs. Robertson, Mrs. Bowen, Mrs. Richards, Mrs. Stevens, Mrs. Hodges, Mrs. Ridgway, Mrs. Prentiss, Mrs. Richards was chairman, and members selected their Mrs. Teele, Mrs. Dawson, Mrs. Lane, Mrs. Merrill, 1919-1920 own writer Mrs. Ashley, Mrs. Garland, Mrs. Persons, Mrs. Potbury, Mrs. Couper, Mrs. Hillyer, Mrs. Marsh, and Mrs. Jordidi.

Mrs. Robertson, Mrs. Bowen, Mrs. Richards, Mrs. Cymbaline, Julius Caesar, Comedy of Errors, King Lear, Stevens, Mrs. Hodges, Mrs. Ridgway, Mrs. Prentiss, 1920-1921 Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream, Othello, As You Like It, Macbeth, Mrs. Teele, Mrs. Dawson, Mrs. Lane, Mrs. Merrill, Richard II, Taming of the Shrew, Winter's Tale, King John. Mrs. Ashley, Mrs. Garland, Mrs. Potbury, Mrs. Couper, Mrs. Hillyer, Mrs. Marsh, and Mrs. Jordidi.

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Mrs. McLelland and Miss Mackrille were elected to 1921-1922 William Hudson Juniperro Serra membership .

1921-1922 Sandhurst Biographies: Leonardo Da Vinci, Michael Angelo, Raphael, Titian

1921-1922 Wharton Biographies: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Biographies: William of Orange, Motley's Dutch Republic, 1921-1922 A.L. Swinburne Garibaldi 1921-1922 Wharton Biographies: Richard Brinsly Sheridan 1921-1922 Her daughters Biographies: Victor Hugo, Mrs. Julia Ward Howe 1921-1922 Nohl Biographies: Beethoven 1921-1922 Herman Klein Biographies: Adelina Putti 1921-1922 John Hays Hammond Biographies: Cecil Rhodes 1921-1922 H. Beglie Biographies: Lord Kitchener Biographies: Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. 1921-1922 Ed. Sandford Martins Anthony, Alexandra Flodoronna, Joseph H. Chrate 1921-1922 Biographies: Li Hung Chang 1921-1922 Homer, Dante, Milton, other poets Joseph Conrad, Gamaliel Bradford, H.G. Wells, Edward John Dunsany, , Arthur Symons, James Bryce, William Charles Beebe, Modern English and Irish Poets, 1922-1923 , Walter Lionel George, Eugene G. O'Neill, Hamlin Garland, Edith Wharton, Villjahmur Stefanson, James Gibbons Huneker, Henry Louis Mencken, Leonard Merrick, American Poets

A varied program of Travel, Eocnomics, Science and Literature: James Harvey Robinson, James Gilbane Huniker, Sidney and Beatrice Webb, Norman Angell, Jacinto 1923-1924 Benavente, , J. Arthur Thomson, Ethel Sedwick, Theodore Lothrop Stoddard, Edward Simmone, Joseph Hergeshimer, N. Levi, , Ferdinand Ossendowsky, Louis Hemon, Thomas Morris Longstreth

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Contemporary Writers: Robert Underwood Johnson, Frank Richardson Kent, G. Stanley Hall, Margaret Wilson, Edwin E. Slosson, William Otis Caldwell, Michael Idvorsky Pupin, Edith "In February the Class celebrated its Silver Wharton, Andre Maurois, William Butler Yeats, Robert Frost, 1924-1925 Anniversary by an evening party at the home of Mrs. Havelock Ellis, William Lyon Phelps, Marie Curie, Arthur S. Robertson, with our husbands as guests." Hady, Anzia Yezierska, Arthur Weigall, Albert Edward Wiggan, Walter Damrosch, Edward Murray East, Mary A. von Arnim Recorded from Nine Annual Pamphlets , from the 1919-20 season to the 1930-31 season. Information in these printed pamphlets overlaps with the last five years recorded in the minutes taken in the "Outline History of the Chevy Chase Reading Class," 1919-20 to 1924-15. 1919 Sidney Lanier "The time needs heart -- 'tis tired of head" Eliza M. Warner 1919 "The ships have a thousand eyes." Grace Robertson Bowen 1919 Hugh Walpole "Tisn't life than matters, but the courage you bring to it" Carrie King Ridgway "But the fools, because they cared more deeply, were taken." 1919 Henry Galleon Gertrude MacNulty Stevens Spanish Nights 1919 1919 "My soul is like a watered garden." Annie B. Potbury

1920 Van Dyke "What we needs must do that we can do." The Broken Soldier. Harriet Powell Ashley

"Thy heritage reject not / Thy leader's word neglect not / Thy 1920 Czechoslovak song Fanny O. Richards comrades bold forsake not/ Stand firm unto the end." 1920 "They say that we artisits do everything under the first impression 1920 Anna Hamlin Hodges of the moment," That Third Woman 1920 Virginia P. Lane 1920 Dorothy Canfield "That's the motto in the (French) army "not to give up." 1920 Mallie Louise Wolcott "Good is more infections than evil" 1920 Andrews Joy in the Morning 1920 "if you keep it up, they can't." Alice M. Garland 1920 Mary B. Robertson

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"I ask only that none laboar beyond measure that others may be 1920 idle."

"So many gods, so many creeds, / So many paths that wind, and 1920 Louise H. Prentiss wind, / and ye, the art of being kind is all this old world needs."

1920 Shakespeare Twelfth Night Mrs. Garland 1920 Shakespeare Richard III Mrs. Robertson 1920 Shakespeare Tempest Mrs. Cooper 1920 Shakespeare Henry V. Mrs. Prentiss 1920 Shakespeare Merchant of Venice Mrs. Bowen 1920 Shakespeare Henry VIII Mrs. Hillyer 1921 Shakespeare Cymbaline Mrs. Warner 1921 Shakespeare Julius Caesar Mrs. Wolcott 1921 Shakespeare Comedy of Errors Mrs. Lane 1921 Shakespeare King Lear Mrs. Hodges 1921 Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream Mrs. Marsh 1921 Shakespeare Othello Mrs. Ashley 1921 Shakespeare As You Like It Mrs. Potbury 1921 Shakespeare Macbeth Mrs. Stevens 1921 Shakespeare A Russian Translation Mrs. Jodidi 1921 Shakespeare Richard II Mrs. Ridgway 1921 Shakespeare The Taming of the Shrew Mrs. Dawson 1921 Shakespeare Winter's Tale Mrs. Teele 1921 Shakespeare King John Mrs. Richards 1922 Joseph Conrad Mrs. Stevens 1922 Gamliel Bradford Mrs. Couper 1922 H.G. Wells Mrs. McClellan 1922 Edward John Dunsany Mrs. Marsh 1922 Knut Hamsun Mrs. Richards, Mrs. Jodidi 1922 Arthur Symons Mrs. Hillyer 1922 James Bryce Modern Democracy Mrs. Roberston

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1923 William Charles Beeb Mrs. Bowen 1923 English and Irish Poets Mrs. Merrill 1923 Anatole France Mrs. Wolcott 1923 Walter Lionel George Miss McCreel 1923 Eugene G. O'Neill Anna Christie Mrs. Hodges 1923 Hamlin Garland A Daughter of the Middle Border Mrs. Garland 1923 Edith Wharton Mrs. Lane 1923 Vilhjalmur Stefansson The Friendly Arctic Mrs. Potbury 1923 James Gibbons Huneker, Henry Louis Mencken Mrs. Warner 1923 Leonard Merrick Mrs. Prentiss 1923 American Poets Mrs. Dawson, Mrs. Ashley 1923 Celebrities Places made interesting Mrs. Hillyer 1923 James Harvey Robinson The Mind in the Making Mrs. Marsh 1923 James Gibbons Huniker Mrs. Warner 1923 Sidney and Beatrice Webb The Decline of Capitalist Civilization Mrs. Hodges 1923 Norman Angell The Great Illusion, Fruits of Victory Mrs. Stevens 1923 Norman Angell If Britain is to Live, The Press and the Organization of Society Mrs. McClellan 1924 y Martinez The Passion Flower, The Bonds of Interest Mrs. Richards 1924 George Bernard Shaw Back to Methuselah Mrs. Robertson John F. Porte, Elizabeth Fry Page, Pierre V.R. Key, Pruno 1924 Edward Alexander MacDowell, Enrico Caruso Mrs. Couper Zirato 1924 J. Arthur Thomson The Outline of Science Mrs. Garland 1924 Ethel Sidgwick Madam Mrs. Potbury 1924 Theodore Lothrop Stoddard The Rising Tide of Color Against White World Supremacy Mrs. Dawson 1924 Edward Simons From Seven to Seventy Ms. Wolcott 1924 Joseph Hergsheimer Java Head, Three Black Pennies Mrs. Prentiss 1924 N. Levi Jans Smuts Miss Mackrille 1924 John Galsworthy The Forsyte Saga Mrs. Ashley 1924 Ferdinand Ossendowsky Beast, Men, and Gods Mrs. Jodidi 1924 Louis Hemon Maria Chapedelaine Mrs. Merrill 1924 Thomas Morris Longstreth The Laurentians Mrs. Lane

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1924 Recollections of Europe Mrs. Merill 1924 Robert Underwood Johnson Remembered Yesterdays Mrs. Hillyer 1924 Frank Richardson Kent The Great Game of Politics Mrs. Warner 1924 G. Stanley Hall Life and Confessions of a Psychologist Mrs. Garland 1924 Margaret Wilson The Able McLaughlins Mrs. McClellan 1924 Edwin Slossom and William Otis Caldwell Science Remaking the World Mrs. Ashley 1924 Michael Idvorsky Pupin From Immigrant to Inventor Mrs. Bowen 1924 Edith Wharton Old New York Mrs. Couper 1925 Andre Maurois Ariel, The Life of Shelley Miss Mackrille 1925 William Butler Yeats, Robert Frost Mrs. Marsh 1925 Havelock Ellis The of Life Mrs. Robertson 1925 William Lyon Phelps Human Nature in the Bible Mrs. Wolcott 1925 Marie Curie Pierre Currie Mrs. Dawson 1925 Arthur S. Hardy Things Remembered Mrs. Potbury 1925 Anzia Yezierska Children of Loneliness Mrs. Lane 1925 Arthur Weigall The Glory of the Mrs. Richards 1925 Albert Edward Wiggam The New Decalogue of Science Mrs. Hodges 1925 Walter Damrosch My Musical Life Mrs. Jodidi 1925 Edward Murray East Mankind at the Crossroads Mrs. Stevens 1925 Mary A von Arnim The Enchanted April Mrs. Prentiss 1926 W. H. Hudson Afoot in Miss Mackrille 1926 Honore Wiltsie Morrow We Must March Mrs. Garland 1926 Lord Frederick Hamilton Here, There, Everywhere Mrs. Prentiss 1926 Johnston Forbes-Robertson A Player Under Three Reigns Mrs. Wolcott 1926 Emerson Mrs. Hillyer 1926 Adelaide Eden Phillpots Lodgers in Mrs. Lane 1926 Haardt and Audouin-Dubriel Across the in a Motorcar Mrs. Tabor 1926 Helen Nicolay Our Capital on the Potomac Mrs. Robertson 1927 Annie Russell Marble The Nobel Prize Winners Mrs. Couper 1927 Catherine Anthony Catherine the Great Mrs. Richards 1927 Louis Brown Stranger than Fiction Mrs. Merrill

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1927 Louis Untermeyer Modern American Mrs. Robertson 1927 Corra Harris As a Woman Thinks Mrs. Potbury 1927 Llewelyn Powys The Verdict of Bridlegoose Mrs. Stevens 1927 Louise Jordan Miln A Shantung Garden Mrs. Bowen 1927 John Drinkwater The Pilgrim of Eternity Mrs. Jodidi 1927 Bruce Barton The Man Nobody Knows Mrs. Hodges 1927 Carveth Wells Six Years in a Malay Jungle Mrs. Marsh 1927 Wilfred T. Grenfell A Labrador Doctor Mrs. Warner 1927 Merion Cooper Grass Mrs. Dawson 1927 James Boyd Marching On Mrs. Couper 1927 Introduction to Bernard Shaw Mrs. Ashley 1927 Bernard Shaw Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant Mrs. Stevens 1927 Bernard Shaw Translations and Tomfooleries Mrs. Warner 1927 Modern American Poetry Mrs. Jamieson 1927 Harvey Allen Israfel: The Life and Times of Edgar Allen Poe Vol. I Miss Mackrille 1927 Harvey Allen Israfel: The Life and Times of Edgar Allen Poe Vol. II Mrs. Bowen 1927 Maxmilian Harding I Meet my Contemporaries Mrs. Hillyer 1927 Jacinto Benavente Saturday Night, The Smile of Mona Lisa Mrs. Dawson 1927 Prince D. S. Mirsky Contemporary Russian Literature Mrs. Jodidi 1928 Selma Lagerlof Story of Gosta Berling Mrs. Hodges 1928 To be selected(sic) Mrs. Lane 1928 Mother and Son Mrs. Tabor 1928 Ekaterina Radziwill The Knew the Washingtons Mrs. Wolcott 1928 Sergei N. Sergeev-Trenski Transfiguration Mrs. Robertson 1928 Richard Halliburton The Glorious Adventure Mrs. Potbury 1928 Selections from Williamn Butler Yeats Mrs. Richards 1928 E. J. Stackpole Behind the Scenes with a Newspaper Man Mrs. Merrill 1928 Ibsen Centenary Mrs. Marsh 1928 John St. Loe Strachey American Soundings Mrs. Prentiss 1928 To be selected(sic) Mrs. Garland 1928 Lytton Strachey Elizabeth and Essex Miss Mackrille

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1928 Harriet Seelye Rhees "Laruenus Clark Seelye, First Prsident of Smith College" Mrs. Jameson 1928 Philip Guedalla Bonnet and Shawl Mrs. Prentiss 1928 Benito Mussolini My Autobiography Mrs. Lane 1928 Francis Hackett Henry the Eighth Mrs. Ashley 1928 William B. Seabrook The Magic Island Mrs. Bowen 1928 Hilaire Belloc A Conversation with an Angel and other essays Mrs. Stevens 1928 Julia Peterson Scarlet Sister Mary Mrs. Wolcott 1928 J. Frederick Essary Reverse England Mrs. Hillyer 1929 Nobel Prize Book Mrs. Warner 1929 Ernest Dimnet The Art of Thinking Mrs. Tabor 1929 Lady Murasaki Blue Trousers - Part IV of the Tale of Genji Mrs. Hodges 1929 Burton Rascoe A Bookman's Day Book Mrs. Merrill 1929 Recent American Poetry Mrs. Robertson 1929 William Beebe Beneath Tropic Seas Mrs. Potbury 1929 Recent English Fiction Mrs. Couper 1929 Recent Russian Literature Mrs. Jodidi 1929 Gamaliel Bradford As God Made Them Mrs. Dawson 1929 "Recent American Fiction" Mrs. Garland 1929 George Bernard Shaw The Apple Cart Mrs. Richards 1930 Mary Roberts Rinehart The Door Mrs. Tabor 1930 George Clemenceau The Grandeur and Misery of Victory Miss Mackrille 1930 Oliver La Farge The Laughing Boy Mrs. Hodges 1930 Paul Claudel The Book of Mrs. Wolcott 1930 Robert Bridges and John Masefield Poetry Mrs. Ashley 1930 Harold Lamb The Crusades Mrs. Dawson 1930 Shelby Little George Washington Mrs. Lane 1931 Jack Minor and the Birds Mrs. Potbury 1931 The Bystanders Mrs. Jodidi 1931 Chinese Literature Mrs. Richards 1931 The Jade Mountain (Chinese Poetry) Mrs. Jameson 1931 Mary Webb Precious Bane Mrs. Prentiss

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1931 Rev. F.S. Andrews Mahatma Gandhi's Ideas Mrs. Couper 1931 Mrs. Stevens 1931 Charles C. Sellers Benedict Arnold Mrs. Robertson 1931 Elizabeth M. Roberts The Great Meadows Mrs. Hillyer 1931 Bernard Fay Benjamin Franklin Mrs. Garland 1931 Marc Connelly The Green Pastures Mrs. Warner 1931 Henry Van Dyke The Mansion Mrs. Bowen 1931 George Santayana Soliloquies in England Mrs. Merrill

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