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Title: The World book : organized knowledge in story and picture
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: O'Shea, M. V. (Michael Vincent), 1866-1932 Foster, Ellsworth D Locke, George Herbert, 1870-1937
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: Chicago : Hanson-Roach-Fowler
Contributing Library: Internet Archive
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conomics,politics and other topics were given respectfulhearing. He edited the Harv-ard Classics,popularly known as the Five-Foot Shelf ofbooks, a selection of the worlds best literature,whose careful reading, he said, would give anyman or woman a liberal education. In 1909President Taft offered him the ambassadorshipto Great Britain, but Eliot declined on theground of age. He was from 1909 a memberof the General Education Board and a trusteeof the Rockefeller Foundation. He was a frequent speaker in public, and alsothe writer of a number of books, among thema Manual of Qualitative Chemical Analysis;Five American Contributions to Civilization and Other Essays; Educational Reform; TheHappy Life; The Durable Satisfactions of Life;Four American Leaders; and The Xew Re-ligion. W.F.Z. ELIOT, George (1819-1880), the pen nameof Mary Axx (or Marian) Evans, the fore-most woman waiter of English fiction. To-gether with her two great contemporaries ofthe Victorian Age, Dickens and Thackeray, she
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GEORGE ELIOTOf all the women writers who have helped andare still helping to place our English novels atthe head of the worlds fiction, she holds at pres-ent unquestionably the highest rank.—Long. has an assured place among those novelists whohave helped to give English fiction its com-manding position in the worlds literature. Marian Evans was born on November 22,1819, at Arbury Farm, in Warwickshire, one ofthe Midland counties, about twenty miles fromthe town of Stratford, where Shakespeare wasborn. Her father, a plain, honest farmer ofthe type seen in the hero of Adam Bede, wasagent for Mr. Francis Newdigate, and on hisArbury estate the novelist passed the firsttwenty-one jears of her life. Some of the mostinteresting descriptions of scenery, characterand incident that brighten her novels are re-flections of her life in the English Midlands.She and her brother are pictured in The Millon the Floss as Maggie and Tom Tulliver;the saintly Dinah Morris in Adam Bede isone of her aunts;

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