CLASS OF 1899
The Alumni Editor has received "The Ninety-Nine Inlook, Published Once a Year, with Illustrations." It is dated December 31, 1916, but "delayed to April, 1917." The external resemblance to the Outlook is more striking than the internal. The editor has had previous occasion to note the peculiar quality and excellence of the '99 reports, and this, like its predecessors, is certainly "something different."
James P. Richardson is to serve in the Massachusetts Constitional Convention as a member from the Fourth Representative District of Middlesex County.
A. H. Brown has recently established The A. H. Brown Co., dealing in Studebaker automobiles and commercial cars, at 72 Central St., Albany, N. Y.
George H. Evans on May 1 became the head librarian of the Somerville Public Library and its branches. The Woburn DailyTimes, speaking regretfully of his going to larger fields, prints a long appreciation of the efficient work and innovations during his management of the Woburn Library, increas- ing its annual circulation 40 per cent and making the library an institution of active public service in the community.
G. H. Gerould's recent novel "Peter Sanders, Retired", by Scribners, sketches delightfully the post-gaming history of a noted and successful manager of a .wealthy man's gambling house in New York city, forced into retirement by an ambitiously active district attorney. The man's finer qualities of appreciation and discriminating fondness for collecting books, not only for their rarity or their tooled backs, but for the ideas within them, of thoughtfulness for and appreciation of others as well as of himself, of gentlemanly humanism and chivalry of character, carry him through the necessary mental and physical readjustments of life and the paradoxical situations such entail, in heart-winning fashion. The wanderings that take him and his man from New York to England and Europe, settle them in the English countryside and lake region, re-establish them in Florida, and later in the countryside adjacent to Hanover, even lead them into the Dartmouth collegiate atmosphere of the Wet-Down and Commencement time, with a keen insight of the localities and their people, are the well chosen pigments that make the narration of the progress of the readjustment perfect. Peter and his man are a paradox and a paragon, human modern-day Don Quixotic reflections on the philosophies of books and experience, clever and worthwhile, and the other people in "their play" are an "all star cast."
Secretary, George G. Clark, 60 State St., Boston
