LORD CHESTERFIELD AND His WORLD (456 pp.)—Samuel Shellabarger—Little, Brown ($5). Samuel Shellabarger is a master of the histrionical romance. His Captain from Castile and Prince of Foxes bristled ...
TOLBECKEN (370 pp.)—Samuel Shellabarger—Little, Brown ($3.95). Many a professor must have a streak of Alexandre Dumas in him, but most of them would no more expose it than be caught jitterbugging.
At nearly 90, William A. Kinnison is a habitual historian. Each morning, he checks the “this day in history” feature in the Springfield News-Sun. And over coffee Nov. 2 in the Wittenberg University ...