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van Doren, Mark | April 22, 1925 issue

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The article presents information about the book "The Story of Wilbur the Hat," by Hendrik Willem van Loon. Every other page of his book is splashed with color, and the print on the wide page opposite is easy to read because there is not much of it. But after a few preliminary skirmishes it becomes clear that Van Loon has some serious things to say and that although he will laugh as he says them he will mean them. Van Loon has invented a world where all things happen as they should. Ships in the clouds go sailing after dreams and find them and credit for ideas goes always to the earliest men who had them.

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STORY of Wilbur the Hat, The (Book); VAN Loon, Hendrik Willem; BOOKS & reading; SAILING; DREAMS; WIT & humor
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