21, by Frank Crane. Published 1930, ©1918, 1917.

A short book of advice to young men, told in the form “If I were Twenty-One, I would…”

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The Head Voice and Other Problems, by D. A. Clippinger, 1917. Clippinger wrote several books on voice training — this is probably one of his earliest. He also wrote an article for Musical Quarterly (”Scientific Voice Training.” Musical Quarterly, Vol. 4, No. 4 (Oct., 1918), pp. 618-629) but unfortunately I can’t read it, not being a vetted academic.

I post-processed this book for David Newman. It was a nice break from doing my own projects.

It may be that the catastrophe, so far as we are concerned, might have been staved off once more if we would have disregarded the obligation of our alliance and would have left Austria in the lurch–the Austria which did not want anything else than to put a stop to the nasty work of a band of assassins organized by a neighboring State. But it requires an extreme degree of political blindness for the assumption that by such cowardly treason we should have been able to purchase a change of mind or a lasting peace from our enemies. On the contrary, they would soon enough have used a suitable opportunity to fall upon Germany, which then would have been completely isolated, and the struggle for our national existence would have had to be fought under conditions very much more favorable to our enemies.