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In the minor essays which follow "Variations on a Philosopher," Mr. Huxley treats of art, religion, prisons, and food shortages. His demonstration that art and religion bear almost no relation to each other at a given period of history is challenging and witty. "Man and society are, doubtless, wholes; but...
Although many of the department heads answering the poll admitted that there are in many instances intra-staff differences of opinion, all asserted that their departments as wholes generally share the same viewpoint.
Taken as wholes, each of these stories is almost as warm, as living, as persuasive, as if a first-rate writer had written them. But they have a woman-magazine-overtone, a sort of moral odor of Ivory Soap which gets oppressive. Thus tuned for housewives, the high quotient of...
TO STEP ASIDE-Noel Coward-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Actors, writers, wistful perverts, celebrity-hounds, the occupants of cheap rooming houses, are the creatures of Noel Coward's seven stories. In detail, at times, almost indecently sharp-eyed and entertaining, as wholes they are poor in ratio to their seriousness...
Such reasoning drives General Smuts to an emotional conclusion: "Great as is the physical universe which confronts us as a given fact, no less great is our reading and evaluation of it in the world of values, as seen in language, literature, culture, civilization, society and the state, law, architecture...