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When James Branch Cabell published The Way of Echen, thereby putting his "final and finishing touch to the Biography of the life of Manuel," Cabellians every-where assumed that their author had wrapped his singing robes over his head and retired till kingdom come. Pending that happy advent, however, the creator of Poictesme must find means to ease his very restless head. To combine retirement with activity he now speaks his mind through a ventriloqual figure. Branch Cabell, sheared of his Christian name, is in all other respects his spit and image...
...Germany right now; the whole industrial and commercial system is practically paralyzed, and there is a population half that of the United States in an area three-quarters that of Texas, with no expansion possible. Naturally, with conditions such as these, there is a considerable danger of the advent of communism, but Adolf Hitler is the one man best able to prevent...
...little volume entitled "Eminent Victorians" swept over England. Theretofore the Victorian age had been a sad business full of inhibitions and morality, the study for psychologists and professors of literature, the butt of disillusioned liberalism. But with the advent of this book into the world the dying years of the Nineteenth Century became an intensely human period peopled by men and women of flesh and blood. Lytton Strachey with his sardonlc pen had traced in a handful of fascinating actors upon a stage where before there had been only a dingy backdrop. But his contribution to literature was even greater...
...advent of Ballyhoo had nothing to do with Life's change, according to the publishers. Newsstand sales did suffer in the week of Ballyhoo's first issue (TIME, July 6) but they have been slightly above normal since then, possibly because Ballyhoo stimulated the demand for funny magazines...
Last week, four weeks after its impressive advent upon the national banking scene, National Credit Corp. made a report about itself, told how it was getting on, what it was doing. John Maffit Miller Jr., N. C. C. director in the Fifth Federal Reserve District (Richmond, Va.) arose before the Investment Bankers Association in convention at White Sulphur Springs and reported...