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...book, "Looking Backward," is used today in many colleges. Hundreds of Bellamy Associations, made up persons interested not only in reading his works, spread his ideas...
...BACKWARD GLANCE-Edith Wharton -Appleton-Century ($3). Few writers of any sex or class have been so handicapped as Edith Newbold Jones Wharton. Born a woman, a lady, and rich, she somehow managed to make herself into an almost first-rate author. Few better exhibitions of eating cake and still having it have ever been put on. Now an old lady (72), Author Wharton takes a backward glance over her traveled road, reports in carefully cultivated prose what she has seen along the way. Being a lady, she has forgotten some things and people. Her road, once friendly with many...
...President Frank B. Noyes, publisher of the rich and flaccid Washington Star, was quick to point to the stripe of the opposition. Competitors Hearst and Scripps-Howard were always backward about cooperating with AP projects, said he, and "it is the difference of interests that is concerned here...
...OPPERMANNS-Lion Feuchtwangcr -Viking ($2.50). One result of the Nazis' anti-Semite campaign has been to bring Historical-Novelist Feuchtwanger up to date. His best book, Power, was set in the 18th Century, and though Success was a contemporary record it was written from the backward-looking vantage of an historian. But in The Oppermanns Author Feuchtwanger no longer writes as a cool observer of barbarous times but as a member of an injured race. This story of what has been happening to the Jews in Germany will perhaps be taken by Nazi-sympathizers as special pleading. Plain readers...
...full half hour Felix Youssoupov played the guitar and sang gypsy songs while Rasputin calmly licked his fingers and showed no ill effects. Finally he let out a great roar and tumbled over backward...