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Mihai, said to a U. S. citizen not a correspondent : "You may quote me with full authority as saying that Mihai is not abnormal in any way. He is neither backward nor precocious. He is not deaf. Sometimes it seems to his mother [Prin-cess Helen] and me that Mihai can be very absent-minded about remembering to do as he is told. But what normal child is not? . . . "Some of the American rotogravures, I believe, have printed pictures of my grandson with the statement that my pet name for him is 'Madcap Mihai' or even...
...MIRROR FOR WITCHES - Esther Forbes-Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). Child of witches burned in Brittany, Bilby's Doll is haunted in Salem by the stench of their burning flesh, remembers their Black Masses, and says the Lord's Prayer backward. Thereupon the impish child is accused of withering the fruit of her foster-mother's womb, and of casting a fatal ailment upon her beloved foster-father. When God ignores her challenge that He restore this good man's life, she believes herself indeed a witch, and sets herself weirdly to learning the trade. Straws and hairs...
Finally there is a source of unending difficulty and annoyance to Freshmen, both advanced and backward, which might largely be obviated. The present language requirements force numerous Freshmen at Harvard to take two essentially elementary language courses, while few in the class escape one such course. Whether they choose to meet these requirements through course credits or not, most students regard them as simply barriers in their college path to be surmounted by the easiest method possible. As few men consider them means toward linguistic attainment as actually learn one to say nothing of two language because of their imposition...
...Alexandra M. Kollontai, who had come from her post as Ministress to Norway especially to attend Queen Thuraya. Their conversation was presumably "advanced," for Mme. Kollontai is an avowed, die-hard exponent of free love, while Her Majesty, a tireless educator, is easily the most emancipated woman in backward Afghanistan. Both these sagacious ladies paid small heed to President Kalinin, whom ignorant peasants affectionately call the "Little Father," as they once did the Tsar. The Queen and the Ministress know that Comrade Kalinin is but a willing and placid figurehead, who serves to mask the activities of seclusive Soviet Dictator...
...Dawn Powell—'Brentano ($2.50). There is a theory, which many U. S. writers and critics clasp tightly in their teeth, that the Great American Novel will come, like young Lochinvar, out of the Great Middle West. As a result, the saga of Gopher Prairie has been rewritten backward, forward, and on the head of a pin. In its latest form it is the story, mainly, of Dorrie Shirley, a sensitive little girl who had a warm disposition, a prim and unsympathetic sister called Linda, and a grandmother called "Aunt Jule," who ran a ramshackle hotel in an Ohio...