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...Author- Dorothy Whipple was born some 30-odd years ago, in the midst of her Lancashire material, even more in the midst of a large & lively family. Grown-up enough to do her bit when the War came, she tried to be a Red Cross nurse, but ''fainted at operations, cried when the patients cried, and was sick when they were sick, so that was no use." She went into an office instead, married her boss, who is now Director of Education for Nottingham. Greenbanks, which was the September choice of the English Book Society, is her third...
...still in spirit, as the Radcliffe News-Daily, but the spark which made her is gone, for she appears only thrice a week, and has lost her trim slimness. She has time before each issue to wipe her spectacles, arrange the knot on the back of her head a bit more neatly, and write a reflective editorial full of concise, trenchant phrases about poetry and politics, or war debts. It is thus that she has lost caste. There was a day, in the years gone by, when she hurriedly threw aside her books, dashed off a splendid bit about riots...
...duty. Such an organization would not be complicated by ideals. Its is not difficult to get a Marine to fight, whether it be for one nation, or for the peace of the world. With a dangerously efficient world police in mind, the desire of one nation to annex a bit of another's territory would be lulled into inactivity. Unfortunately such a method of enforcement would work only with almost complete disarmament the world over, when it would be scarcely more necessary than a police squad in Paradise. The first necessity it to attain our international Paradise, after which...
...they did not seem enough to blast loose the rock of discontent sunk deep in the electorate at large. The last week of the Republican campaign was much like the first-only hotter. Every member of the Cabinet except Attorney General Mitchell (a nominal Democrat) had done his bit and more for the President. At Dayton Secretary of State Stimson proclaimed President Hoover "a real fighting Quaker, thoroughly aroused, smashing down his opponents' positions one by one with irresistible logic." Secretary of the Treasury Mills had worn his voice down to a hoarse croak. Secretary of Agriculture Hyde, unable...
FAREWELL Miss JULIE LOGAN-J. M. Barrie-Scribner ($1). Not many authors and fewer poets know when to retire. Notable exception is Alfred Edward Housman who, at the age of 63, published his Last Poems and has stuck by his announcement. Sir James Matthew Barrie has certainly done his bit for the world of letters; readers, without actually thinking him dead, may well have thought him finished. But now, after nearly 30 years (in which he has written 14 plays but no stories) comes a little Scottish fairy tale as neat as a pin, bright as a button, sentimental...