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MICHAEL SCARLETT?James Gould Cozzens?A. & C. Boni ($2.00). Varlet and lord, playwright and swordsman, revel once more in a bold Elizabethan frolic. With wit and a rapier Michael Scarlett, young Earl of Dunbury, fought his way through stirring Elizabethan times. Marlowe, Nash, Shakespeare, Donne, Jonson, were his cronies. Essex and Southampton were his friends. Elizabeth's favor and her disfavor were his fortune. A fair lady was his love. And death was his portion, and Marlowe...
...Chamberlain: "It was the desire of His Majesty's Government to get into conference with the Governments of India and the Dominions. That was not found possible. I will make bold to say that it is totally impracticable to treat matters of this great consequence, covering so wide a range, by despatch or cable across thousands of miles of ocean. . . . The Dominions and India have been left free to take their own action. . . . The whole matter will be brought up at the next Empire Conference...
...curricular manner. A chance is thus given for both to know each other better than continuous weeks in classroom or lecture can allow. Indeed, friendships, often considered unattainable, have begun in this way--for even the most formidable of faculty lions is lamblike at ten. To the meek, the bold, the sad, the gay, today brings open sesame to Olympus--Olympus, two lumps and cream...
Indeed, the American debt commission for once has been bold enough to measure payments in terms not alone of money but of international good will. They have realized that a certain breadth of vision now means a chance to witness a more stable Italy of the future. This parley may rightfully be acclaimed one of great moment...
...Story begins with the bold, brusque strokes of a poster: the German quarter of New York about 1890; Anton Zwenge, a violin-mender; his mercurial wife; his manual-laboring friends. Frau Zwenge sells sheet music against her husband's will. With the years this business prospers, dislodges him from his workbench, drives him into a corner of her store. It is the same with his old friends. The cigarmaker's sons, the baker's, install machinery. Mass production, money, is the pulse of the city. There are immigrants by the thousand to buy, to push the older immigrants...