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...FRENCH REVOLUTION IN ENGLISH HISTORY-Philip Anthony Brown -Button ($3.00). Philip Brown was a young Oxford graduate who died a soldier's death on the fields of Flanders in 1915 in his 30th year. Prof. Gilbert Murray, famed Greek scholar, pays ample tribute to his great intellectual gifts in a short introduction...
Today the soldier has still to be recruited. Instead of loot, he is promised a voyage to parts of the great outside world. He is shown on dazzling posters the life that may be his when he is off duty. Looting is not mentioned, as are not drill, fatigues, button-cleaning, etc. In most armies, in fact, looting is a crime...
...QUAINT COMPANIONS ? Leonard Merrick?Button...
QUEEN CALAFIA-Vicente Blasco Ibanez-Button ($2.00). Ibanez has had excellent motion pictures made from at least two of his romances. The shadow of the silver screen is never lifted from this one. The plot is based on the legend of an Amazonian queen who loved her bitterest foe. In modern Madrid, Conchita Douglas, a woman of spectacular proportions who did not hesitate to demolish bare-handed a sinewy gentleman who caused her annoyance, fell in love with the son of an old enemy. Realizing that she was too old for him, she resolved to sacrifice herself, told him (falsely...
MEMORIES-The Rt. Hon. Viscount Long of Wraxall-Button ($7.50). Lord Long, better known in Britain as Walter Long, comes from a class that is known as the "landed gentry." In this book he reviews his career from the nursery floor to the floor of the House of Commons, which he not so many years ago left for the House of Lords. His career is not particularly interesting for the simple reason that Long is not a particularly interesting man; but his incidental descriptions of human society during the Victorian and Edwardian ages are full of point and show with...