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...spite of its intelligentsia title, this is a good and straightforward book. You should not let a little thing like the author's preciosity put you off it. The Coming Forth by Day of Osiris Jones is a brief, impressionistic, fairly comprehensive catalog of a man's life-a man not quite universal enough to be called Everyman, but typical enough to bear the name of Jones. In a note, Author Aiken explains he is indebted for the rest of his title to a translation of the Egyptian Book of the Dead, in which the deceased is always...
...catalog's scheme is ingenious. Two introductory poems set the stage, the scene: "... a shabby backdrop of bright stars: one of the small interstices of time." Then the itemized catalogs begin. First, The Costumes ("Item: a pair of infant's socks two inches long . . . Item: long trousers . . . Item: a tweed hat bought in England, green . . . Item: a coffin"). Then Characteristic Comments from: the nursery clock, the shoes, the fire, Shakespeare, Vivien, the desk, the prostitute, the heart. You hear Remarks on the Person of Mr. Jones from: the trained nurse ("it's a fine...
...statement of the comparison of numbers to which you refer will be found in the Historical Section in the catalog, copy of which 1 am forwarding, on p. 18. This statement reads as follows: "Colonel Fleet continued as Superintendent of the institution for fourteen years, the school under his direction growing steadily in size, and perfecting its methods and equipment. In the course oj twelve years, from a corps of thirty cadets, quartered in a frame building, and scarcely known within its own State, the Academy grew to an enrollment, including its winter and summer sessions, of 677 cadets, over...
Staunton's present enrolment: 646. Culver's: 685. TIME accepted a statement in Culver's catalog: ". . . 677 cadets, over double the number receiving military instruction in any other private school in the U. S." The catalog has not been brought up-to-date...
...house are eleven Frigidaires; electric buttons to open and close bedroom windows. On his yacht each stateroom has a dial telephone, a catalog of numbered phonograph records. The occupant can dial the number of a record, hear it played by radio. If the phonograph is busy, he may tune in on whatever is being played...