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BABER, OR THE LOST YEARS- Jacob Wassermann (Translated by Harry Hansen)-Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). The author of Gold and The World's Illusion towers on the European scene as a very great novelist. His concern is with the spiritual crises of deep, positive natures under the stresses and distortions of post-War civilization in Germany. Here his framework is the Enoch Arden dilemma: a War prisoner home from Siberia after six years, finds his wife married to a charitable cause. She has been transformed from a warm, passive complement to his life into an active self-sufficient woman...
...students have, to all appearances, known little and cared less about the conduct of foreign affairs. War enthusiasm seemed to have exhausted all their interest in Europe as a political laboratory; only lately have they begun to realize again that the relation of the United States with foreign powers concern them vitally...
...organization. . . . Or was it the intention to be recorded as in favor of further punishment of the three outlaw baseball players, who have been sentenced and served that penalty for the crime that Judge Landis said they committed? Whether these baseball players were guilty or not guilty is no concern of ours. However, we do know that they have paid the penalty for the alleged crime committeed...
...Dalton was once a "poor underpaid boy on Cleveland's ore docks." Now he is manager of Pickands, Mather & Co., a large ore and shipping concern, and President of the Interstate Steamship Co., operators of the second largest fleet on the Great Lakes. He is an engineer familiar with shipping problems and also a competent business man. Cleveland calls him "the silent iron-king...
...fall of rain for many weeks. The climax came when the old couple learned of their daughter's dereliction. At about the same moment there came the patter of raindrops on the roof. The dusty years through which rain for the crops had come to be their cardinal concern had their effect. They cheered for the rain and forgot the family honor...