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...LAST POST?Ford Madox Ford? A. & C. Boni ($2.50). The supreme ability of Author Ford, as displayed in all of his previous works, is that of implying the presence of profundities, tragedies, actions which he is presumably unable to state. His prolixity makes a dark and impenetrable screen around his stories; the only suspense is that of waiting for something to be said, something to happen. In The Last Post, as in the three preceding volumes (Some Do Not, No More Parades, A Man Could Stand Up) of the series which it concludes, the story veers and sways, the characters...
...Poor Gentleman' is a breathless tale, with many a sudden twist and hair-raising moment. The Shrewd ways by which Captain Shere overcame his handicap, for example, that gruesome life-or-death fight in the dark, when the blind man meets him on even terms, and the manner in which he turned it often to advantage in his contest with his able, if treacherous, adversaries are thrilling incidents in a story that Major Beith has told in his finest...
Citizens were startled. Was the Nicaraguan affair so grave that the grim-jawed top Marine of all must take command? An "official" report was published that General Lejeune's departure had been precipitated by a dark thing in the Marine Corps. Two Marine deserters, said the story, were teaching tricks of their trade to the rebel, Sandino...
...possible that Governor Smith's proposal, which you hailed as "a departure almost as notable in criminology as was the substitution of vaccine for leeches in the treatment of smallpox"-is it possible that this proposal is based on the outworn and unsatisfactory principle of the Dark Ages ? I believe, and I hope...
...record for the freshman cross country course, proving the superiority of runners over the orthodox track method. It is appropriate that in the middle of a Reading Period one should have again the Wordsworthian experience of trying to catch the moon, while it glimmers in the dark ice just ahead. Nature does not need to temper her wind to the shorn lamb, not to those whose shearing is close at hand. For the rugged body is almost as necessary as the stocked brain in approaching travail...