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...years ago Henry Louis Mencken was the god of U. S. liberal undergraduates, his lightest obiter dicta the unquestioned orders of their day. With a new. generation his authority has waned until now he appears an old-fashioned orthodox heretic. The men-of-straw he buffeted to the yelling delight of his admirers have by this time had such a bludgeoning that they look more like scarecrows than opponents. But he still goes on pounding the stuffing out of bogeymen that once seemed giants. Treatise on Right & Wrong, a companion piece to Treatise on the Gods, is Iconoclast Mencken...
...those who enjoy romantic lapses into the eighteenth century with elusive visions of elegant soirees with flickering tapers and the sparkling tones of the clavichord, the recording of Hadyn's "Concerto en Fa pour clavecin et orchestre" should be an especial delight. A small orchestra accompanies Mme. Roesgen-Champion in such a manner that the clavecin and the timbres of the woodwinds and strings blend together unusually well. There is no profundity in this bit of Haydn; even the andante is a very short and simple tune. "His Master's Voice" has also released a recording of Bach's Double...
Fields of sport were forsaken by the athlete players in the cast last night when the show was put on for the benefit of undergraduate and graduate club members. Clad in flowing chiffon, the sturdy thespians tripped the light fantastic to the delight of the audience and many a leg far better suited to gain yard age on the gridiron executed the most intricate dance steps. Wood nymphs, sylphs, and fauns frolicked through artificial forests and supported with pounds of grease paint their statement in the afternoon that they agreed with belief that men are more beautiful than women...
...announced in 1929 that he would write no more of the Biography of the Life of Manuel. Now 54, Author Cabell has found it impossible to change his spots. A much-gnawed bone of contention, with little marrow left. Author Cabell can still rouse his faithful followers to delight. Considered by himself and his admirers the most polished of U. S. writers, Cabell is often accused of writing in Wardour St. style-defined by Lexicographer H. W. Fowler as "... a selection of oddments calculated to establish (in the eyes of some readers) their claim to be persons of taste & writers...
Incidentally, the little volume is a delight to the eye and the hand, and a rebuke to the shoddy bookmaking of the big Eastern publishers in this economical day. The publishers' complete list inside the jacket is not impressive; but if they keep up the literary and crafts, manship standards of this book, there is no reason why men should not beat a path to their Caldwell, Idaho, door...