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Widener reading room was quiet except for the labored scratching of pens. Vag looked around and yawned. He surveyed the room, which, in contrast with the blue sky and sunlight outside, looked gloomier than ever. Across the table someone was busily taking notes on a big, red book called "The...
> The girl ad, which had lost both dignity and raiment in its evolution from the patrician '205 to the leggy '403 (see cut), shows a sharp decline in popularity. > Color photography, once thought to spell the doom of hand-painted illustration, runs neck & neck with its rival. >The...
Much information and an occasional twinge are provided the layman in the newly published History and Evolution of Surgical Instruments by Dr. C. J. S. Thompson (Schumann's; $8.50). Among many practical saws, knives and pincers illustrated therein, none is more interesting in a mechanical way than the 17th...
This is a timely description of the evolution, habits, hopes and hates of a long-neglected U.S. fauna, the intelligentsiac lefties. It is probably the most readably realistic novel yet written about them, because humorless Author Hicks takes these strange creatures almost as seriously as they take themselves. For the...
Next came The Education of Henry Adams and John Dewey's Democracy and Education. Henry James's Golden Bowl edged out his brother's Principles of Psychology for 13th place, and Lenin's Imperialism; the State and Revolution nosed out his master Marx's Das...