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Hitherto-since 1916-it has been illegal to barter paper francs for gold francs in France on any other basis than the legal fiction that one gold franc (always worth 19.3 cents or more) was worth one paper franc (once worth as little as 2.08 cents [TIME, July...
...Smiths are hurt, alarmed, until the flash is extinguished. Everlasting Smithness shows now as endless piddling, now as hope eternal. It ends as everlasting Smithness, a vegetable condition as happily comfortable as it is unadventurous. Symptomatic of the prevalence of Smithness are the prodigious sales, not only of romantic fiction for vicarious thrills, but of American Tragedies, dismal Main Streets and kindred counter-depressants. This book, which mirrors Smithness with shrewd, quaint brightness, will never have such sales. It is not among the Smiths' failings to stare at themselves in a looking glass, though they do like going...
...only the pope remains cloistered. Kings, queens, saints, quacks, and fiction writers swell the waiting list at Ellis Island. Though their critics tell them "fair is foul; they continue empiricists. And in so doing they lose the charm of regal remoteness to take their common place in the Sunday supplements of the prints with the retired wives of senile plutocrats, the defenders of ward politics, and the leading in dies in musical comedies. Nor is this to be wondered at. There is no reason why such trivial handicaps should force this continued residence among American tourists. Arrived here; Queen Marie...
SWEEPINGS-Lester Cohen-Bom & Liveright ($2.50). A new dynasty has been founded in U. S. fiction. Its name is Pardway. The roots strike back to Peter Aram Pardway's smithy in postRevolution New England. The great branches flourish in Chicago where Peter's grandsons, dry Daniel and black Thane, have amassed fortunes by the opening of the pres-ent century. Today the Pardways are decayed and blown to the earth's ends; in their author's figure, the pillars of their temple have crumbled, the roof crashed. Their tragedy is that Daniel, who alone had increase...
...There is much color, but it is plastered on in hurried, florid gobs. Author Cohen, to whom high praise is due for a tremendous task well tried, betrays his inexperience chiefly by distrusting his ability to write with care as well as power. All these shortcomings notwithstanding, U. S. fiction has a new dynasty: the Pardways. Author Cohen is a Mosaic young man, cast on a large frame, fleshy but solid, slow-spoken, positive. He stayed at the University of Chicago only a few weeks, "because I saw it was not the place for me. I had to learn things...