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...experience of Yale, if no more than a fiction, is a lesson for all time. With the pride of erudition, it sponsors chose for its motto a high-sounding Hebrew phrase; but instead of some such noble sentiment as "Lux et Veritas", malicious scholars are rumored to have proved that the phrase means "Farmers and Swindlers". Namers of summer cottages, and all others who are lured by the lust for distinctive words, will do well to take warning. A spade is not always a spade...
...assumption that " the Constitution follows the flag" is held to be " a figure of speech and a fiction " as far as the high seas are concerned...
...Significance. A rapid, interesting story, revealing, with satire and veracity, the hidden, unacknowledged mechanics of our governmental machine?centered about a typically American character not much dealt with in recent fiction, the vivacious modern buccaneer who neither saves his pennies nor makes any genuine contribution to the world, but is enormously successful nevertheless...
Quite different from recent fiction appears an ambitious attempt by Robert Cutler, a Harvard graduate in the class of 1916, to cover, in a novel of four hundred pages, "American life" and to cover it in all its complexity. "The Speckled Bird" is the Kaleidoscopic result. We are given a formal and appropriate introduction to a stiff New England household which had existed untarnished for more than three centuries: we are allowed to sit at the luxurious table of an unpolished but kindly Irish financier who had survived two panics and who now entertained a host of uncouth "hangers...
FIERY PARTICLES-C. E. Montague -Doubleday ($1.75). The English author of Disenchantment, one of the editors of the famous Manchester Guardian, here turns his hand to fiction. He shows a vivid and versatile talent in writing two Irish sketches, three stories of the war, a newspaper tale, a literary burlesque, a story of mountain climbing and a shuddery horror tale. Mr. Montague shows humor, irony, sympathy. He understands the soldier as well as Kipling, though his sympathies do not run to war. He is never impersonal: he intrudes in the story with ironic or humorous remarks. The book...