Word: formative
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Recently a World Topics Corporation has been formed to take over the magazine and this week it is being issued as a monthly, similar in format to Asia. The new editor: John Bakeless, onetime Managing Editor of the Forum and weekly contributor to TIME...
...Death in Venice, a collection of long short stories, than for his two-volume "naturalistic" Buddenbrooks, and The Magic Mountain, another lengthy fictionized philosophy. One is therefore the more surprised that he produces Children and Fools, a collection of actual short stories. And pleasantly surprised, because the briefer format is better adapted to carry the even tenor of sad beauty that pervades all of Mann's writings, and is unbearably sustained in his long novels...
...issue of this remarkable book, one of the world's great and permanent autobiographies, in a smaller format and at less than half price, is a literary event of first importance. The Education of Henry Adams is one of the most entrancing books of the century, it is a veritable treasure house of joy to the reader, it has gone through twenty-five printings and this new and cheaper edition should find an even wider audience...
This edition of the Rubaiyat, brought out by the Shakespeare Head Press, will please the most exacting reader. The format is the product of the greatest care in arrangement and composition, while the decorations have been drawn especially for the text. As an example of the printer's art, it will satisfy all who wish to see one of the great classics issued in a form which does it justice...
Over the reader who flipped the pages of Your Body stole the conviction that some "radio bug" must have conceived it and dictated its format. The suspicion appeared well-grounded. Though several of the contributors are M.D.'s, the president of the concern which publishes Your Body is Hugo Gernsback. Even before the days of "radio," his Electrical Experimenter was a magazine which catered to the "electrical bugs" who were the forerunners of the "radio bugs...