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Author Pratt subtitles his book "an informal history." Written with a colloquial enthusiasm that will not recommend it to more academic historians, Ordeal by Fire has no theory to grind, parades its swift narrative of the war years in a series of graphic scenes. It opens in the dingy bridal suite of a Philadelphia hotel in February 1861, with Lincoln, the President-elect, listening to Detective Pinkerton's warnings of the plot to assassinate him as he passes through Baltimore next day. The outlines of Author Pratt's story are familiar to every schoolboy, but he vitalizes...
Married. Helen Hall, fortyish, director of Manhattan's Henry Street Settlement, president of the National Federation of Settlements; and Paul Underwood Kellogg, 55, editor of The Survey and The Survey Graphic; in Jersey City...
...weakening to the student body of that college. A mural, whether it is good or bad, is no more morally weakening to the beholder than is "Gulliver's Travel's" to the reader. No student will be made any more immoral than he already is by looking at a graphic representation of the development of an American civilization, whether it is well done or not. As the writer is representing Harvard--which spends a good deal of its time delving into local college history and perpetuating local tradition,--he is certainly in no position to reprimand Dartmouth for having...
...this book, which consists of lectures delivered in connection with the Exhibition of British Art at Burlington House in January 1934, Fry was faced with the acid test of his career. The British Isles have never fostered or produced the kind of distinction in the graphic and plastic arts which one would ordinarily expect, in view of the success of English poetry...
LITERARY, graphic, and musical attempts to crystallize the many-faceted gem of American metropolises, New York, have been many and in some cases highly skillful. Now Agnes Rogers has arranged her New York into a book of photographs, assembled with superb judgment from the huge incoherent mass of subjects which the great city presents. Lower Manhattan at dawn, Scarsdalers waiting herd-like for the 8.52; a homeless drunk sprawled on the sidewalk, semi-human sardines jammed into the subway; Mrs. $25,000-a-year-executive smugly viewing the man-made greenness of the Bronx River Parkway; Miss $15-a-week...