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Challenge to Hell...
...England with his daughter-south to Marseille, to Africa, to the Italian islands, to Berlin. He doubled and twisted cunningly to shake off the dreaded pursuer, but his hope dwindled. One night he gave himself away by getting drunk and writing a letter to his enemy, addressing it to Hell but in care of the proper London business address. After that it was only a matter of time before the pursuer found his hiding place. At last Wace went to earth in Berlin, smuggled himself into his daughter's apartment and decided never to go out. Even there Sharpies...
DESOLATE MARCHES-L. M. Nesbitt- Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Account of an
engineering trip through northern Venezuela, by the author of
Hell-Hole of Creation (TIME, March 25), who was killed last July in
an airplane crash in Switzerland. ADVENTURES IN REPUTATION - Wilbur
Cortez Abbott-Harvard University Press ($2.50). Brief but penetrating
sketches of Macaulay, Lord Chesterfield, Queen Victoria, Cromwell et
al. AMERICAN NEUTRALITY, 1914-1917- Charles Seymour-F
...desert regions, blazing and scorching some 8,000 ft. below the plateau toward the sea, are the Hell-Holes of Creation, inhabited by tribes of extraordinary hardihood and savagery. Explorers report that "some of these peoples have never heard of Haile Selassie." It is they who today with complete impartiality harry, snipe at and loot any small detachment of soldiers, be they Ethiopian or Italian...
...Beerbohm, merry British author and caricaturist, returned from his Italian expatriation to tell Londoners: "London has been cosmopolitanized, democratized, commercialized, mechanized, standardized and vulgarized. One feels, in showing London to a foreigner, rather as Virgil may have felt in showing hell to Dante. It is a bright, cheerful, salubrious hell, certainly, but still, to my mind, hell...