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...Translations of it have already been arranged in Italian, Danish, Polish, Dutch and English. In this country the book will be published in the Spring. Alfred A. Knopf has just sent the manuscript to the printer, and Mr. Elmer Adler, noted typographer and designer, is at work preparing the jacket. "Joseph and His Brothers" is Thomas Mann's first novel since 1924, when "The Magic Mountain," was published...
...first-rate novel. I Went to Pit College will be an eye opener to anyone who supposes that a serious book about striking miners must be either a dreary factual study or hysterical propaganda. With no statistical tables. no sociological jargon, not even a photograph (except on the jacket), I Went to Pit College paints an authentic, unforgettable picture. To have taken a postgraduate course at "Pit College" is no mean feat in itself; on the strength of her masterly thesis Authoress Gilfillan has graduated magna cum laude. The mining town she picked, more or less at random...
Incidentally, the little volume is a delight to the eye and the hand, and a rebuke to the shoddy bookmaking of the big Eastern publishers in this economical day. The publishers' complete list inside the jacket is not impressive; but if they keep up the literary and crafts, manship standards of this book, there is no reason why men should not beat a path to their Caldwell, Idaho, door...
...course," said M. Haine. The man in tweeds put through his call and darted out into the night again. An hour and a half later he was back, with his knees muddy and his jacket torn...
...have to be told that he was going to Washington in behalf of a lost cause. Nothing could divert the Administration from its determination to put the Stock Exchange into a Federal straitjacket. All President Whitney could hope for in the political battle ahead was to keep that strait-jacket from squeezing the breath of life entirely out of the stock trading business...