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QUITE contrary to the sweeping claim on the jacket of this book, Mr. Edwin C. Hill is not the inaugurator of a "new profession, that of the journalist historian". To the readers of "Our Times", of "Only Yesterday", of "Interpretations" any such assertion appears stupidly absurd. Before the appearance of "The American Scene" Mr. Hill was merely one of a number of pleasant voices and nimble wits which took advantage of the fact that there is small room for adjectives in the hasty columns of a metropolitan newspaper, that John Citizen is content to allow others to do his reading...
...given a wide berth by U. S. publishers and U. S. critics, but his European reputation is nothing to sneeze at. In bringing out the first U. S. edition of Pound's magnum opus alert Publisher Farrar shows that he has heard a thing or two. On the jacket of A Draft of XXX Cantos he quotes...
Sandwiched between other appeals to missing persons, the above jingle appeared one Sunday last month in the "agony columns" of Manhattan newspapers. Seasoned readers recalled Sunny Jim. He was the jolly old fellow with the brimless plug hat. the erect queue of white hair, the towering collar, red jacket and yellow waistcoat who advertised Force, the breakfast food, 30 years ago. Before eating Force he was a scowling grump named Jim Dumps (with hair queue drooping). A famed old jingle told his story...
When one considers these minute cameos with reference to Mr. Duff Cooper's production, he is led to suspect that the inspiration which fostered the writing of this book was very similar to that which would lead an elephant into a drawing room. The shoddy jacket blatantly insistent upon the literary value of sex and gambling is, of course, designedly misleading. But there is little relief between the covers. In his three hundred and fifty pages, Mr. Cooper apparently sets out to give a history of France over a period of eighty years, and to place incidental emphasis on Talleyrand...
...been highly praised, it is a reaction not unmixed with perplexity. There are in fact two possible comments on "The Colored Dome," and the position of its author in Irish literature, but the choice between them depends on certain information which is not usually contained in the cover jacket blurb. One would like to know whether this book was written, as it was published, after its author's recent success. "Pigeon Irsh," or whether it is an early work issued on the strength of the previous one. It was "Pigeon Irsh," which this reviewer has not read, that gave...