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...silent wraith. He seemed frail, apparently steadied himself by the desks, so that a sudden draught might not upset him. He paused to chat with this one, with that one, with La Follette, with Pat Harrison, and then retired to recline in the background with legs stretched out and jacket tightly buttoned...
SONNETS AND VERSE?Hilaire Belloc ?McBride ($2.75). The jacket blurb announces that the author has here collected, with a few exceptions, "all his poems which he wishes to preserve." Some of them justify the lifted eye-brow which would query "Why?" Regrettable pages of triviality are interspersed with redeeming gleams of lyric beauty...
...square inch, or over four times the maximum pressure possible a decade ago, is imminent. The use of mercury turbines which, although dangerous to the extreme, would save infinite leakage of heat is the second of these experiments. The third is a new internal combustion engine involving a water jacket which would eliminate the necessary high temperatures of our present engines and which would use the steam for several different purposes at the same time. "Complete disaster in any or all of these experiments is possible," Professor Davis concluded, "but the material advantage to be gained from anyone of them...
...PRISONER WHO SANG-Johan Bojer-Century ($2.00). Enthusiastically heralded by its jacket blurb as "A Peer Gynt in prose," this is the story of a Norwegian of many aliases, a strange lad who wanders through the countryside impersonating now a preacher, now a young actor, now a decrepit bank messenger-a "long procession of persons, created by himself, and every one of them fleeing before the police." Sometimes he grew anxious for their safety. And the reader assuredly grows dizzy. Bojer has a graphic, stark style, a trick of creating atmosphere in a single sentence...
...portraiture: Hopkinson's Secretary Hughes, Childe Hassam's Governor Alfred E. Smith, of New York, Edmund C. Tarbell's Mary at the Harpsichord, Lillian Westcott Hale's child portrait study of Brothers, Frank Benson's Girl in Blue Jacket, and Marion Boyd Allen's presentment of Anna Vaughn Hyatt...