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Argentina. Like the flash that precedes the thunder, the Prince of Wales' chauffeur arrived in Buenos Aires to study the capital preparatory to driving his royal master about it. The Prince is expected from Uruguay...
...night King Ludwig of Bavaria drove alone up the black highroad to Bayreuth to pay tribute at the grave of the dead Wagner; of the multitude of famed musicians, soloists in their own right, who accept a bare living wage at Bayreuth to offer their Art to the Master; of the beer profiteers at the Festspiel-hauser; of the shaggy, the swollen little man, lying on his back in the garden, with earth in his beard and the roots of flowers in his eyes-thinking...
Tracked in the Snow Country. Best of all the cinema dogs is Rin-Tin-Tin. He is herein occupied in joining a pack of wolves with whom he is presumably related and tracking the fanged fury who killed his master. All in the cold countries. Good if you like canine romances...
...Book. A figure beturbaned with a flowered silk handkerchief, swaddled in layers of woolly night-garments, growls among the bolsters of a four-poster like Little Red Riding Hood's grandmother. Josephine, the grumbling cook and masterful mistress, who dominates the progress of physical events in the Villa Said, draws the blinds and scoffs her master's self-pity for a feverish night. He swallows his chocolate, demolishes brioches. To this mistress, later his wife, Anatole France is a dithering old goat-beard, incapable of putting on his own underdrawers...
...Brousson gulped with awe, despite bracers of cognac, on the morning of his first interview. He hid behind France's library ladder, fled unnoticed among other callers. France sent for him, took to his shyness. "How much do you earn?" "Nothing." "I will double your salary." And the master was rewarded for his kindness by modesty, honesty, devotion. Translator Pollock is admirably literal...