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After we have sped through a maze of humor, which makes up in quantity what it lacks in quality (as the saying goes), and if we have been able to speed through this maze of humor, we will light upon the second part of the book with great relish. The author has conveniently, though perhaps not wisely, divided into two sections the story of his wanderings up the valley of the Dinder River into the foothills of the Abyssinian border. The first he uses to question the reader and himself on "Why do men do it?; the second to answer...
After the revolution, John Paul Jones moved in a dazzling maze of intrigue and outcry. The Duchess of Chartres had helped him fit his ships, and he was a welcome figure in France, where he became an exquisite and a popinjay. Asked to Russia by Catherine the Great, he went there to gain new kudos in naval warfare and to blunder about, a Scottish bull in the china shop of Russian diplomacy. Then, one day, "a girl in her early teens came to his rooms and asked for garments to mend. When the porter had withdrawn, she 'began some...
...little mountains on the moors beyond the window. Famous and courtly figures, so long kenneled in their small dark house, peered over the shoulder of the reader; he saw them but his eyes continued their hesitating journey from left to right over the pages that were like a thin maze. A fashionable lady bowed at his elbow; Voltaire took snuff and made a face behind him. At last James Boswell Talbot gathered his ancestor's writings and put them back into the ebony...
...goings of the children next door. They have been her entire experience of life; of them she thinks or dreams; her thoughts are a tissue of memories,, remembrances of bright small faces, of intense childish devotions, of games of hide-and-seek, all woven together in a dark shining maze, blown and changing like the leaves on an autumn lawn. Then suddenly she hears that the children next door, grown up now, are coming back to live in the old house. Charlie, the most beautiful of them all, was killed in the War, but there will be Marietta, whom Charlie...
...through the maze of the literary market, with all financial short cuts plainly marked, will be drawn for 50 students at the Bread Loaf Conference, branch of Middlebury College (Vt.) summer session, which opened this week. "The interests of creative writing" are chiefly nurtured, say the bulletins. Actually the conference is unique in that it tells what the editors (who sign the checks) want. Long-maned poets, arriving to discover how to make poetry pay, will be told that poetry never pays.* People who "think they would like to write" will find themselves rudely face to face with a pencil...