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GALLOWS' ORCHARD-Claire Spencer- Cape & Smith...
...Author Spencer's first novel, yet it has been chosen by the Book-of-the-Month Club for April in preference to such books as Author Elizabeth Madox Roberts' The Great Meadow (TIME, March 3).* Book-of-the-Month selectors defend their choice by comparing Gallows' Orchard to the work of the late great Robert Louis Stevenson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Thomas Hardy...
Written in a style more reminiscent of Author Richard Doddridge Blackmore (Lorna Doone) or of Bonn Byrne, Gallows' Orchard yet has in it something of the fateful quality of Hardy, something of the imminence of Hawthorne, something of the easy narrative of Stevenson...
...poor farmer" in the United States or Germany. Over the breadth and sweep of Russia, conditions are variable. To accord with these varying conditions, a Kulak has been defined by law as a peasant who uses hired labor or machinery, who rents house or room, leases land or orchard, or engages in trade, speculation, "or any other source of non-productive income, including income as religious or secular employees of churches...
...Yang Hsin Palace of the Forbidden City. There he was presented with delicate, imperial porcelains and dubbed "Grand Abbot of Ching-Chung Monastery," traditional title bestowed by the Manchu Emperors on their favorite actors. He was also allowed to retain the title "Foremost of the Pear Orchard" which is derived from the fact that during the T'ang Dynasty court actors called themselves "Disciples of the Pear Orchard" because they performed in a palace bordered with pear trees. Few would deny any title, however lofty, to a man who, in addition to being supreme in his art, can command...