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From such blissful ruminations he traveled on to Vienna where he arrived ''too late." Frau Sacher, proprietress of the city's most famed restaurant had died, leaving Author Hergesheimer with only second-rate objectives. He made the most of Vienna's 38 varieties of coffee, all "superlative," but concluded that...
Big, broad, jovial and aggressive, Dr. Sigerist is just half the age of the man he succeeds-41. Born in Paris of Swiss parents, he studied philology before medicine, specialized in Oriental languages. He speaks and thinks in German, French, Italian, English, can write in most of the others. He...
Readers who like to take their summer literary pabulum cradled in a hammock will find Authoress Eliat's Oriental tale breezy enough to keep them rocking comfortably. Perfumed with voluptuous myrrh and frankincense, it subtly insinuates a more acrid wind that whispers:-Vanity, all is vanity. "Except the next...
Hiding the glaring impossibilities of their plots behind the still more glaring unreality of their characters is a prerogative of mystery writers that constitutes many a mystery writer's entire stock-in-trade. A welcome exception is Author Gunther, who peoples his well-written murder story with characters recognizably...
Average Occidentals who possess an old piece of almost any kind of Oriental pottery are apt to believe firmly that it is "antique Satsuma." Connoisseurs reject as probably spurious any large piece, since the ancient Satsuma craftsmen whose work is so highly prized confined themselves almost exclusively to small pieces...