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...Calcutta, Mukerji, in Caste (the first section), is able to give a most interesting and obviously veracious account of a certain section of Indian life-something of which even the cleverest of Occidental writers have been able to describe no more than the externals. " An intricate and age-old pattern of life, from sudden sunrise through fervid noon to the heavy fall of night and silence...
...Story. Kai Lung, wandering philosopher and teller of tales in the days before China was troubled by the ways of Western civilization, fell into converse-and love-in the course of his peregrinations with a pleasant willow-pattern young lady nicknamed the "Golden Mouse"-and in the very same day acquired the undying enmity of the execrable Ming-Shu, chief henchman of the Mandarin Shan Tien. Kai Lung was brought to the Mandarin for judgment. "He raised his rebellious voice," remarked the prosecutor unpleasantly. "The usual remedy in such cases ... is strangulation." Everything was ready for the necktie-party, when...
...perhaps as much to opposition to the specialization of that institution as to hostility to Dr. Atwood's methods. And a great deal can doubtless be said for the specialization of various universities. There is no reason why all colleges and universities should be cut to the same pattern. On the contrary educational institutions are chiefly valuable for their singularities. The rush to turn colleges into universities and to duplicate in each university the work of the next has not justified itself in the East and there is no reason to suppose that it will be more successful...
...typical example of the all too well-known "hokum" of the Indian and the White man in the "silent purple wastes of the Arizona desert" even including the special "Indian" music. It is followed by a pseudo-historical play, "Napoleon's Barber" by Arthur Caesar, of a familiar pattern. The third play, "Goat Alley" by Ernest Howard Culbertson, is saved from being sheer melodrama by its characterization. Floyd Dell's scintillating little comedy "Sweet and Twenty" and "Tickless Time" by Susan Glaspell and George Cram Cook, though the latter is more or less trick writing, are highly amusing...
...first of his wife, "the mollusk," fat, superstitious, whose voice "held the habitual tone of a bagpipe collapsing." Then there is Mrs. Crum, hard-working mother-in-law, whose voice was "an echo of the spirit of '76," a not altogether unamiable creature. Young Eddie follows the general literary pattern of small boys. He tries to chloroform the cat, gets bad marks at school, is beloved. The daughter, Adelaide, is the high spot of the Pinney family. She is gifted with a budding intelligence which begins to blossom under the beneficent influence of her pleasant if uninteresting romance with...