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...claimed as the founder of the 'Surrealiste' school, and in his unusual mind French symbolists have found inspiration for poems, Maeterlinck suggestions for dream-dramas, Jules'Verne a model for the quasi-scientific narrative of adventure, R. L. Stevenson the source for the pirate story, and Conan Doyle the pattern for detective fiction. . . . Mallarme and Valery, not to speak of Baudelaire, have recognized Poe as their master in aesthetics...
Last month Jeweler Samuels published a mighty two-page advertisement in San Francisco Sunday newspapers announcing a special one-day sale of Rogers & Bros, silver plate at $25 for a 50-piece set. The firm had once sold $10,000 worth of silverware in one pattern in a single day, said the advertisement, and had been quietly waiting for the proper time to break the record of $12,000 in one day held by another city. "Imagine our dismay then," continued "The House of Lucky Wedding Rings," "when the news reached us shortly thereafter, that on August...
...pattern of their lives is not, however, separated from the body of the book, nor is it the whole book. In the person of Vergil Harris. I find examplified a manner of handling character that has now come to be a fashion. Vergil has the habit of confusing time, of imagining himself back in his boyhood, of suffering again the persecutions of boyhood playmates. This may be a thoroughly accurate way of portraying weak characters. It is, at any rate, a favorite one with modern novelists: Joyce has used it. Whole books have been written by his imitators (Mr. Aiken...
...cachet of being chosen as the man in his class to serve Oliver Wendell Holmes for a year as that Supreme Court Justice's secretary. But Francis Biddle has not confined his activities since school days exclusively to the law. He has written a novel about Philadelphia (The Lanfear Pattern), book reviews, short stories. He has also busied himself in the interests of international amity and social justice for minorities. A member of the law firm of Barnes, Biddle & Myers, he even went so far as to undertake a case in behalf of some Pennsylvania dairy farmers against...
...merciless court of history that is to be made." "A nation," he said, "is a collection of people capable of self-government and cooperative enterprise in the national geographical theatre. It is not in the national interest to bring into the United States races that cannot fit into the pattern of national life and cooperate in discharging the necessary economic obligations. There is no advantage economic or otherwise by the sale of American goods abroad. The nation is enriched only by imports. Nationalism, quotas, and bounties are not perverse and ignorant concepts but come out of the delusion that selling...