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Each of the five Assistant Chiefs is selected to advise the Chief within a special field. They are picked for intellect rather than exploits. All of the present Assistants (see pp. 16 & 17) are veterans of both the Spanish-American and World Wars, though none has commanded a division in the field. Two out of five are non-West Pointers, a just proportion since the ratio of Military Academy graduates to non-graduates among Army officers is about...
Only an average-length novel (255 pp.), He Sent Forth a Raven took Author Roberts five years to write, makes correspondingly slow reading. Author Roberts' tricks of style, which include a growing fondness for the ablative absolute, have hardened into a mannered manner that is more poetry than prose. And her narrative, never rapid, has turned more descriptive, more rhapsodic than ever Her people do a deal of "looken, thinken," but spend most of their time "talken." When Stoner Drake's second wife died, he solemnly vowed never to set foot on God's green earth again...
Rose Macaulay's brief (153 pp.) study of Milton is a neat literary lecture. Though her biography, like Author Belloc's, is well this side idolatry, she seems more awed by the grandeur of the Miltonic tradition, approaches his fame with an informed but sight-seeing mind. She does not share Belloc's sturdy contempt for Milton's rodomontadinous prose, sees in some of it "Milton at his extraordinary best and worst, splendid, exasperating, scurrilous, moving, repulsive, and grandiose by turns...
...argument-settlers, and as an editor of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, he was so personally retiring, "so shadowy to the public that even at the Clarendon Press there were only two persons who had just once seen his face and heard his voice." This pamphlet-biography (60 pp.) by his life-long friend, George Gordon Coulton, is a little British masterpiece, a Goodbye, Mr. Chips come true...
With brief text (59 pp.), 208 photographs (mostly of the square-rigger Parma, on which he sailed in 1933), he tells the soon-to-be-historic story of the dwindling fleet that still annually rounds the Horn on the long passage from Australia to England...