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Nearly everyone who won the War has now been heard from. The mysterious and importunate friend who always urges statesmen to write their memoirs has finally prevailed on David Lloyd George. His first two fat volumes (918 pp.), telling his side of the story through 1916, are written with that shrewd candor and political zest that are as much his hall-mark as his bright eyes, flowing mane and bourgeois mustache. Historians should find these volumes of a challenging usefulness; literary critics will rate them as above the average for a non-professional writer; plain readers, who will find them...
...Were I an advertiser requiring national circulation, I could not bring it upon myself to use the pages of TIME after reading "Dysentery in Chicago," pp. 29-30, your issue Nov. 20. It was most unfair...
...certain amount of skepticism. ... I tried it out on some young people. . . . They had exactly the same attitude that the older men had had. But a few of them had Mr. Marconi's attitude. . . ." The book which Mrs. Roosevelt is talking about is Prohibiting Poverty, a 131-pp. volume by a Mrs. Prestonia Mann Martin of Florida. Mrs. Martin, 71, is a onetime Fabian Socialist, wife of a lecturer at individualistic Rollins College (Winter Park, Fla.). At Rollins Mrs. Martin had lectured on her National Livelihood Plan. Her preamble is as follows: ALL OF THE NATION'S YOUNG...
...American Bible" (TIME. Nov. 30, 1931). Soon afterwards they began work on a condensation of this which Professor Goodspeed finished alone. Professor Smith dying in 1932. Last week The Short Bible was published as Book-of-the-Fall ($2) of the University of Chicago Press. Edited down to 545 pp. from the 2,000 pp. of a standard Bible, it is a book for reading, gaily bound in red cloth to emphasize its unchurchliness. Short Bibles, revised Bibles and vulgate Bibles are by no means new-the King James version (1611) was undoubtedly strikingly modern in its time...
...torn writer's spleen, his disgust with the England he loves too well, abated not a whit. If there is less bile in All Men Are Enemies, if it seems a bit less malicious than the previous Aldington novels, it is because it is longer (574 pp.), less direct, padded. Author Aldington is finding it increasingly difficult to pick off the remaining bowling pins of pre-War cant and hypocrisy, having already sent the bulk of them crashing oft the alley...