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NIGGER HEAVEN - Carl Van Vechten - Knopf ($2.50). Sullen-mouthed, silky-haired Author Van Vechten has been playing with Negroes lately; writing prefaces tor their poems, having them around the house, going to Harlem.^ They have been his latest fad, just as cats, perfumes, precious stones were his fads before. And now he seems to have sickened of Negroes. In this story about high and low brownskins in Harlem and Atlantic City he shows Negroes wallowing in extreme depravity. He makes the comparatively chaste, intelligent heroine most unhappy. The hero, an ambitious graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, is discouraged, disillusioned...
...signifies a yoke. In the Eastern Church instead of being a strip, the stole is a square with a hole for the head slit in one corner. It is probably the richest of Eastern vestments and in churches that can afford the best, is ornamented with jewels and precious metals worthy of a U. S. millionaire's spouse. Mitre. The bonnet is a curious piece of evolution, being variously altered from a Greek female headdress to a gold plate, to a plain linen cap, to the present splendid crown. It symbolizes in the Roman Church the retention of papal...
...looks. And even as David Rock carves his love-pledge on his powder horn in the first chapter, so does saintly Anne draw it forth from beneath her shawl in the last chapter, during a conversation between the two that is full of Cur-woodian epithets like "dear," "sweet," "precious," "hallowed." Perdita
they will lift the precious wine to drink a toast to their departed frends and a salute to their own Deaths...
Swift Indian runners, barefoot, blanketed, brought newborn babes for baptism. Toothless Mexican gaffers, perhaps pagans* all their lives, hobbled in frenzied haste to receive a precious sprinkling of holy water...