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COUNTRY NOTES IN WARTIME-V. Sackvllle-West - Doubleday, Doran . ($ I). The title & author fully predict the content: meditations, deliberately minor and pacific, tenderly written. For those who want loud talk for loud times, she explains: "My only excuse can be that the determination to preserve such beauty as remains to us is also a form of courage...
...distinct "niches," which vary-from treetop to root, from tree to tree-in temperature, humidity, vegetation, sunlight. Every niche has its animals, every animal its niche. Thus, for example, "If you know the distribution of either the forest, the malaria, or the mosquito alone, you will be able to predict the range and incidence of the other two. In fact, this applies . . . to any animals, plants, diseases, and so forth...
...William Turner and Gabriel Goldstein of Columbia University inexpensively removed the desirable tobacco fragrance. This can then be put into the mild, golden leaves with little fragrance now favored by tobacco buyers. Mild leaves now require a factory flavoring of coumarin (from sweet clover) and vanillin. The two chemists predict that cigarets will soon have a genuine tobacco flavor-provided the public likes them that...
...denying that the music has bombast in it, and Horowitz, who has hardly been noted as an apostle of restraint, is merely running true to form when he exploits the bombast. Whether this performance will not begin to irritate after the fifth or sixth playing is hard to predict, but I incline to think it will. Technically, the recording is excellent except for an occasional scratchy surface and that unpleasant wavery effect toward the end of the second movement...
Connover feels that this is the last bit of cold weather that we will have this winter. Although he refuses to predict the date of the arrival of spring, he says that warmer weather is due from now on, and expects the first of it today...