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...Freiherr Von Neurath, Reichminister for Foreign Affairs. The managing editor of the magazine has invited several high Nazi officials to present their views unadulterated by American cutting or editing. In view of the distortion of German news by most newspapers and periodicals in this country this innovation should give readers an opportunity to pass some judgment on the leaders of the Nazi regime from their own statements presented in an unprejudiced manner without any attempt being made to influence the reader...
...complaint which has been made. The chapel, it is said, is too dark to allow the reading of the psalms without injury to the eyes. We therefore, respectfully suggest that on cloudy mornings the gloomy chapel be illuminated by a stray candle here and there. The reader may now expect some words about electric light in the library. But, for today we have finished our suggestions to the powers above us, whether faculty or janitor--Editorial...
...than trite expressions, but it is very unfortunate that he has allowed this search for the unusual to interfere so greatly with the flow of thought in verse. It is largely the result of this fault that so many of his sonnets strike no note of response in the reader. It is sincerely to be hoped that Mr. Agee's future efforts will turn rather toward a development of the fine imagination and careful verse of "Ann Garner" than to this individualistic mania which threatens to injure this latest of America's "promising" poets...
...nationality can be more charmingly amusing than "Elizabeth" (Elizabeth Mary, Countess Russell), when she sets her mind to it. The Jasmine Farm shows her at her mindful best. Written with a wit so inoffensive that it is hardly perceptible, this novel will keep many a plain reader from more mischievous pursuits for a pleasant, if softening, hour...
...original sources and from them he has achieved an excellent picture of his subject. Although one gets a bit tired of hearing the hero referred to as "The Virginian" or Merne, and Thomas Jefferson as the "Sage of Albermarle" the writing is of the calibre which holds the reader's interest and makes the pages turn easily. Occasionally the style becomes a trifle plain and slow, but undoubtedly this will give place to a more easy flow as further books take their place in the high rank to which this may be accorded...