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...story has as its background a Chicago electrotype foundry and its principal characters are those who are connected with that activity. There is scarcely any plot to the work but the reader is introduced to and made acquainted with the lives, ideas, hopes, and ambitions of the foundry workers in an intimate and personal way. The presentation is vigorous and masculine and anyone who enjoys studying and probing into the lives of his fellowmen will like "The Foundry." It is full of pierving observations and has a humorous tone that adds a great deal to making the novel enjoyable...
More on rodeos will appear in the Nov. 26 issue of the fortnightly LETTERS, a copy of which will be sent to any TIME reader on request. Yearly subscription...
...willing to wager with any one TIME reader that this year's selection will be France's late great Louis Barthou. Terms of the wager: a one year's subscription to TIME; in the case of a subscriber, a one year's renewal thereof...
...personal pronoun and the exclamation point he would be tongue-tied. A more unabashed egotist than most authors, he gave his ego a field day last week by publishing a grotesque 595-page autobiography. Whether or not the mirror he holds up to himself is distorted, most readers will agree that the image it reflects is a little cracked. Author Powys admits: "I know, and I daresay my reader will willingly bear me out in this, that I am - all the while - never wholly sane." He has tried to report his life as if he were confessing to "a priest...
...Grammar of Love" contains ten stories, eight of which had not been translated into English before. They vary greatly in subject matter and demonstrate Bunin's work at widely different times of his career. The central theme of the collection, however, is love. His treatment is realistic and the reader is impressed emotionally, psychologically, and philosophically by the power of the author to transmit these instinctive feelings and thoughts by a mere description of material things. It is by allusion and implication that these realistic descriptions become more than more enumerations and the subtle skill of Bunin in arranging...