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...superficial way the picture of Vienna in 1815 is accurate and at times interesting, and that during the last fifty pages, when Talleyrand and Mr. Cooper are relieved of the political onus, the pictures and phrasing acquire a new freshness. But to all save the most causal reader, this latest plunge into the mystery of Talleyrand is worthless; considered as an historical document, it offers practically nothing save a superficial rehash of secondary material; considered as biography, it loses all effectiveness in the morass of inexperience and slipshed, dull expression...
...Manhattan, Rubin Fisher, 26, told newshawks he had read 146,444 gas meters for Consolidated Gas Co. without a mistake, gave the Chinese for meter reader ("Hi-fo-be-yo"), the Italian ("meeta' read"), the Jewish ("gess men"). Wading waist-deep in cellar water to read meters Rubin Fisher once nearly drowned in a deep hole, once met a dozen alligators...
Many amazing episodes found in court records, such as an attempt to poison John Browne, are presented to the reader...
...Boyd, who is a reader in German at Oxford, has produced a book, which may to the layman seem some what pedautic, but which is of value to English criticism and to the Scholarship on Goethe...
...science," by J. w. N. Sullivan. This critical exposition of the scientific philosophies of Eddington, Jeans, and Millikan, succeeds in avoiding most of the errors of modern popularizers of science. Not sufficiently accurate, perhaps, to conform to the standards of Professor Whitehead, it is clearly written and stimulates the reader's thought; it is an excellent introduction to the rather febrile speculations which have grown out of the Post-Newtonian physics...