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This season is no different from any other in the profuseness of the blurb material used to advertise the new books. If the reader were to interpret literally the extravagant claims of the publishers for their wares his life would be a frenzy of rushing from one "most notable contribution of the year" to the next "novel of extraordinary beauty" and so on through the whole gamut of superlatives...
...sketches of the poets themselves, are, some of them, excellent. Here again the studies are not so much critical as historical, and the work loses interest for the ordinary reader. H. D. and John Gould Fletcher are well done; he is less successful with Amy Lowell...
Lincoln Steffens is old and grey but not full of sleep. And what he has to say is nobody's pipe-dream but a meaty, marrowy, seasoned report on an active life which many a reader will envy...
...locale of the first is the little county of Brigshire, England; where life is langourous if slightly boring, where there is time for tea between questionings, and where the victim is smothered and the body laid comfortably in a sheriff's flower patch. In "The Westminster Mystery", the reader is caught in the mad rush of modern life. A Hollywood cinema idol is slain and his death becomes the cue for a grisly set of suicides and murder...
...dispel his gloom. The one man on the CRIMSON who could be rated as an intellectual equal, Hu Flung Huey. What occurred after the Sage had salaamed with his courtly grace, and the Vagabond had pulled him to him like a brother is none of the reader's business. What would you do upon meeting a long lost friend on a beautiful, balmy Friday afternoon with all Saturday and Sunday before you to rest. If this doesn't bring it home, look at the Orientals' Prognostications. Then all will be shimmering crystal...