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...done nothing more than photograph them. He makes no attempt to interpret the originality of his scene, but is content merely to reproduce. The reproduction, too, suffers from the immense conglomeration of detail and anecdote; in the end there is neither order nor proportion and both author and reader find themselves hopelessly confused. Mr. Brinig, in assuming the cudgel of the "local culturists" has failed exactly wherein they failed a decade...
...short-story," complete on one page, first of which was written by Octavus Roy Cohen. Four-color illustrations were used in Collier's for the first time by any weekly. Collier's began to recapture some of its old pugnaciousness with special articles which, while they lost some old readers, gained more new ones. One such enterprise was a long series of reports on the effects of Prohibition, with the conclusion that the law was unenforceable. An-other was the expose of alleged graft in Hidalgo, Tex., which resulted in $1,000,000 worth of libel suits by Rentfro Banton...
...Histories have previously been written with the object of exalting their authors. The object of this history is to console the reader. No other history does this." British Authors Sellar & Yeatman have written, in 1066 And All That, a more than consoling parody of English history, from Caesar's conquest of Britain to the end of all things, when, the U. S. being "clearly top nation . . . History came...
...correspondence of King John III of Portugal, which has been published under the title of "Letters of John III of Portugal". As only twenty three of the letters have been published before, the present volume offers fresh material of value to the historian as well as the lay reader. The letters are in the original Portuguese but a modern Portuguese glossary is provided of some of the more archaic forms...
...accepted an invitation to visit the Harvard Club of New York City on Friday, May 1, it was learned yesterday. This will be Professor Copeland's twenty-sixth annual visit, and it is expected that he will give his usual reading, since he is the "one and only official reader" of the club...