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...numbers of Scribners containing certain installments of "A Farewell to Arms" will probably not be repeated, but it is too much to be hoped that the censors, self-appointed or otherwise, will ever overcome their squeamish morals and susceptibility to shock sufficiently to make them representative of the average reader...
...unusual intellectual distinction, Mr. Lane had more than the wide scholarship necessary for his profession. He was an expert botanist, a gifted painter, and a remarkably fine reader and actor. That he should have found time for these things in addition to his important life work is a tribute to his extraordinary versatility and to the vitality of his interests. The loss of a man who has contributed so much to the University in so many ways will be keenly felt...
Thanks to the Press, a rotund little quizzical-faced German-Jewish mathematician is known as the greatest man in the world today. Everything he says and does is News. If you are a careful newspaper reader you will find nothing new in this little collection of speeches and scraps of interviews, but you will rediscover many a bookworthy phrase, sentence...
Many a U. S. reader found to his surprise that Stephen Vincent Benét's John Brown's Body was readable and even thrilling, though a poem and a long one. If you are one who cannot stomach left-wing lyrics or metrically muted cries of despair, you may well find one or both of these narrative poems as agreeable a surprise as John Brown's Body...
...Author. Death, as it must even to optimists, came to Henry Sydnor Harrison, aged 50, last July. No widow but many a friend, many a reader, mourned him. Other books: Queed, V. V.'S Eyes, Angela's Business...