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...enthusiastic reader of your magazine I wish to take this opportunity of correcting an error in TIME, Feb. 7. On p. 10 of that issue there appears an item, concerning "one Butterick, at Hankow. Chinese flung at him pots of dung...
...reader who, like myself, asks for TIME at many a newsstand is a walking delegate for your magazine, one of its best advertisements...
...sordid realism of a Dreiser, but perhaps it is none the less realistic for that. We are not all degenerates and abnormals. Howells purpose was to give us a picture of life as it is, with all its little common, ordinary happenings, and yet to make the reader like it, and see the inner meaning behind everything. In this aim he succeeded admirably, enrichening his stories with a humor that rings very true. In "The Rise of Silas Lapham", this humor finds an excellent field and is displayed to the best advantage...
DIVOTS-P. G. Wodehouse-Dorem ($2.50). The Oldest Member still sits by the first tee watching people drive off and remembering- remembering so voluminously that he has to attach himself to his victims' coattails and drag them down to get an audience. Glad to say, the reader needs dragging down less than ever. The sharp sound of splitting wood and the dejected back of the vicar plodding homeward remind the Oldest Member of young Chester Meredith, ah yes, poor chap. . . . and so he relates how Chester came within a chip shot of not crashing the course record, simply through...
...Sinclair handles her story well, although at times the feeling is inevitable that six brain children are too large a brood for any author to handle. The plot usually well-sustained, at points of maximum action strays, wobbles, stumbles. Of the characters, categorical differentiations are employed to help the reader tell one from the other, but the net effect is of a houseful of wooden Indians worked by wires. Not since Anne Severn and the Fieldings (1922) has May Sinclair been herself...