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...John Masefield?Macmillan ($2.50). The tumultuous imagination of John Masefield, rather than fling itself upon an actual people, time and country, with the consequent danger of doing violence to truth, has invented not merely a fantastic tale but complete ethnological, political and geographical data to go with it. Highworth Ridden, youngest son of a hardbitten English squire, is followed through a color-splashed whirligig of adventure in the Republic of Santa Barbara (roughly, South America), where he chances to feel warmly toward the daughter of a great house politically hated by the slightly insane local tyrant, Dictator Lopez. There...
...every expectation of booming gales of applause from "workers." The cover design was a brawny miner with an idea bursting from his skull. Scott Nearing, famed sociologist, just back from a trip to Moscow, Kharkov, Rostov, Tiflis and other centres of culture, limned a deplorable contrast between the mammon-ridden U.S. and progressive Soviet Russia. Robert W. Dunn, young Yale Communist, described with devastating irony the activities of a Massachusetts labor-spy. "Bad Bishop" William Montgomery Brown contributed his revolutionary blessing (and a check for $1,100 to help the sheet get started). The current Passaic garmentworkers' strike...
This was very wise of her, as events showed. She had her reward later, in another field, just after dawn. There, and at an interview by the tomb of Sir Robert Maulgrave?the Satanic baronet who had drunk from a skull and ridden a zebra about the countryside?Lolly made certain of Satan for what he is?a black knight wandering about succoring decayed gentlewomen; a loving huntsman who affords empty lives some adventure by pursuing their souls in all their windings, patiently, secretly, like a gentleman stalking tigers. . . . Such a delicate perfection in spider-claw prose is not published...
...generation ago it could be said with some truth that we were a judge-ridden people, it may be said with more truth today that we are a commission-ridden people. The characteristic institutions of our inherited common law are affected profoundly by the revival of personal government which goes along with this era of administrative commissions...
...they sang in the days when a ride on a bicycle was a thrilling and fashionable experience. Bicycles are still ridden. Last week an enormous crowd in Madison Square Garden gathered to see the most famous pedalers of this decade start on a race that was to last six days...