Word: simons
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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FIFTEEN RABBITS - Felix Salten - Simon & Schuster ($1). Mild, somewhat poetic, this exceedingly simple book presents a vision of rabbit life as the Viennese author of Bambi sees it. As in Bambi, which was deer life poeticized, all the birds & beasts of the forest-and finally even the trees- converse freely together in a rather flat idiom, and the majority eat each other with relish and frequency. That, with the doings of sundry hunters, forms the background, foreground and action of the story...
...SNOW-F. Wright Moxley-Simon & Schuster ($1). This novel undertakes to finish off the human race and does so in 400 overcrowded pages. The cause of the end is mysterious. On Aug. 17, 1935, occurred a short fall of red, snow-like flakes, penetrating buildings and clothing. No consequences were noticed for nine months. Then: "The news at first fuliginous in its incomprehensibleness soon became fulgent in its clarity." The "red snow" had sterilized humanity. With all the restraints of care for posterity at once removed, civilization began to disintegrate. Racial hatreds flamed and religious wars burst out. Fanatics seized...
Arthur W. Cutten, Chicago grain & stock tycoon, caught the last of the nine bandits who eight years ago looted his Downers Grove., Ill. home, left him smothering in a basement vault. Simon Rosenberg was the eighth to be captured (TIME, April 14). Last week, his brother, Caspar surrendered himself in Wheaton, Ill. Said he: "I've been hunted long enough. I am innocent and prepared to prove it. I can't go on any longer, always hiding. Cutten wins...
...JONATHAN SCRIVENER-Claude Houghton-Simon & Schuster ($1). One James Wrexham, impoverished but well-educated Englishman past his first youth, is distastefully employed in a real-estate office. One day he answers an advertisement in the London Times, is accepted, becomes secretary to mysterious, invisible Jonathan Scrivener...
...speech the Viceroy reaffirmed statements by the MacDonald government that the Anglo-Indian round table conference in London next October will be "free"?that is, will not be compelled to work out a solution in terms of the Simon Report. Since Sir John Simon is a Liberal his party appeared, last week, to take this declaration as an affront to them. The Earl of Birkenhead, knowing very well that St. Gandhi and many of the most representative leaders of Indian thought are in jail, stormed: "I suppose that the Government intends to empty jails of law-breakers to equip...