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...trim, 17-ft. boat shaped like an Eskimo kayak. Two more sticks merged into a double-ended paddle. The hiker stripped to a bathing suit, stowed his clothes forward in his little craft, stepped agilely aboard and shot away into the rapids. Instant later he vanished in a spate of spray round a bend, leaving fishermen and trout with mouths agape...
British Columbians were last week more optimistic than the Dominion. The Yukon's $200,000,000 spate of gold has now become a mere $100,000 yearly trickle, but chilly Yukon's 207,076 sq. mi. are rich with uncut timber, unexploited copper, lead, coal, fish, game. These resources have been landlocked by the lack of railroads, which can presumably be promoted more easily in Vancouver than in Ottawa...
...Northern front last week, goat-bearded Italian Commander Emilio de Bono was trying to see what the Dictator's war machine was doing 40 miles away. In the foreground Old de Bono could see distinctly part of a grimy Italian labor battalion slaving to make roads, a spate of lumbering trucks and tanks, many a picturesque sight full of local Ethiopian color...
...British Museum and called it Das Kapital, his book has been gathering a Biblical reputation. Almost unmentioned in polite U. S. society before 1929, and still largely unread. Das Kapital now figures at piecemeal third-hand in many a topical argument, news story, sermon, book. The swelling spate of "proletarian novels" is a form of Marxian exegesis. Often too obviously propaganda for Marxian dogmas, they are apt to make dull if uncomfortable reading for non-Marxians. But last year Robert Cantwell's The Land of Plenty, last week Robert Whitcomb's Talk United States! showed readers of every...
...readers, fewer critics, picked out of the spate of last year's novels a rich and strange book called The Salzburg Tales, by an unknown Australian author named Christina Stead. With her second, published last week, she made the oversight more remarkable. A needlewoman of extraordinary skill, she has made a lavishly embroidered silk purse out of the sow's ear of realism...