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After lagging behind the Wesleyan five for the greater part of the first half, the University basketball team forged ahead to swamp the Middletown team 41 to 24, in a swift and hard fought game on the Hemenway court last night. A few minutes before the close of the first period a sudden spurt brought the University quintet into the lead, the half ending...
...LIGHT BEYOND? E. Phillips Oppenheim?Little, Brown ($2). All of Author Oppenheim's 100 previous novels have possessed that first and most important element of good or even of great novels, plots which, if not airtight, will at least hold the swift and perishable liquid of a reader's excitement. His technique has not yet vanished. The Light Beyond is about three of the most important countries in the world, represented each by one or two enormously, incredibly potent individuals. By the time that a London war conference has revealed the (imaginary) iniquities of teutonic schemes for indemnity avoidance...
...thrown it. Rasda had shot himself. He was lying on the dishevelled bed, a sticky gutter of blood marked from his temple down to the collar of his uniform. The Significance. Author Schnitzler's books are sudden, delicate, glittering and sharp. Daybreak is like the music of incredibly swift and al, most inaudible violins, swinging and sighing through the measures of a bitter improvisation. The excitement of the cardgame, the quick, inexplicable chances of love and despair rise and fall; tbev are flashes of an ironic dangerous lightning, never followed! by the slow, loud rhetoric of thunder...
Dundee went to the big city. One could succeed more quickly and with less effort in the big city. Dreaming of swift wealth he joined with fakers. He was apprehended and sent to prison. All chance of success seemed to have vanished...
...behavior; Stanley voyaging into Africa to find Livingston; Cecil Rhodes thinking of his grave on a windy hill; Rembrandt staring at his face in many mirrors; Byron, Balzac, Shakespeare; and Voltaire writing his thin and bitter curses. These, and many another, pass under Author Ludwig's swift and penetrating scrutiny. In these brief sketches there cannot be the breadth and totality of detailed biography. But there can be and there is the power and discernment that has made Author Ludwig perhaps the most able contemporary critic of great...