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...book is indeed enormous, covering as it does Napoleon's early life in Corsica, the tremendous activity of his years of power, and the six years of solitude in St. Helena, which are described as fully as any other period in his life. The tempo and the style are swift, an artistic device to convey the energy of the subject. It is successful too in suggesting the development of Napoleon's plans with the progress of his achievements. No premature dreams of world dominion are attributed to the Artillery officer when he is still intriguing unsuccessfully for mastery of Corsica...
...process of getting a hen's egg to the breakfast table of an apartment dweller seems scarcely more complex, costly and inevitable. Nevertheless, some businessmen have lately set out to simplify book-buying by having strong, swift Harry Carrier do more work than ever. They have him go almost directly from the house that Jack built to the reader...
...been mad through the mountains of Cabaret with Peire Vidal, maddest jongleur of the old time. For the marriage at Cana in Galilee he has written a dance figure that is, so far as one can feel, no less lovely than any marriage ever was. In his swift, light, swirling pages are a host of echoes -of tall women and barbecues in Troy; a chant for the transmutation of metals under the larches of Paradise (Middle Ages) ; dirges for a Plantagenet, for Pan, for Nikoptis at Akr Caar; praise for Ysolt, for Evanoe, for thigh-embarked Daphne; a song...
...spotlight on what goes on, and how, behind the academic walls. It is the wise author who lets his dashing young rascal fade into obscurity with his A. B. under his arm and the aureole of glamor still about his head. One had as leave read about Tom Swift after his adventures are over and his magic flying machine stabled in the garage, as pursue the maturity of the plastic age settling into stodgy concrete...
...other books of considerable value and great historic interest have been placed on exhibition, with Galileo's famous dialogues on the movements of the earth and the operation of the solar system. One of these is entitled, "Remarks on the Life and Writings of Jonathan Swift" and is written by the Earl of Orrey, who was acquainted with Swift as with Pope and the other important literary men of the time. The volume received by the Library is one of a private edition published in 1751, before the first general edition, which proved of such great popularity that...