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...cause for alarm, and a long period of prosperity ahead. Charles M. Schwab is cheerful, but feels it necessary to caution business men against overoptimism. Charles E. Mitchell, president of the National City Bank, Manhattan, recognizes present prosperity, but warns against the dangers of rising costs produced by over-swift expansion. Much the same position was taken by the U. S. Department of Commerce in a recent bulletin. In the case of the stock market, J. L. Livermore, noted operator, is more pessimistic. He points out the large amounts of undigested securities now on the market...
FOUR OF A KIND?J. P. Marquand ?Scribner's ($1.75). This volume is made up of four swift-moving, active, unpretentious tales. They are a little longer than short stories, not long enough to be called novels. Their chief merit rests in the young author's vigor of presentation, his quick eye for externals, a certain freshness of viewpoint. One of the four is concerned with a prizefighter; another with a debutante; the third story is set in an advertising office; the last is a tale of horses and the riding thereof...
...professed philosophers. Great as Locke and Hume are, they do not begin to sum up in their pages all the philosophical thought of Eighteenth Century England. Their importance is beyond question, but could one get anything like a complete picture of that era without some consideration of Addison, Swift, Defoe, Fielding, Johnson, Sir Joshua Reynolds and Adam Smith? Man has always expressed his noblest thoughts in the noblest literature of which he was capable; for several hundred years he has been equally careful to preserve for posterity a record of his intimate life, his amusements and his ambitions...
...gesture, should keep a man alive. But, in cold weather his conversation might become dull, and his writing would always be extremely telegraphic. He picks up an adjective here and a verb there until he can talk rather fluently of the weather and politics. Indeed, such writers as Hobbes, Swift and Defoe won success on very few words...
...planned, and furnished, and with the largest sales gallery floor-space in the world (15,000 square feet), opened March 21. As most of the Press remarked, a new situation thence arises in the life of the commuter, whereby the race for the smoking car may be to the swift, but the Sargent to the slow...