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...most interesting volume on show is DeQuincy's "Confessions of an English Opium Eater", with lithographs by Zenya Gray which catch the atmosphere of the book extremely well. Other volumes represented are Swift's "Gulliver's Travels", grotesquely illustrated by Alexander King; "The Travels of Baron Munchausen", combined with illustrations by John Held; "Jaunts and Jollities by Mr. John Jorrick's", produced by the Merrymount Press; and De La Monte's "Undine" with woodcuts by Allen Lewis...
...ashes on his palate, when the burden and the mystery prey on his spirit. He turns from the shallow comfort of the penny-a-liners to the mordant voice of Housman. Like Archduke's cousin, he sees the symbol of it all in a handfull of dust. Like Swift, he celebrates his birthday as a time of mourning, and all neighbors join in. Life is a poor thing, bitter and mocking and the phrase of Solon runs in his mind...
...most other republics. It is a crime against the State to print jokes about the President of France or to disparage him from stage or platform. Frenchmen-as individuals and as a nation-were never more true to French traditions than in their instinctive, automatic reactions to the swift, tremendous tragedy of last week. Every moment of the 13 hours that passed between the shooting in mid-afternoon and the Death just before dawn was packed with drama...
...they handled 114 other than meat) and ordered to get rid of their stockyards and terminal facilities, their market newspapers, their warehouse investments. Because the packers agreed to do this rather than face possible fines for criminal acts the case was called the "Consent Decree." Year ago Armour and Swift, backed by lesser packers, sought to have the decree modified. The Supreme Court of the District of Columbia agreed to their plea that distribution methods have changed, that they should be allowed to handle (wholesale only) groceries, fruits, vegetables, dairy products...
...glow' of a falling meteorite is not the result of combustion but of the extreme heat generated during the dissipation of its molecules by swift collision with those of the air. Small deposits of various metals are often found on sandy ocean beds, and it has been conclusively shown that these deposits are collections of single molecules or small particles of metal 'knocked' from meteorites while they moved through the atmosphere...