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Although many people hailed the latest manifestation of the Watch and Ward Society, as a welcome sign of renewed vigor, those who have followed its course closely must take a different view. It has degenerated sadly from the days when its name struck terror to booksellers who carried the favorite esoteric of the moment in the little safe in the back room. Its decline can be dated from the time when its inordinate 1-st for the purity of letters caused it to descend on the Dunster House Bookstore...
...under the iron eye of limping Headmistress von Nordeck; to state that their food and heat are to be curtailed (although the young ladies on the stage seem plump and warm enough); to picture them tucked into a dormitory full of little white beds which would have very little terror for U. S. boarding school girls...
China's heroic eigth Route Army on its desperate and hopeless defense of Shanghai (TIME, March 14 et ante), was contributed not by the Government but by terror-stricken Shanghai bankers and merchants and patriotic Chinese abroad-a clear budgetary saving of $12,000,000. As Dr. Soong said stubbornly, three months after the Shanghai Incident: "At present the most important thing for China is to restore her financial stability. We must go on living within our income for a year. We have done it for five months. The Chinese financial situation is better now than that...
...later on of course he means to read. But not just yet. He will take it up someday, with the tragedies of Ben Jonson, and also "Paradise Regained." And Pope. In the eighteenth century the little man in black, with the twisted shoulder and the twisted smile, was the terror as well as the delight of London. A single translation made him rich; he was bribed to write and believed to be silent. Pope had a full quiver, and all his barbs went home. Today he is damned, even by the now enthusiasts for Dryden, and not even with faint...
These tales of terror, thirty-six pages long if you paid sixpence, seventy if a shilling, were on everything from a "Shocking Instance of Arabian Jealousy" to "The Cross of Christ," all rife with much the same sort of atmosphere, thrills and shocks. Most of them had castles with ghostly portrait galleries, musty, deserted wings where mysterious manuscripts telling of some "awful" murder or horrible deed were discovered. The heroine is beautiful, but elusive. "Her mind is . . . like a jewel contained in a most beautiful casket." The hero is a brunette; and like the protagonists in Horatio Alger stories...