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...human warmth in its two hundred fifty odd pages, just the lowest form of men and women crawling over bleak rock with one cut throat instinct "to persist". To say the book is depressing is to say nothing. "Bottom Dogs" is a social document of man neither civilized nor un-civilized...
...Book. Choosing as his gambit an article by Professor William B. Munro which states that the people, not the Congress, make the laws, that laws are already half made before they are subjected to and often un-idealized by the jockeying of politicians, Mr. Warburg traces economic U. S. conditions which led first to the need and then the passing of the Federal Reserve Act. Says Mr. Warburg: "I was trained in the practices of a banking system, which under varying forms had worked satisfactorily in almost every industrially advanced country except the U. S. From the time...
...soon added bogus Corots, Degas, Daumiers, Sisleys and Pissarros to their stock. Some of these sold as high as $10,000. On the untidy profits, Grandson Millet's wife and children thrived. When he was apprehended, the police reported that he had sold more than 4,000 fakes. Cheery, un- daunted, he admitted that the collection he had sold to the Millet Museum at Barbizon was entirely sham. Said he: "I had a good time, but this is the unconventional unhappy ending. The Americans from Missouri, the Continentals and the English fell the hardest. I hope to emerge triumphant...
...venery, then seeing a copy of Verlaine's poems Maugham was carrying, seized it and read a favorite. "And as he read his voice broke and tears came into his eyes and ran down his face. 'Ah,' he said, 'ça me fait pleurer comme un veau.' ('Ah, that makes me cry like a calf...
With a flourish the Chambrun Galleries invited the New York art world last week to a show proudly titled "Les Trente, a representative showing of the work of 30 modern French painters." The modern French painters bore such disturbingly un-French names as Foujita, Friesz, Kvapil, Carlu, Mutter, Hecht, Van Dongen, but apart from the accident of birth the subtitle was justified. These artists have not only made France their physical and spiritual home, but their training, their technique, their outlook, is as Parisian as a bottle of Pernod. One other thing was noticeable: Les Trente were completely modern...