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...down and read what he had to say. "Buddenbrooks, Decline of a Family." Knopf, New York, was the title of the book. He covered the whole nineteenth century with the history of a merchant family in an old Hanseatic City, spoke "partly in a sombre, partly in a comical vein of the things of life, of births, christenings, weddings, and bitter deaths". The first outstanding figure in the family line bears still a light touch of eightteenth-century-grace and sprightliness; his-still successful-son is of Victorian solidity, not without a note of religious and general hypocrisy. The third...
...characters, though perfectly imaginable, are poorly imagined. They have not been viewed with sufficient perspective to prevent their growing maudlin. The action is unbalanced. It wobbles off into a mist of emotion and disappears from sight. Author Smith's last book, Topper (1926), was in a happier, lighter, suburban vein to which his readers may well wish he would return...
...vein was surprisingly light and fanciful coming from a chunky man so popularly associated with columned statistics, inanimate commodities and worried relief work. It postulated the pursuit of fish as a right rendered inalienable to "all men (and boys)" by the Declaration of Independence. It considered the mysteries and incantations of fishing, from spitting on angleworm segments to affixing trout cosmetics and bass liniments. It dwelt on piscatorial beatitudes in a manner that quickly revealed Mr. Hoover as twice the fisherman Calvin Coolidge is said to be, and in a style that revealed Mr. Hoover as a reader of Poet...
Even from this, the U. S. correspondents present failed unanimously to sense the approach of a great moment, ignored the super-news interest of a speech by the Dictator not in wild, bombastic vein, but warmly and humanly ruminative over the whole fertile land of his endeavors. The correspondents, plowing their usual rut, cabled in distorted and sensationalized form only what II Duce called the "goad" of his speech. Still worse, the correspondents twisted this until it meant almost the opposite of what Premier Mussolini went...
Strange Fish. William Beebe, one of those fortunate men who seem to be doing exactly what their spirits desire, returned to Manhattan last week from a four-month fishing and observing expedition on the coral reefs of Haiti. In the scientific-romantic vein which characterizes his writings, he excited newsgatherers with stories of prowling on the ocean floor under 60 feet of water, clad in an ordinary bathing suit and diver's helmet equipped with air-and-telephone tube.? He dictated piscatorial descriptions to an assistant in a schooner above. Occasionally he scribbled fleeting impressions on a zinc plate...