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Founded with the backing of Viscountess Rothermere in 1922, while T. S. Eliot was still on the staff of a London bank, The Criterion was expensive (7s. 6d -$1.75), highbrow, never attained a wide circulation (900). Yet its influence unquestionably exceeded that of any other English literary journal. Its first issue printed T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, probably the most influential modern poem. It was the first English periodical to publish the work of Marcel Proust, Paul Valery, Jean Cocteau, many another since-famed major European writer. The list of its contributors-James Joyce, Thomas Mann, Virginia...
With this piece of gruesome candor, Britain's popular writer on science and warfare, Professor J. B. S. Haldane of University College, London, opens his new book A. R. P.* (Gollancz, London, 78 6d), which thousands of Britons were reading last week. They knew for certain that fleets of German bombers were already being prepared in the Reich for quick takeoffs (see p. 15). Digging through Professor Haldane's 296 pages to learn what Science thought would be their fate and what Science advised could be done about it, Britons found crumbs of comfort only in the belief...
Last week these potent chains had a new rival, a peewee 3d. & 6d. store named John Thrifty. It was started by none other than that fabulous merchant, Harry Gordon Selfridge, who left Chicago to open London's first modern department store in 1909. Last year Self ridge's did $65,000,000 worth of business, some $20,000,000 of it in provincial divisions, at a profit of $4,000,000. One highly successful department was the 3d. & od. section. This fact, plus a growing certainty that England is slipping steadily into a business recession, are Merchant Selfridge...
...Tues. at 11 Widener C 220d Consult Professor Koszul 230b Mon. at 10 Widener B 250b Tues. at 3 Sever 21 270b Tues. at 4 Sever 1 Fine Arts 1d Tues. at 11 Fogg Large Rm. 1f Mon. at 9 Robinson Hall 4a Mon. at 12 Robinson Hall 6d Mon. at 11 Fogg Small Rm. 7a Tues. at 9 Robinson Hall 8a Mon. at 2 Van Rensselaer Rm. 10 Mon. 2-5 Robinson Hall 14m Tues. at 12 Van Rensselaer Rm. 16b Mon. at 2 Fogg Small Rm. 16d Tues. at 10 Fogg Small Rm. 18a Tues. at 2 Fogg...
...Michael Joseph Ltd., London (IDS. 6d...