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POINT COUNTER POINT-Aldous Huxley-Doubleday Doran...
Julian Sorell Huxley, biologist-writer grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley (Darwin's protagonist), eldest son of Leonard Huxley (editor, Cornhill Magazine), brother of Aldous Leonard Huxley (writer of lightly ironical books) last week was trying to organize a grand telepathic powwow. Beginning this month and continuing for 16 weeks he wants people who believe that they can propel their ideas and wishes towards others to try doing so, and report results to him.* Particularly does he want the blind to experiment "to determine whether a special sensitiveness compensates for the loss of sight...
...black, the brown, the yellow man learns of the white race from its cinemas nightly in every quarter of the globe. "And what does he learn ?" asks able sophisticate Aldous Huxley in his new round-the-world travel book (see p. 19). "Standing in the midst of ... [a] crowd of Javanese picture fans, I was astonished when the performance attained its culminating imbecility, that they did not all with one accord turn on us [white men] with hoots of derision, with mocking and murderous violence. . . . The share of Hollywood in low ering the white man's prestige...
Utterly out of the rut of "travel books"are two volumes, respectively about the Far East* and the Far North.** Aldous Huxley, a goggled-eyed aesthetic master at turning trifles into significant facts, sets forth the searing paradoxes which he constructed on a trip around the world featuring the Orient but including (and devastating) the U. S. The Scandinavian wanderers have caught uniquely well the healthy rural glow, the astounding civic progress and the insufferably"countrified" social life of Scandinavian...
...JESTING PILATE - Aldous Huxley- Doran Doran ($3.00). 5 **TWO VAGABONDS IN SWEDEN AND LAPLAND-Jan & Cora Gordon -Dodd, Mead...