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...TUMULT AND THE SHOUTING- Ursula Parrott - Longmans, Green ($2.50). "My big book," says Authoress Parrott (ExWife, Strangers May Kiss...
...economic conditions in general, on small-town banksters in particular, should raise more proletarian huzzas. Plain readers will find it uncomfortably interesting reading. More effective as anti-bankster propaganda than a more straightforward indictment, Cash Item is writtten in bare, matter-of-fact, day-to-day style. Authoress Brody lets her ordinary people's hopeless predicament and helpless indignation speak for themselves...
BOXFIRE-Dorothy Canfield-Harcourt, Brace (§2.50). Like many another champion of sweetness & light. Authoress Canfield cannot refrain from hitting her strawman adversary below the belt. In Bonfire her enthusiasm leads her into such palpable fouls that even her partisans may well shake their heads, deprecating these groin punches that mar an otherwise pretty exhibition of sparring. Anna Craft was district nurse in a little Vermont community where everyone knew everything about every one else. Anna was a realist but she had too many ideals for her own comfort. Chief ideal was her younger brother Anson, for whom...
...deaf-mute who has become a highly educated and intelligent woman, is one of the most famed figures in the world today, but few have ever heard of the miracle-worker who raised Helen Keller from the worse-than-dead. Her name is Anne Sullivan Macy; in this book Authoress Braddy tells her little-known story. Mrs. Macy has lived continuously with Helen Keller for 45 years except for two occasions. Fourteen years older than her lifelong pupil, she was well fitted to be a sympathetic teacher of the blind. She was practically blinded herself in childhood by trachoma...
...them: strangers find it hard to understand. To show Helen how sounds are formed Annie would let Helen put her fingers on her lips, inside her mouth, "sometimes far down in her throat." That Annie is no mean voice-trainer may be judged by the fact (vouched for by Authoress Braddy) that she taught her dog Sieglinde to say "Mama...