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CECIL RHODES-Sarah Gertrude Millin -Harper ($3.75) When a friend asked Cecil John Rhodes how long he expected to be remembered, he replied, "I give myself 4,000 years." Thirty-one of his self-allotted years have gone, and Rhodes is already a colossus-like myth. Authoress Millin's biography restores some of the edges to his human outline; she leaves his image something more than lifesize, but strips the marble pediment and shows clay feet...
...prematurely, and against Rhodes's last minute instructions. Kruger's Boers made short work of the raiders, and Rhodes, head of a neighboring and nominally friendly state, was almost universally discredited. Though he lived to within a few months of the end of the ensuing Boer War, Authoress Millin says Rhodes had no finger in its bringing about, never believed it could actually happen...
Such a resume hardly does Miss Bishop justice. The late great Thomas Hardy also piled coincidences and hounded his heroines relentlessly. No Hardy, but a popular novelist with a popular novelist's faults and virtues, Authoress Aldrich writes with feminine gusto, human warmth...
...Authoress Willa Gather went to college (University of Nebraska, 1895). Authoress Edith Wharton did not.* Faced with these facts, young ladies contemplating authorship and undecided about going to college may well hesitate. Nor will Dr. Bertha Beach Tharp's educational analysis of eminent women, published in the August Scientific Monthly, be much more helpful. Of 1,000 women culled at random from Who's Who in America for 1929, one-third were authors, slightly less than one-half of whom had gone to college...
...nicely. More intelligent readers may enjoy it for other reasons. By special permission from Washington she was allowed to make a trip with the Coast Guard Cutter Mojave. She admits the crew were glad to see her go. As the Mojave steamed in to New London observers rioted Authoress Lowell's pink bloomers fluttering from the flag lanyard. Says Authoress Lowell: "Honest, I don't know who put them up there. . . ." The Record editor plastered Boston with pictures of his Gal Reporter, then sent her out in disguise on various rough assignments. She was seldom recognized. Twice...