Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...current Chinese crisis is producing an entire shelf of books on modern Chinese history, but not one whose author dares to predict the future trend of Chinese development. Best of the newest histories are CHINA YESTERDAY AND TODAY-Edward Thomas Williams- Crowell ($4.50), and CHINA AND THE POWERS-Henry Kittredge Norton-John...
MARCHING ON?James Boyd? Scribner's ($2.50). Jimmy Eraser, son of a Georgia landowner and grandson of the hero of Author Boyd's loud-beaten Drums, hears tales from his uncle of the past glory of their clan. He sees one day the enameled fields and the mansions of Cape Fear, where rich planters raise rice. He goes home unable to forget the beauty of opulent places, still less able to forget the hushed charm of a girl's voice. He falls in love with Stewart Prevost before he sees her. When friendship prompts her to offer him some money...
...Author Boyd has been at pains to produce correct atmosphere by inserting many anecdotes, invented or culled from the pages of musty newspapers. His pains are apparent. In minor characters, in tumble-down witticisms, he never relaxes his tenacious insistence on bare, unpolished prose. Judiciously he inserts pathos, romance, irony, etc. All the qualities present in Drums are more than ever present in Marching On. Drums was a moving, methodical, historical fiction; this is a better...
...corrections of Thackeray's are also on display one of a manuscript of his lecture on George II, the other of the Roundabout Papers. Other proofs corrected personally by the author include "The Surgeon's Daughter." by Scott, "The Amazing Marriage," by Meredith, "Ballads," by Rosetti, and a proof of "Bells and Pomegranates," by Browning, on which in addition to the usual annotations, he drew pictures in the margin illustrating his points...