Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Someone should present Preacher Straton with Havelock Ellis' Dance of Life, call to his attention that author's reference to God as Divine Ironist. D. C. HEATH...
...Author Barry Benefield Tortures the Inveterate Reader...
...Author. Being at the head of his publisher's publicity department, modest Barry Benefield occupies a strategic but embarrassing position. Strategic, because he can refuse to let more be known of himself than that he was born in Jefferson, Tex., went to school and college in "that prodigious state", worked on The Dallas News and The New York Times, had short stories in Scribner's, Collier's and other magazines. Embarrassing, because he is obliged to tout his own work for the good of his employers, and to send out pictures of a countenance, whose ascetic air he would denounce...
...thoroughly, but the style is so crisp and lively, the chapters so economically arranged, the illustrations-verbal and photographic -so clear and well-timed, that Reader Doe will come to the end breathing easily. Particularly lucid is the exposition of chromosomes and the variations they produce; particularly commendable the author's ability to keep his reader im- pressed at all times with the enormous diversity of life and the in- cessant struggle for existence. Reader Doe is most likely a memtally-gregarious animal. It should excite him not a little to read this able book and realize that...
...Richard Swann Lull, professor of Vertebrate Paleontology, author of The Ways of Life, reviewed TIME, June 1, SCIENCE...