Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great news value."The book is written in a style that is distinctive of the "Gentlemen with a Duster." It champions Conservatism against both Liberalism and Socialism, and in so doing the language is direct, conclusive, partisan, brilliant. It is, or seems to be, a thousand pities that the author failed to include such Conservative personalities as Lord Curzon and the Duke of Devonshir. The dusting of these gentlemen might have disturbed the atmosphere at Westminster, convulsed the author with literary sneezes and choked the readers with amusement not unmixed with that grain of truth that invariably deserts the object...
...wrap it up in a story, present both sides with equal eloquence, and then not answer it. In this case, the question has something to do with the relative values of the post-War generation and those that came before it. As fiction, this volume is not in its author's happiest vein. It is the latest and probably the least interesting addition to that formidable series, The Forsyte Saga. Mr. Galsworthy neither knows nor understands completely the society he is discussing. He is not himself a modern, and he is not in sympathy with modernism. Thus his study...
GENTLEMEN OF THE JURY?Francis L. Wellman ?Macmillan ($4.00). This volume is addressed "to the tens of thousands of men that are called each year to serve their first term in the jury box." Its object is stated by Author Wellman to be "to acquaint jurors with the profound importance and dignity of their membership in that ancient and honorable institution of Trial by Jury; to lay before them the duties, privileges and prerogatives of a juror, to open their minds to the fallacies of human testimony, the whys and wherefores of intentional perjury, the methods by which truth...
...world," says the author, "is already too full of moral lectures and serious reformers; and while I trust my efforts may prove instructive to the uninitiated, my ambition is also to be hailed a welcome raconteur." The public press is daily informing Mr. Wellman that this ambition has been gratified. One Heywood Broun of The New York World, in a column devoted to this book, is on record to the effect that after reading Gentleman of the Jury, he regretted for the first time that the laws of New York State exempted newspaper men from jury duty...
...Williams has come to Harvard to lecture tomorrow and Thursday before the Business School on current labor problems. He is the author of several books on the relation between capital and labor, including "What's on the Worker's Mind," and "Full...