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Smirt, subtitled An Urbane Nightmare, is solemnly introduced by smirking Author Cabell as a serious and scientific attempt to picture "an adult dream represented from the actual point of view of a dreamer." Disregarding James Joyce's partially-published Work in Progress, Author Cabell avers that, with the exception...
A further ironic comment on the muddled and glucy state of the Congressional mind is provided by the debate about the tax to be levied on liquor. Mr. Connelly wants a tax of five dollars a gallon or more in order, he explains, to break up the "Whiskey Trust." Unfortunately...
Since the debate was announced only several days ago, Princeton avers that there is insufficient time to prepare a team. As formerly planned, the debate would have consisted in two separate meetings, one in Cambridge and one at Princeton, with Harvard organizing both an affirmative and a negative team. The...
EXPRESSION IN AMERICA-Ludwig Lewisohn-Harper ($4). W7hen scripture became only literature. Literatus Lewisohn avers, "it was necessary for literature to become scripture." Modern literati are no mere craftsmen, do not play the beaux to pretty Belles Lettres. They must be poets "whom the thoughtful and instructed modern reader seeks...
On Nikola Tesla's birthday in mid-July, the electrical term which his name has become is regenerated as a tall, meagre, eagle-headed man. Reporters hunt him out of his hotel cubicle for his yearly interview and for a day his long-standing fame flares again. People who all...