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Slave of Desire. The scenario is taken from Balzac's The Magic Skin. About half way through Poet Raphael (hero) meets the Magic Skin and things proceed to happen. The latter is one of those skins you love to touch. All you have to do is touch it and make a wish. Liquor, ladies and lullabies come romping in. The only difficulty was that Raphael got only so many wishes to the inch. Each wish shrunk the skin. When it reached the size of his palm he was to be introduced socially to the Grim Reaper. Before that occurred...
...ultimate word in salesmanship, according to the current issue of the Journal, is to "reduce sales-resistance by analyzing your buyer's library." If he reads Harold Bell Wright and Zane Grey, solid comfort and respectability are his first requirements, but if his library contains Conrad, Henry James. Balzac, and De Morgan, the salesman must use the utmost discrimination, as his desire for a distinctive home with beautiful and harmonious surroundings will be limited only by his income. We wonder if the research managers of large real-estate corporations furnish their young salesmen with charts something like this...
...Andelys, 60 miles down the Seine from Paris, a school of impressionistic art has thrived for nearly 100 years under such masters as Claude Monet, Pisarro and Cezanne. Once a year the village is astir with an exhibition which students hold in Balzac's old home...
...instance, among the former: Washington, Gambetta, Bismarck, Mazzini, Kitchener, Hobbes, Spurgeon, Huxley, Keats, Browning, Kingsley, Wordsworth, Lamb, Carlyle, Emerson, Dickens, Tennyson, Meredith, Stevenson, Howells, et cetera ad infinitum, not to mention the well-known excesses of Grant and Mark Twain. On the other hand: Lincoln, Greeley, Wilson, Roosevelt, Wellington, Balzac, Goethe, Tolstoi, Ruskin, Haeckel, Bacon, Whittier, etc. Obviously, tobacco can have had no beneficial effect other than from habit on the great deeds of the world, for the foundations of civilization were laid, and Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Caesar, Dante, and many more lived and wrought before Raleigh brought the weed...
...Watson and a splendidly upstage butler named Bunter, at last discovers the solution not only to this problem but others involving much mystery and confusion. The best thing of its kind since The Red House Mystery. MY FRIEND FROM LIMOUSIN−Jean Giraudoux−Harper ($2.00). Awarded the Prix Balzac for 1922, this highly original and satiric novel, should prove a most acceptable literary plate of anchovy sandwiches for those who like a certain fantastic grace and suppleness in their reading matter. The plot−involving a Frenchman picked up on the battlefield, who suffers complete loss of memory, recovers...