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SONNETS AND VERSE?Hilaire Belloc ?McBride ($2.75). The jacket blurb announces that the author has here collected, with a few exceptions, "all his poems which he wishes to preserve." Some of them justify the lifted eye-brow which would query "Why?" Regrettable pages of triviality are interspersed with redeeming gleams of lyric beauty...
...men?men chosen because of their clear title to authority on the subject on which they write. These men are chosen judiciously. They are representative of learning in both its empirical and theoretical forms. Thus, it must be noted that the very long list contains such men as Hillaire Belloc, probably the greatest authority on military history in England; Professor Charles Seymour of Yale University, one of the foremost historians of the U. S., H. Pirie Gordon, Foreign Editor of The Times, London; Sir James Ren-nell Rodd, British diplomat of great experience; Andre Tardieu, French statesman of acknowledged gifts...
Then too there is the bunkum that is considered fit to print. On this point Mr. Belloc, as the Happy Journalist is pleasantly frank. He loves to walk about at night, and often stops...
...replaced by definite subjects with compulsory investigation and some intelligent though on what men of some intelligent thought on what men of letters have said about the several subjects. A conception, however vague, of the basic facts of life and civilization is better than a vague inkling of Belloc, Walls and Chesterton...
...with pleasure and refreshment. It is also a book to keep -and a book that can be reread again and again, because it has that certain intangible felicity of manner about it that has frequently been called style. Of its kind, it is a minor classic. The Critics. Hilaire Belloc in his preface: "The Wallet of Kai Lung (a predecessor to Kai Lung's Golden Hours) was a thing made deliberately, in hard material, and completely successful. It was meant to produce a particular effect of humor by the use of a foreign convention, the Chinese convention...