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...escapers, men, women, and children. Almost everything we do, except the supreme acts of higher enjoyment, which partake of higher reality, are escapes in some manner or degree." With this metaphysical prologue Francis Yeats-Brown, author of "Tales of a Bengal Lancer", introduces a strange procession of characters. Plucked from the dusty corners of history by his sympathetic hand, they have one thing in common. Each has escaped from something or somebody, and each has a tale to tell. The result is a diverting hodgepodge of narrative...
Everyman, published in London, edited by Major Francis Yeats-Brown (The Lives of a Bengal Lancer), calls itself a "World News Weekly," copies TIME'S picture captions, attempts condensation, but otherwise little resembles TIME. A foreword to the first issue says "People want news rather than opinions. . . . We are against the barren doctrines of Socialism. Communism and class-war." In addition to news, Everyman contains a department of chatty miscellany called "This Cockeyed World," articles by Bertrand Russell, Andre Maurois, Elinor Glyn. Chief backers of Everyman are Publisher Sir John Evelyn Leslie Wrench, chairman and joint editor...
...Thomas Bat'a put it before he died. Surprisingly soon afterward the steamer Morava, owned by the House of Bat'a, docked at Bombay with 1,000,000 pairs of Bat'a shoes and machinery for starting a Bat'a plant at Konnagar, Bengal, which is now in full production. The Morava sailed completely around India, stocking more than 200 shoe stores which Bat'a working partners opened and staffed within recent years...
...mainland since 1898. Long-range guns made Venice's isolation valueless as a defense. But it was still a pretty sentiment. In 1931 Benito Mussolini briskly ordered work on the road begun and that night St. Mark's Square in Venice blazed with Venetian lanterns and bengal lights. Opened last week, the road is 57 mi. long, 2½ mi. of it a bridge over the lagoon proper, strung on arches sunk in the mud. It runs beside the railway viaduct and between the two is a concrete groove reserved for bicyclists. At the city end is Europe...
...BENGAL MUTINY-George Danger-field-Har-court, Brace ($2). Brief, graphic resume of the Indian Mutiny, guaranteed to make British flesh creep...