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COUNT BRUGA - Ben Hecht- Boni & Liveright ($2). Author Hecht is a rowdy. Often he is also a wit; sometimes, a philosopher. He has lavished all three talents on this latest volume, and if you cannot stand rowdies, do not read it. If you can stand them, you are certain to double up now and again over the libidinous antics of Jules Ganz, alias the "Count" (for whom, it is said, Author Hecht's friend and playmate, Poet Maxwell Bodenheim, furnished a vague original...
...TRAVELS OF MARCO POLO?Edited by Manuel Komroff ? Boni, Liveright...
EDUCATION AND THE GOOD LIFE- Bertrand Russell-Boni, Liveright ($2.50). This is a book for which a thoughtful public's appetite has been sharply whetted. When Mr. Russell, Britain's celebrated philosopher and mathematician, entered the field of psychology, it became apparent that he is no idle perfectionist but a thinker who refuses to shirk the humanistic implications of his theories. "What will he have to say about education?" was the question, underscored by the arrival of the Russells' two children...
...Banzai--John Paris--Boni, Liveright...
...FOURTH QUEEN?Isabel Paterson?Boni, Liveright ($2). Strapping Jack Montague?as virginally bashful a youth as ever scuttled galleons for Queen Elizabeth?looms while setting sail with the English fleet to obliterate the Spanish Armada. Authoress Paterson unsqueamishly relates that soon after embryo sailor Jack left port he "retched up his vitals"?a fair sample of the book's teeming archaisms...