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BITTERN POINT?Virginia Macfadyen-A. & C. Boni ($2). We have but two fitful glimpses of the piratical, tongueless Turk of these pages. Both occur in a swamper's hut in the 18th Century Carolinas. We infer that he is shy a finger on his strangling hand, that his dagger has a permanent wave and that his ministrations upon the persons of five young women derive from Jack the Ripper. We infer, that is all. Yet that is ample to earn this Turk several graduate and honorary degrees in murdery. From the barest hints he becomes a lurking presence whose actuality...
...MARY GLENN?Sarah Gertrude Millin?Boni & Liveright...
...MORE PARADES. Ford Madox Ford. A. & C. Boni...
GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDS - Anita Loos, Boni, Liveright ($1.75). These confidences should be read in connection with that diverting hoax, The Diary of a Young Lady of Fashion in the Year 1764-65, by "Cleone Knox" (TIME, Feb. 15). They are those of an unamed young lady who was acquitted of murder by a weeping judge and jury in Arkansas, went into cinema, and has since been pursuing her education in Manhattan under the care and guidance of a gentleman named Gus Eisman. The latter is in the button profession in Chicago, and she calls him "Daddy" only when a place...
PRIAPUS AND THE POOL AND OTHER POEMS-Conrad Aiken- Boni & Liveright ($2). Here are 21 short poems and one longer one, compounded of dreams, half-thoughts and the stinging lash of passion, running in and out of obscurity, now fading into drifting leaves. Some of them, including the major piece, "Priapus and the Pool," suffer grievously from obscurity. In such the supreme function of poetry seems nearly lost- the function of making thoughts clearer than ever words were meant to make them. The more enjoyable poems are the simpler: the richly oriental "And in the Hanging Gardens"; the ironic...