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...weight authorized for a piece of passenger train baggage; we burst into cries of admiration. Next I weighed myself; and then in token of friendship we weighed ourselves standing on the scales together, hand in hand. This would have made a fine picture for the papers." Author Raucat's book??? laughing, ironic, fantastic, sad?mingles the gayety of two nations; should excite the admiration of a third...
Life. A good place for a small boy with four younger sisters is away from home. The small boy of this book???shown solemnly erect in his Sunday clothes, clutching a prayer book, over the pompous legend,"Henry Havelock Ellis at the Age of Four"?circled the globe with his seafaring father before he was eight. The schools he later attended had no deep influence on his broadened young nature, though he became thoroughly grounded in French, German and Italian, and was not hindered in developing his taste for literature. At 15 he substituted Shelley for the Bible. Goethe...
Works. British officialdom chanced to elect Ellis' second book (Sexual Inversion) as the point of attack for a long-contemplated descent upon some people who were trying to better the lot of illegitimates. These people had put the book???a technical monograph?on their stall of sex literature for no better reason than that their publisher and Ellis' had sent it along. Nevertheless, Ellis' name was dragged through the sewer so efficiently that only lately has he been mentionable in polite districts of the tight little isle...
...appears that England has an intellectual counterpart of Apostle Macfadden in Capt. Anthony M. Ludovici. A lecturer and conversationalist, one-time secretary to the late Sculptor Auguste Rodin, married, 43, Captain Ludovici is ostensibly an opponent of British Feminism,* but his book??? dwells upon the physiological aspects of the argument with all the insistence and most of the exaggeration of a typical Macfadden editorial in breastfeeding, pride in body and "the happy congress of man and wife...
Sherwood Anderson is not an old man, but he has found life full enough to spill into an autobiography and he has recently written a great book???A Story Teller's Story*; He was born in Ohio, was Sherwood Anderson, of simple people, part Italian. He had a father who delighted in romantic lies and a mother who cared in a detached but positive way for her three sons. Of these early days Sherwood Anderson tells with simplicity and understanding. He draws great characters in his slow, involved, rhythmical way. Yet the greatest character is himself, the artist struggling against...