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News is fleeting; Art is immortal. It is a sign of art in journalism when a man can turn out an anthology of news stories that is entertaining. Joseph Anthony has selected 77 stories from 43 U. S. newspapers and four news services. They make an entertaining book???a recommendation that news-writing in the U. S. has its artistic side...
...Edward W. Bok (Americanized Hollander) in a preface to Mr A. J. Barnouw's book??? gives interesting details about the Queen. Says...
...French Yellow Book???official Government report...
...proof of the pudding's in the eating, and the proof of Mr. Scotson-Clark's aphorisms is the fact that in all his long and urbane career as a gourmet he has kept health, youth and figure without needing either exercises or doctors. This is a delightful book???suave, discursive, affable, entertaining ? with recipes for such pleasant-sounding dishes as "Uncle Edward's Curry," "Marrow on Toast,'' "Dutch Cordial," "Veal Cutlet a la Charlie Sadler" inserted now and then like plums in a pudding. The only trouble with it is it makes one so hungry...
...time. The prescription will not suit all palates, but should, nevertheless, prove stimulating and provocative to anyone not a moron. A gorgeous but rigid dream?the acme of possible scientific and eugenic perfection?a fascinating and plausible illusion. And yet?in spite of all the merits of the book???one wonders at times. Can Heaven-on-Earth, if possible, prove quite so efficiently readymade...