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FAMOUS ANIMAL STORIES-Ernest Thompson Seton-Brentano ($3.50). Collection of old favorites, including some...
WHAT I REALLY WROTE ABOUT THE WAR-Bernard Shaw-Brentano ($3.75). A wily prima donna among intellectuals, George Bernard Shaw knows that to hold the public eye it is necessary to make frequent appearances on stage. His present occasion, to lay the dust he raised when he wrote about the War, is made happy by many witty words. Having "no ethical respect for modern Capitalist civilization," Socialist Shaw "contemplated the British, German and French sections . . . with impartial disapproval. I felt as if I were witnessing an engagement between two pirate fleets, with however, the very important qualification that...
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...name was Bettina von Arnim-Brentano. She was the child of Maximiliana von Laroche, one of Goethe's many loves, and may have thought (thinks Rolland) that she was actually Goethe's daughter. Her own affair with Goethe was rapturous but platonic, except for some early scenes in which the poet behaved himself like Daddy Browning. When Bettina met Beethoven he was still unfamous but very conscious of his worth, and she wrote rhapsodically to Goethe about this unappreciated musical genius. When they finally met, however, Goethe thought Beethoven uncouth; Beethoven considered Goethe an anxious snob. When they...
NIGHT NURSE-Dora Macy-Brentano...