Word: buchan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have big families was fashionable in England, as in the U. S., before the War. Thereafter women learned a new freedom and men tolerated contraceptives. England's birth rate declined. Recently the English birth rate has been increasing. Dr. George F. Buchan, medical officer of London, sought explanation. It lies with the women, he last week decided: "Every woman, every real woman, and there are more of the latter than the average person thinks, is desirous of having babies. . . . Present indications are that we are starting on another big family cycle...
...HALF-HEARTED. By John Buchan. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston...
...John Buchan according to the jacket, is the "greatest romancer since Stevenson," and is a veritable jack-of-all trades, combining the activities of "lawyer, soldier, business man, novelist, historian, essayist, poet, and member of the parliament." At any rate, it is reasonable to infer that Mr. Buchan is an intelligent man of considerable good taste, shrewdness, and literary ability. In "The Half-Hearted", there is nothing to make the reader believe the contrary...
...angular, hairy length of finely developed humanity who shambles about among the guests of a pretty Mrs. Cynthia Rylands on the Italian Riviera, talking calmly, kindly, but grimly and incessantly about the World State that science will eventually create. A sophisticated ineffectual from the U. S., a Mr. Plantagenet-Buchan, assists the great man by neatly defining as "meanwhiling" the occupation of all people, himself included, who are not consciously accelerating the World State's arrival. A timid Tory, and a British Fascist; a beautiful Lady Catherine; some tennis and bridge players including a Puppy Clarges (female) ; and Cynthia...
...action hangs on two incidents that one realizes, if one stops to analyze, and placed together for no good reason at all. But there is no reason why one should stop to analyze the book unless one has already read, as had the reviewer, a short story of Mr. Buchan's built around one of the incidents. This self-plagiarism Mr. Buchan acknowledges in a note in the front, but it seems rather a pity that he should have used old, and really unessential material, in the making of the book. Besides this, there is one slip in the writing...