Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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LOVES AND LOSSES OF PIERROT-William Griffith-Button ($2.00). The prose of this age is positive in spirit, like the prose of the 18th Century; the verse is negative, like the verse of the mid-17th Century poets whose inspiration was the English countryside rather than England. The main current of prose sweeps with the sweep of the times; its movement is, if not heroic, at least large; whereas verse slides, rebellious and cunning, against that heavier tide, like an eddy coiling back from a cataract. To find fault with contemporary lyricists because they make no attempt to reproduce...
...FRENCH REVOLUTION IN ENGLISH HISTORY-Philip Anthony Brown -Button ($3.00). Philip Brown was a young Oxford graduate who died a soldier's death on the fields of Flanders in 1915 in his 30th year. Prof. Gilbert Murray, famed Greek scholar, pays ample tribute to his great intellectual gifts in a short introduction...
Today the soldier has still to be recruited. Instead of loot, he is promised a voyage to parts of the great outside world. He is shown on dazzling posters the life that may be his when he is off duty. Looting is not mentioned, as are not drill, fatigues, button-cleaning, etc. In most armies, in fact, looting is a crime...
...QUAINT COMPANIONS ? Leonard Merrick?Button...
QUEEN CALAFIA-Vicente Blasco Ibanez-Button ($2.00). Ibanez has had excellent motion pictures made from at least two of his romances. The shadow of the silver screen is never lifted from this one. The plot is based on the legend of an Amazonian queen who loved her bitterest foe. In modern Madrid, Conchita Douglas, a woman of spectacular proportions who did not hesitate to demolish bare-handed a sinewy gentleman who caused her annoyance, fell in love with the son of an old enemy. Realizing that she was too old for him, she resolved to sacrifice herself, told him (falsely...