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...BYRON: THE YEARS OF FAME-Peter Quennell-Viking ($3.50). THE ROMANTIC REBELS-Frances Winwar-Little, Brown ($3.50). In July 1811, Byron returned to England from the Near East. He was 23, bored, cynical, a voluptuary who declared he had "drained life to the very dregs." Heavily in debt, he dreaded his reunion with his fat, tactless mother who had taunted him about his lameness; he was oppressed by thoughts of living in Newstead, the chill, half-ruined manor that was haunted with memories of the crimes of his wild ancestors. He carried with him the manuscript of Childe Harold...
Both Captain Leavitt S. White '37 and Jack Dampeer '38 have been out regularly and seem to be rounding into shape. George Lowman '38, star from last year's Freshman team, is on hand, and the veterans Byron Moser '37 and Jack Mason '37 both give promise that no positions are assured...
...impression that Harvard was landing a bigger fish than it had actually caught. Barrett Wendell, who had complained about the abuse of Presidential power in making the appointment, was too honest to pretend to welcome Perry to Harvard. At their first meeting afterward Wendell launched into an attack on Byron's "Vision of Judgment", famous parody of Southey's culogy of King George Third, and upheld Southey's poem against Byron's. Perry writes, "..."I do not usually care for a literary debate while eating lunch, but I could not let anybody exalt southey's poetry over Byron...
...Kanner does not believe that Alfred de Musset fell in love at 4, Byron at 8, Dante at 9, Goethe at 10. He believes that they, like many another very young child, had a "crush" on someone. Crushes are not reprehensible, says Dr. Kanner. But they may occasionally lead to sexual affairs, especially if the person adored is not well balanced emotionally...
Stephen Chase (Pat O'Brien) arrives in China seriously possessed of the ideals inculcated by the company's training school. When he invents a cheap lamp which will make coolies buy more oil, he hands a drawing of it to his boss (Arthur Byron). When his fiancee jilts him, he marries the first presentable girl (Josephine Hutchinson) he meets in Shanghai because to return to his post single might cause him to look ridiculous and thus diminish his value to the company. Even when, as a reward for years of faithful service, his boss receives a humiliating demotion...