Word: chapters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chapter containing the least Halliburton relates a visit to Rupert Brooke's grave at Skyros. Of all the Playboy's heroes, Poet Brooke seems to be the most genuine. But Poet Byron comes a close second: "Lord Byron once wrote that he would rather have swum the Hellespont than written all his poetry. So would...
MATTOCK-James Stevens-Knopf ($2.50). Another chapter of the national epic...
...told Dr. Klein to cable his reports, but other consuls found he was gaining prestige thereby, and began to cable, too, reports which they had been accustomed to send in haphazard, and often a season or two late. . . . To close the chapter, Dr. Klein was promoted in 1921 to his present post: Director of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. There over 300 reports reach him daily; and out to U. S. businessmen go a daily average of 3,000 replies to economic questions. Says Dr. Klein: "We have a rule that a reply?not necessarily complete?must...
THIS study of George Eliot is only for those who are interested in the great Victorian novelist, and for those who are willing to lay aside their prejudice and be convinced, by a rational and quiet style, of her greatness. As Miss Haldane says in the last chapter, there is not one of the great Victorians who has suffered more from neglect since the war; the novels have not the satire of Thackeray's stories of London society, nor the luridness of Dickens tales of the slums; there is nothing but an unwavering view of the human heart...
...Dickens often misused the one and abused the other. Yet even the versatile author and creator of Pickwick would have asked Perry truncher to take the bones carted into Harvard Yard back to their cemetery. And Thackeray, who, for obvious reasons, never inspires such gaucheries, would have written another chapter of "Vanity Fair...