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...COCK'S FEATHER - Katharine Newlin Burt-Houghton Mifflin...
...Struthers Burt paid the grocer, sent the children to school, on the proceeds of blood-and-thunder bestsellers, while her more distinguished husband wrote literature. Recently his literature has begun to pay, and his wife has snatched the opportunity herself to indulge in a little literature. As such, Cock's Feather is carefully designed, well-written. Never attaining heights of imagination or depths of tragedy, it is the consistent story of remarkably convincing human characters...
...great lords' joke was a cartoon by "Low"' (famed David Low), which appeared in The Evening Standard, a paper owned jointly by Beaverbrook and Rothermere but controlled by the former. Cartoonist "Low" took as his theme a new version of the old song "Who Killed Cock Robin?" illustrating each verse as follows...
...Cock...
...Cock Pit, however, is really a lateral book. It deals with a cross section of society, with the relations of individuals in that cross section. Mr. Cozzens pretends that this is not so--he furnishes a plot, and a rather melodramatic plot--but it, is really unessential. The longitudinal, progressive element in the book is insignificant, and the plot loses its claim to conviction in the happy ending, when Don Miguel, the omnipotent and implacable dictator, presents the heroine with some of Queen Isabella's jewels, in admiration of the really remarkable way in which she has thwarted his best...