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Last week young voices echoed against Trogen's green hillsides, while strong young arms sawed timber and dug cellars for new homes in the village. Trogen's best efforts, Walter Corti knew, would never house more than a few hundred of Europe's helpless thousands. But the thin man was not discouraged. Said he: "The main thing is to get this village going as a model for other countries...
ELIZABETH. EMPRESS OF AUSTRIA- Count Egon Corti-Yale University Press ($4). A sympathetic, frequently sentimental life of Franz Joseph's beautiful, neurotic consort. Skillfully told, carefully documented, it should provide a mine of anecdote for specialists in court gossip...
...microphone, similar to a telephone transmitter. In this, sound waves (in the air) were transformed into electrical impulses. These currents were intensified with a battery and discharged into the body. Seeking the path of least resistance the currents probably passed through blood vessels. Arriving at the organ of Corti (one of the essential organs of hearing) in the inner ear the electrical impulses apparently stimulated the auditory nerve (which carries sound impressions to the brain), gave the sensation of sound...
THIS book by Mr. Ravage in which he recounts the story of the House of Rothschild cannot but evoke immediate comparison with the recent work of Egon Caesar, Count Corti dealing with the same subject. There is evident, indeed, in these two works the difference between two methods of biographical or semi-biographical exposition. Mr. Ravage is essentially the popularizer leaving out of the picture much that goes to make a complete panorama of the times and relations in which his central characters find themselves; Count Corti is essentially the historian, realizing the important part which character and heredity play...
...Author. Count Egon Caesar Corti, descendant of a noble Lombard house, a former officer in the Austrian cavalry, was the biographer of Leopold I of Belgium and Maximilian of Mexico. In his researches, the name of Rothschild recurred. Intrigued, he assembled more than 20,000 documents for use in this book, began preparations for a second volume...