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Since it is avowedly "American", even containing slang expressions which had their American heyday some four years ago it cannot be taken as the English counterpart of the Lampoon. The English, however, should also be warned that the Lampoon is far from the typically American undergraduate comic publication. For such examples one must seek one of the many professionally collegiate periodicals...
...exploits that made him the American counterpart of Francis Drake reached their heights in the moonlight encounter between his Bon Homme Richard and the British ship-of-war Serapis; an encounter which began when the British captain, Pearson, cried: " 'What ship is that?' From the Richard came the reply: 'I can't hear what you say.' 'Answer at once,' shouted Captain Pearson, 'or I shall fire.' . . . The Richard's bo'sun leaned out of a port. 'Fire, and be damned to you.' " For a long time guns...
...Chief Rabbi of the British Empire has no counterpart in the U. S. Jews in the U. S. are yet too discrete, too centrifugal in their attitude regarding Judaism to make possible an office comparable to Chief Rabbi of the United States Hebrew Congregations of the British Empire, as the title goes in full. And although in England Chief Rabbi Hertz may be called His Eminence, his position does not resemble a cardinal's. A cardinal is an officer of his church's hierarchy; Jews have no similar terraces of theocratic dignities. Rabbi Hertz's chieftainship laks...
...First Report of the Class of 1926 of Harvard College has made its appearance and the interesting statistics prove nothing except that Harvard men are still entering the bond business. In its way this pamphlet is the mature counterpart of the Freshman Red Book, also a very contemporary publication; for the Report is the first record of the whereabouts and the occupations of those men who for one year have been out of college and who may have lost touch even in this short time with their classmates. It is, like the Red Book, a valuable reference and an opportunity...
Only two characters in this second novel of Miss Warner's assume any importance--Mr. Fortune and his maggot--Lueli. Lueli is a youth who is the literary counterpart of the cinematic "Moana". He is lithe, graceful, ingratiating, childlike--and quite pagan. Worse than any vampire bat, he destroys Mr. Fortune's placidity; he creates have in a heart which had thought itself immune from any emotion except a fervent hatred for the world, the flesh and the devil. His innocence precludes any anger and his simplicity demands friendship. As Mr. Fortune's man Friday he wanders through the book...