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Dates: during 1920-1929
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THIS ECSTASY-Elizabeth Stern- J. H. Sears ($2.50). The title of this tale, the purple cover which surrounds its 384 pages, are good hints. In a style which appears to be the offspring of a union between A. S. M. Hutchinson and the King James Version of the Bible, Author Stern, in the first person, unfolds the humdrum history of a young writer, later turned advertising man, later turned merchant. His unimportant love affairs, his inconsequential pokings at life with a stick, fail to acquire emotional value or intensity by virtue of the magenta draperies which muffle the recital...
While your magazine or newsmagazine as you call it serves its purpose, I am content to let my subscription run out. The trouble with TIME, as I see it, is that it is too brief. You do not have space to cover thoroughly your subjects. Hence please cancel my subscription...
...people to whom I send your magazine (would that all who received gifts could be prodded the same way), and they are very much pleased with the gift. They don't all like the whole magazine. One doesn't like the red outline on the cover, and another doesn't like the way you published certain details of the Chaplin case which the so-called "reputable newspapers" omitted, and the third thinks that you are all right. As for myself, my renewal in advance speaks for itself...
...N.S.F.A. has been organized only a few years and last year, for the first time it sent over 200 students to Europe on its tours. The tours this year will cover every section of Western Europe and have been so arranged that students wishing to spend more time in one section of a country in order to study it may do so while others wishing to make a most inclusive trip may cover more territory...
When I closed the pages in a mood of reminiscence and looked again at the cover rather wistfully, I though. Yes, we can make fun of children's stories, but this doesn't seen; to rub the bloom off. We like them all the more for their artlessness, their quaint little ways. And how harmoniously the editors worked together to create their Wonder-Book and to maintain throughout their tone of genial fantasy...