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PROPERTY OR PEACE - Henry Noel Brailsford-Covici, Friede...
...COOL MILLION-Nathanael West- Covici, Friede...
Publishers Covici. Friede admit that A Cool Million is a rich mixture of Voltaire's Candide, Horatio Alger's Sink or Swim, Adolf Hitler's My Battle. Those U. S. readers who recall Author West's little-noticed satire, Miss Lonelyhearts* will expect something pretty funny as the upshot of this medley and they will not be disappointed. A Cool Million, of the Dismantling of Lemuel Pitkin is really a U. S.-imitation Candide. Though Author West's satire lacks the bite of Voltaire's, it is sharp enough to take the hide...
...adopted country. A GUIDE TO CIVILIZED LOAFING-H. A. Overstreet-Norton ($2). Hints on how to occupy the New Leisure, by a bright writer. NINE ETCHED FROM LIFE-Emil Ludwig-McBride ($3). Short biographies of Briand, Lloyd George, Stalin, Mussolini et al. PORTRAIT OF AMERICA-Diego Rivera- Covici, Friede ($3.50). Examples of Muralist Rivera's work, with introduction by himself, explanatory text...
Medieval Mummery THE FOOL OF VENUS-George Cronyn -Covici, Friede ($3). Of the ten long years that went to the making of The Fool of Venus, eight were spent on research and the other two were wasted. In spite of all the pomp and panoply of a conscientiously historical novel, this lengthy (438 pp.) tale of a 12th Century troubadour rarely makes sense as a story about human beings. By dint of piling on medieval facts and such medieval words as bliaut, destrier, devinalh, joc-partitz, tenson, Author Cronyn has built a massive keep whose outlines are impressive but inside...