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...history were the purchase, in 1898, of the list of Boston's now defunct Roberts Brothers, and a joint publishing agreement in 1925 with the Atlantic Monthly Co. The Roberts list brought Little, Brown properties like Poet Emily Dickinson, Novelist Helen Hunt Jackson (whose Ramona was the dernier cri of the '80s), Edward Everett Hale (The Man Without a Country), Louisa M. Alcott.* Under the arrangement with the Atlantic Monthly Press, the Atlantic Monthly acts as a kind of Little, Brown scout. This has brought Little, Brown books like Mazo de la Roche's Jama novels...
...Dernier Cri. On the Manhattan market appeared a cookie jar that automatically yelled "Mamma!" whenever it was tampered with...
These were the only particulars that the Nazi-controlled Paris press allowed to leak out of the city. But the Cri du Peuple was permitted to say that conditions suggested open warfare. The Vichy press admitted: "We can expect to see street incidents multiply." With the French it had obviously become a question of terror for terror...
...twice a month for 15 years, Paris letters signed "Genêt" have appeared in The New Yorker and have been among the best things in it. In a style so well turned that epigrams seemed pure condescension, Genêt has written of everything Parisian from the dernier cri to the dernière crise without slipping from a fashionable tone...
...says one, "je n'aime pas le cri de ces animaux." Better than Indians, says the other. By the way, says the first, you haven't seen any snakes tonight, have you? No, not tonight-"Ce sont de sales bétes, ces serpents a sonnettes. . . " At the end of the Revolution, Lafayette cries: "C'est la victoire . . . l'alliance entre les Etats Unis et la France a triomphe!" Last program is a grand roundup of U. S. noises, including the roar of "les chutes du Niagara" birds twittering, a bear's grunt. Coney Island...