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One of the masterpieces of the collection is a book entitled "The Anatomy of Drunkenness." It is by Dr. Robert Macnish of Glasgow, who claims to describe all stages of infoxication from "the delightful stage when one is neither drunk nor sober" to the eventual possibility of spontaneous combustion in...
Conductor Walter Damrosch reported returns last week from his radio concerts for school children. Fully 1,000 letters a day have come in, "show that this country is really hungry for fine music. And not only the children, but the grown people. The older people who are listening in to...
Ivy Ledbetter Lee, mercurial informator, pronounces Wells "delightful, and his good-natured banter and satire a marvel of fine conversation." Versatile extremes, such as Kipps and The Time Machine, Floor Games for Children and The Undying Fire, mark his tremendous output of some fifty volumes aside from articles and pamphlets...
The number of sharp prods that Mr. Huxley can get in at things like art, science, and theology in his process of dissection is amazing and thoroughly delightful. The old nobleman who seeks to find God in his grotesque experiments with lizards is typical of the men Mr. Huxley finds...
Ariadne, never among the most successful of Strauss operas, has had frequent amendments. In its present form there is a prologue and one act, which makes a play within the play. Ariadne, tragically abandoned by Theseus, must listen to the cajolery of Zerbinetta, the comedienne; listens to learn and herself...