Word: duttons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ISLE OF THORNS?Sheila Kaye-Smith?Dutton ($2.00). Disappointment always follows the revival of a well-known author's early works. Such is the case here, for only in snatches do we glimpse the vivid characterization, the excellent narrative ability so clearly shown in Joanna Godden and The End of the House of Alard. It is a bitter struggle for Raphael, widow- er, father, country clerk, when he finds himself in the throes, of an utterly unreasonable love for an utterly unreasonable young lady, turned gypsy, from London. It is likewise a struggle for the reader...
...Medicine when injected directly into the veins often works more swiftly and successfully than medicine given through the stomach." So said Dr. W. Forest Dutton, Medical Director of the hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania, in reporting (from Philadelphia) the satisfactory treatment of several cases by a new method. The approach to the enemy bacillus through the bloodstream is called intravenous therapy. Formerly, only five drugs could be so administered, but today the number has been extended to 140, and the treatment is applicable to almost as many diseases. Especially in cases of pneumonia and diphtheria, the rapid passage...
MUSSOLINI-Edited by Parong du Son Severino-Dutton ($3.50). Baron di San Severino has, according to his preface, selected, translated! and edited the speeches of Benito Mussolini, as delivered between November, 1914, and August, 1923. The impression that the reader will receive is of a man whose salient characteristics are domination, simplicity, directness, courage. The speeches, per se, are not of general interest, but for anyone interested! in Mussolini, they are decidedly worth reading. Baron di San Severino has done an excellent piece of work, but he has not done it impartially...
...HUDSON: A PORTRAIT-Morley Roberts-Dutton ($5.00). A kaleidoscopic picture of the many-sided Hudson, done with honesty, humor and appreciativeness by his great and good friend. This is not a biography but a casually constructed group of stories and criticisms that merge into a coherent whole. Hudson stands, a hawklike, savage, difficult figure outlined in sweeping strokes against the background of a loveless marriage, drab boarding house surroundings, and fame that came too late for him 'to enjoy. His is the spirit of genius; he loved the windswept downs, the wild barren places, the creatures of the forest...
SOMEWHERE AT SEA-John Fleming Wihon-Dutton ($2.00). A salty, foam-flecked collection of short stories for those who love the sea-or Joseph Conrad-or both. Stories not alone of wrecks and lighthouses-though those are not absent-but a peculiarly graphic and moving analysis of a psychology alien to the landlubber; evolved, apparently, out of a sailor's long silent hours between wave and sky. The tales are like etchings, drawn with bold strokes, tense and stark, against the somber background of the ocean; they are best read with one's feet on the fender, safely...