Word: edens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fire which damaged the Eden Musee,- famed waxworks at Coney Island (N. Y.), funpark, figures of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, James John Walker, Leon Trotsky, John Joseph Pershing, Gaius Julius Caesar, Decimus Junius Brutus, Jean Paul Marat & tub, Henry VIII, Mr. & Mrs. Tom Thumb were melted out of existence. Others who suffered: George Washington (broken nose), Booker Taliaferro Washington (complexion blackened), Charlotte Corday (loss of eyes), Marie Antoinette (decapitated). A fireman was injured, a dog shot, a cat burned to death. Rescued were Watchman Conrad Golly and eight Japanese billiardists...
...EDEN TREE-Witter Bynner-Knopf ($2.50). In the U.S. a poet's lot is not a happy one. Exception: Edgar Albert Guest, whom most of his fellow poets do not regard as a poet at all. Typical modern U.S. poetry does not sell for a good reason: misnamed "lyric," it is actually introspective, exhibitionist, an effort on the poet's part to escape from intellectual nightmare. Witter Bynner's poetic cosmos is top-heavy with intellect but more objective than most; he does not get hysterical about it. His poems are not great but they are masculine...
...Eden Tree is written in uneven rhymed lines that look jerky on the page but read easily. A parabolic narrative, its language stripped of ornament, it has few memorable lines (one of them: "There are always mornings and only some of them are good") but its cumulative effect is one of honesty, shrewdness, controlled emotion. It is better than most novels, which is more than can be said for most long poems...
When the Phi Beta Kappa Society met this year at Amherst, Phi Beta Kappas heard and applauded Member Bynner's Eden Tree...
...need his warning that his tale "is in no way to be trusted by the seeker after facts;" it is romance from the word Go. The peaceful African village where the four Negresses lived was a good imitation of the Garden of Eden; the Portuguese ship a floating specimen of civilized corruption. The Negresses were surprised, captured while taking a siesta on the dunes. When they had become fairly used to their shipboard surroundings they were given clothes; one of the priests began their education. He taught them to repeat, parrotwise: "Jesus Christ, son of a Virgin immaculate, died...