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Dates: during 1920-1929
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RUSSIA AND PEACE - By Fridtjof Nansen-Macmillan ($2.00). Certainly since the separation of Norway and Sweden in 1905, Fridtjof Nansen has been much in the public eye.* On his errands of mercy to Russia, he has had the opportunity to view and review the conditions under which that unhappy country has been existing for the past few years. The observations which he has made, and the information which he has gleaned, obviously from Soviet quarters, form the material for the book. Dr. Nansen has pictured, admittedly superficially, present-day Russia, her trade, financial, agricultural, industrial and educational situation. In each...
...following estimates of books much in the public eye were made after careful consideration of the trend of critical opinion...
...following estimates of books much in the public eye were made after careful consideration of the trend of critical opinion...
SONNETS AND VERSE?Hilaire Belloc ?McBride ($2.75). The jacket blurb announces that the author has here collected, with a few exceptions, "all his poems which he wishes to preserve." Some of them justify the lifted eye-brow which would query "Why?" Regrettable pages of triviality are interspersed with redeeming gleams of lyric beauty...
...late years with accounts of publishers who have found it more expedient to unite than to remain apart, he is a brave man who would risk one more such enterprise. In the years between 1840 and 1870, when Bennett, Dana, Greeley, and Raymond loomed large in the public eye, there were places and needs for a multiplicity of newspapers. The world, figuratively speaking was much larger from the point of view of communication, and the profession was still so young that methods and means were not yet hardened to a universal mould. One paper could scoop another by stealing...