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...story of Bluebeard and the study of the cult of Satanism and the Black Mass, the book is bloodcurdling, grotesquely horrible, reminiscent of William Blake. But then, one does not expect an Elsie Dinsmore story inside of a blood-red cover spouting pitchforks and lurid tongues of flame. The startled Manhattan censors recently frowned upon...
Prophets, as Mr. Golding said last night, are notoriously sure of themselves, and the revolutionary rise of the labor party to office in England has given them an unusually attractive subject for dogmatic predictions. If the idea was ever held that by radical and unconstitutional policies Premier a destroying flame of conservatism it has for some months been ridiculous. But that the labor government will soon begin to weaken has been the general American opinion...
...Greek lamp of Monarchism, which has been burning with an ever sicklier flame, went out. The Kingdom of the Hellenes became the Republic of the Hellenes by will of a majority of the people...
...MINDS-Carl Van Doren-Knopf ($2.50). In this new volume of critical essays, Mr. Van Doren again applies a skilful scalpel to his literary contemporaries. The very titles of the chapters are a triumph: Smartness and Light, for H. L. Mencken; Youth and Wings, for Edna St. Vincent Millay; Flame and Slag, for Carl Sandburg; Beyond Grammar, for Ring Lardner. He covers the field of philosophers, poets, wits, essayists. His estimates are tempered with sympathy, humor, real understanding. He praises and blames ; weighs faults against virtues. One reads on absorbedly for some time before one becomes subtly conscious that...
...discussed at length the factors that influence burning, showing how, by the addition of certain third substances, such things as iron could be made to combust and burn. Many different forms of flames were illustrated on a big table raised on the platform and Professor Lamb produced one mass of flame which he calmly held in his hand and picked to pieces...