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Kidnapped (Twentieth Century-Fox). In telling this story. Robert Louis Stevenson indulged in a few frank errors. But the only far-reaching one was his foreword, saying ''how little I am touched by the desire of accuracy." For from this offered inch Hollywood was bound to make an ell. The past cinema season has been pretty rough on Stevenson-adding a blonde Kozatsky dancer to the Soviet's Treasure Island (TIME, Jan. 31), flaunting an unimagined Hollywood ingenue in a Technicolored sarong in Ebb Tide (TIME, Nov. 29)-but in Kidnapped, R. L. S. takes the count...
...Walter A. Jessup, president of the Foundation, commented in a foreword to the report: "The study is a landmark in the passing of the system of units and credits, which, useful as it was a third of a century ago, is not good enough...
...under $5. The Phaidon's top price was $3, for an edition of Botticelli containing 101 plates, 14 in color, and an introduction by the eminent Critic Lionello Venturi. Lowest price was $1.50, for The Disasters of War, Goya's series of 85 etchings with a foreword by the late Elie Faure. Others were big books of reproductions of Titian, Cézanne, van Gogh, the Impressionists, Rembrandt...
...purpose of the book, according to the foreword, is "to aid in bringing about a greater cohesiveness in the classes, to provide a medium whereby the student may breaden the scope of his friendship and acquaintance, and to serve as a dignified record of the School...
...Vicki Baum insists that she has jumped on no Bali band wagon. As long ago as 1916, her foreword says, photographs of the island so fascinated her that they became her favorite smelling salts against "war, revolution, inflation. , . . ." Nineteen years later a sight of the real thing outdid her dreams. And then an old Dutch colonizer died and left her a trunkful of manuscripts, among them an "interminable" novel built around the final conquest of Bali by the Dutch in 1904-06. Her long novel is "a free paraphrase" of this lengthy legacy...