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...Editorial Foreword, commencing the magazine, deserves its leading position, As its title, "Gnothi Seauton," would lead one to fear, it has a faint aura of uplift and exhortation clinging to its verbal draperies. But this aura is indeed too faint to bother any but the most far-fetched nuanciren; if one disregard it, the discussion appears as an apt and thoughtful one. It is arranged around two quotations from Emerson: "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind," and also, "Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members." These...
Everyman, published in London, edited by Major Francis Yeats-Brown (The Lives of a Bengal Lancer), calls itself a "World News Weekly," copies TIME'S picture captions, attempts condensation, but otherwise little resembles TIME. A foreword to the first issue says "People want news rather than opinions. . . . We are against the barren doctrines of Socialism. Communism and class-war." In addition to news, Everyman contains a department of chatty miscellany called "This Cockeyed World," articles by Bertrand Russell, Andre Maurois, Elinor Glyn. Chief backers of Everyman are Publisher Sir John Evelyn Leslie Wrench, chairman and joint editor...
...foreword to the catalog Dr. Alfred Frankfurter expressed it more delicately: "The personal nature of a child and the artistic talent of a great actor, of a stupendous impersonator...
...foreword which comes last, Author Laing tells how near he has kept to the facts he dug out of almost a thousand books; tells readers where they may see a scale model of the Sea Witch (at the Museum of the City of New York), warns them they will find her figurehead no likeness of beautiful Mary Murray, but a gilded dragon...
There is a foreword by plump Dr. William Schroeder Jr., chairman of the sanitary commission and sponsor of D S. The engineer in charge of sewage disposal writes learnedly of progress on the unfinished new disposal plant. There is a detailed resume of the work of removing last December's snow, which cost the City "approximately $1,367,251.55." Auditor Harry R. Langdon quotes excerpts from musty official records of the appointment of a public scavenger of 1701 at $40 a year. Two pages are devoted to the department's Holy Name Society, two more to routine department...