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...Manhattan had obtained the publishing rights to two of the President's old addresses-one to the Izaak Walton League of America, the other to the citizens of Virginia at Madison courthouse (TIME, Aug. 26, 1929)- and brought them out in a limited edition (990 copies) with a foreword by Hoover Administrative Assistant James French Strother. Price: $7. Theme of each speech: less time between bites...
With this oddly grouped collection of seven strange tales, literature of the Argentine makes its bow to the U. S people under the watchful eye of Waldo Frank. Editor Frank explains his selections, places them historically, with a confusing foreword and clearer prefatory notes. After his explanations are read and forgotten the stories may speak for themselves, which they do in strenuous voices. Their unifying characteristic is a certain incoherence, which, in addition to violently poetic phrasing, makes it often difficult to tell what is happening. But though their literary quality fluctuates, their dramatic intensity seldom falters...
William J. Marsh Sr., an antique dealer, acquired for 50¢ an old-fashioned printing press, gave it to his son. In a foreword to Our President: Herbert Hoover, the boy explains that as a job printer "I done a real good business" but there appeared to be "more money in the publishing business...
...perhaps it should receive more gentle treatment than a similar work by one of the American pot-holding gentry. There are present many surprising word arrangements, many sprawling sentences, even a few errors in grammar that are apparent to an undergraduate, but then, as the publishers say in a foreword, the manuscript of the book was left unaltered for fear of spoiling the elemental vigor of it all. But if this is damning with faint praise, we'll go further any say that "Close Hauled", granting excuses, is second rate...
Though Author E. M. Delafield expressly states in a foreword that this book is not intended as propaganda against the Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholics will find little aid and comfort in it. Most of the characters are Catholic and are shown in a kindly light, but the villain of the piece is also the most faithful churchman. The tragedy hinges on the Catholic rules for marriage, against divorce...