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There is a foreword to this excellent list. It has a quotation from Emerson, "In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity." There is a quotation from Charles Kingsley that books open their hearts to us as brothers. The foreword is an honest and genial invitation to buy books. But there imbedded in its midst is that, wayward word "catalog." No U, no E. just og. On the outside of the list, the same atrocity occurs. No U, no E. just...
...Foreword had gone about that the Democratic platform would be much shorter than the Republican. Instead it turned out to be of about equal length?perhaps a little longer. Whereas the Republicans took 24 hours to prepare their platform?although much of it was practically prepared in advance ?the Democrats spent four days on their platform, largely because of differences over the League and Klan planks...
...Significance. In this preposterous extravaganza of modern life, Mr. Cournos has shot his shafts blithely over the whole universe. There is, of course, not much more than a suggestion of the famed original Candide. In fact, the foreword has Candide objecting strenuously to his reincarnation as the son of a pork-packer, Cunegonde worrying about what's going to happen, and Pangloss not quite happy at being made a bootlegger. But this blithe young gravedigger has exhumed their altered corpses with such obvious relish that one has not the heart to quibble with what...
...causes that brought about the new scheme, and the motives of its founders are best expressed in the following foreword to the booklet...
William Lyon Phelps' foreword to the catalogue: "An exhibition of the works of Mr. John Sargent is the most important event of this kind that could at this moment happen anywhere, as he is the foremost living painter in the world. He has no successful living rival, but is in a class by himself...