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...EIGHTEENTH CENTURY MISCELLANY - edited by Louis Kronenberger-Putnam ($3). Nine selections from the poetry and prose of the Age of Reason, with an introduction pointing out how little the present age has in common with it. Sterne, Blake, Sheridan, Gibbon, Walpole, Swift, Pope, Gay and the Earl of Chester field serve as examples...
Meanwhile the proposed referee, the League of Nations, far away and concerned with other matters, woudn't think of stepping in until the fight is well begun. A future Gibbon may reckon up the causes of the fall of two great empires to a nicety, without, however, finding either nation supposedly barbarous. But contemporary Americans can do little more than keep their coat-tails clear, and ignore, impartially, the lulling sing-song of Japanese apologists and the siren, two-toned voice of Russia...
Shakespeare, as well as Gibbon, Mommsen and other amateur detectives pinned the crime on Brutus; but Mr. Irwin's hero, Manlius Scribo, star reporter on "The Evening Tiber," the first experiment in tabloidia, had his own ideas about the murder. And Manny Scribo was on the spot...
GREY GRANITE-Lewis Grassic Gibbon -Doubleday, Doran...
Last February Death came to Archeologist James Leslie Mitchell, at 34. A literary dual personality, Archeologist Mitchell was also Novelist Lewis Grassic Gibbon. An authority on Mayan civilization (The Conquest of the Maya TIME, Feb. 4), he had written a Scottish-dialect trilogy (previously published: Sunset Song, Cloud Howe) and another big novel (to be published in the U. S. next season). Grey Granite, Author Gibbon's posthumous Parthian shaft, was the concluding volume of his trilogy...