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...Schauffler-Macmillan ($2). Mr. Schauffler is an unregenerate word-and-phrase addict, or more politely, a poetic philologist. Give him a simple declarative idea and he will repeat it to you in a dozen new guises, tricked out in quotations, skipping in humor, prone in absurdity or radiant with glamour. It takes erudition, it takes nimbleness; but of both Mr. Schauffler has sufficient to jump over the conversational candlestick with our spryest informal essayists. Among the ideas herein prestidigitated are "Ignorance Is Bliss," "Cupid in Knickerbockers" (on calf love), "Timesquarese" (on alphabetical survival of the fittest) and "Unborn Words...
...colorful biography and embroidering it to the current taste in refined wantonness, when History's closet affords the skeletons of many such- authentic shades already advertised, even to an ill-schooled generation. She (internal evidence fixes the gender) has but to draw about the rummaged bones their traditional glamour, judiciously intensified and sympathetically explained. So here we have a florid Woman's Byron, contrived by a rather superior Elinor Glyn, who assures the finicky that she departs from historic truth "never knowingly," without once removing her rapt and gleaming eye from the hungry hosts of spinsters and pensive...
...many of the better attributes a knowledge of life and the theatre, a sense of humor, a touch of sentiment concerning the plays and players and an influential way of writing and talking. He is not too proud to have a boyish affection for what he calls the "glamour and delight" of Broadway, and he regards its shows and performances as an "endless adventure...
...doorways, sailors' knives flash; the rain beats a tattoo of talons on the windows of the house of Quong Lee; the wind sniffs under the door. Tom, the Hardcress Kid, is safe now, warm, dry, nor does he try to cast over the shiverings of his penury any glamour other than that which properly belongs to peril overpast. His book will interest some because it is a fine piece of prose, some because it is the story of a man who knew too well that dingy code of the Ivy Restaurant, some because it is the life of Thomas...
...feeling that has made so many Americans ludicrous abroad. Yet behind all this, one senses the thing that is responsible for the book, though not for its absurdities?the glamour and the mystery of China, that strange Empire, whose people go about the grave business of life with a ceremonial as delicate as that of a fashionable tea, and about the trivial business of death with a proud and rigorous grandeur befitting heroes. In so much, Mrs. Miln is successful...