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BONNET AND SHAWL-Philip Guedalla-Putnam...
CONQUISTADOR. American Fantasia ? Philip Guedalla?Harpers ($3). "Tall, unlikely towers steep suddenly out of the mist . . . group themselves into a city," and Historian Guedalla lands at New York to begin three months' inspection of the U. S. He finds Manhattan "an Unsleeping Beauty . . . ever so slightly undis- criminating." Boston is gracious, Kansas City a slim young sister of New York, and Chicago "the fabled melting pot ... not yet heated to a point at which the elements will fuse." To Mr. Guedalla its mayor, Hon. William Hale Thompson, is "a por- tent" and "a flamboyant emblem." Pleasing in Mr. Guedalla...
Concerning this amazing character, Philip Guedalla has apparently learned all that a brilliant bio-romancer can learn. U. S. readers will not object if Author Guedalla's treatment of political problems is so trifling as to make him appear lazy when he is not facetious...
...problems, however, are dead. But lively Lord Palmerston is no longer dead-thanks to Mr. Guedalla who writes so incontestably well that even a Fiji-Islander would jump with delight to learn, a fact from every page. For example...
...PALMERSTON-Philip Guedalla-Putnam...