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...three stories in this volume from an ascending climax of quality, so far as this reviewer is concerned, though the publisher's opinion is evidently different. "King Haber" has, perhaps, greater potentialities than either "Schoolmaster Taussig" or "The Patriot", but the quiet tone of the story leaves an impression of dullness rather than the solemn grandeur that is the author's intent. The character of this banker in a small German principality--a man who reaches the position of the Duke's favorite, and himself almost provides the heir to the throne--is a powerful creation, but the presentation never...
...Schoolmaster Taussig" is an early story of Neumann's, a grim naturalistic sex tragedy considerably more effective than "King Haber", though much cruder and more exaggerated. "The Patriot", familiar to movie fans as one of Emil Jannings best pictures, stands out as the most skillfully handled and the most appealing of the three stories. The gradual development of the conspiracy against the mad Czar Paul, the struggles of Count Pahlen against external opposition and against his self-accusations of ungratefulness, are told with careful objectivity, yet with a much finer dramatic sense than appeared in "King Haber". "The Patriot...
...hand in Germany were worth $30,000,000. Without this, the War would have ended within a few months. With it, the greatest care had to be used lest the supply give out too soon. Savior of the situation at this critical time was the great scientist Fritz Haber, who made practical the extraction, on a large scale, of nitrogen from the air. Thus began the commercial production of synthetic nitrogen. After the War, another German scientist, Carl Bosch, adapted the process to peacetime uses, and became chief of Europe's largest corporation, the I. G. Farbenindustrie. Now Germany...
Singles Breese defeated Epstein (C.C.N.Y.), 6-2, 6-3; Hill defeated Weir (C.C.N.Y.), 6-3, 0-6, 10-8; R. L. Tower 21 defeated Morgenstein (C.C.N.Y.), 6-2, 6-1: D. M. Frame '32 defeated Haber (C.C.N.Y.), 6-0, 6-2; K. B. Daggett '30 defeated Wolfe (C.C.N.Y...
Author Alfred Neumann, 35, is a Prussian, now lives in Munich. He made a reputation with Der Patriot (1925), Konig Haber (1926), won the Kleist Prize (1926) with Der Teufel. Other books: Die Rebellen, Rebels, Guerra (translation to be published this spring...