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...industrious publishing firm has brought out three books expressing respectively suspicion of the motives, amusement at the manners, and rage at the methods, of the massive, muddling, Machiavellian empire of George VI. First was Howe's own England Expects Every American To Do His Duty. Next was Margaret Halsey's good-natured account of her stay in England, With Malice Toward Some. Most recent is Robert Briffault's The Decline and Fall of the British Empire...
...books like Quincy Howe's and Margaret Halsey's, English reviewers have an air of fixed agreeable tolerance. How they would take The Decline and Fall of the British Empire will never be known, since it will not be published in England. The most vehement book of the year, it consists of 263 pages of denunciation of England and all things English, her politics, smugness, selfishness, morals-even her birth rate...
...years ago the Rockefeller General Education Board gave $500,000 for this study because New York illustrates the best and worst points in U. S. education, has big city systems and many rural schools. A Board of Regents survey committee, headed by Owen D. Young, picked tall, spectacled Luther Halsey Gulick to make the survey...
WITH MALICE TOWARD SOME-Margaret Halsey-Simon & Schuster...
...generally compounded of publishers' ballyhoo and booksellers' hopes, do not include children's books or reprints. TIME'S list, arranged in order of nationwide sales, is based on actual sales figures for last month, supplied by leading U. S. bookstores: WITH MALICE TOWARD SOME-Margaret Halsey-Simon & Schuster...