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PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRACY-Alfred E. Smith-Edited by Dr. Henry Mos-kowitz-Harcourt, Brace ($3). Dr. Moskowitz, husband of a skilled publicist (Mrs. Belle Lindner Moskowitz), lets some of the candidate's addresses and state papers speak for themselves, aided by selection and arrangement...
CATHERINE-PARIS - Princess Marthe Bibesco-Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). This faithful chart of the peregrinations of high society in pre-War Europe is shocking evidence of just how pre-War dull those peregrinations were. Rumanian born, but bred in democratic Paris, Princess Catherine marries an Austro-Polish count, who withdraws immediately to his round of mistresses, leaving his consort to make her rounds of pompous European courts. Though Franz Joseph, Wilhelm II, and the Czar are the objects of the princess's irony, they prove as boring to her as to her readers. Not until she gets back...
CONDEMNED TO DEVIL'S ISLAND-Blair Niles-Harcourt Brace...
...ETERNAL MOMENT-E.M. Forster -Harcourt Brace ($2.50). Fifteen years ago when these stories were written, television was not an accomplished fact, nor flying taken for granted. Yet "The Machine Stops" (one of the stories) presupposes these for a subterranean segregated existence, predicates a punch of the button for mechanical medical service, punch of another for compound food tablets, another for a lecture, and yet another for a symphony. But gradually the music goes bad, the artificial air fouls, and the great god machine deteriorates quickly to utter non-function, vomiting its inhabitants up dark passages to death from unaccustomed...
...KNEW COOLIDGE, Being the Soul of Lowell Schmaltz, Constructive and Nordic Citizen-Sinclair Lewis-Harcourt Brace...