Word: huebsch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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LATITUDES ? Edwin Muir ? Huebsch ($2.00). A collection of criticisms on criticism, and essays about things and persons literary. Carlyle, Nietzsche, Joyce, Conrad, Burns, Dostoyevski all cataloged, labeled and ready for mounting. You may bristle at times at the author's unguarded superlatives of praise or blame...
...General of the United Sates, Harlan F. Stone, served during the war on the Board of Inquiry that appraised the sincerity of conscientious objectors. The following description of Attorney-General Stone by one of the men he examined is quoted in "The Conscientious Objector in America" by Norman Thomas (Huebsch...
...Bertrand Russell, now on a lecture tour of the United States, describes the difficulties of travel for persons whose opinions have not the official sanction of the country visited. "In England," Mr. Russell writes in his book, "Free Thought and Official Propaganda" (Huebsch), "it is illegal to teach belief in the Christian religion. It is also illegal to teach what Christ taught on the subject of non-resistance. In America no one can enter the country without first solemnly declaring that he disbelieves in anarchism and polygamy, and, once inside, he must also disbelieve in communism. In Japan...
JAMES JOYCE: HIS FIRST FORTY YEARS?Herbert S. Gorman?Huebsch ($2.00). A critique of the "most-talked-about man in modern letters" by an admirer who has abandoned the usual claptrap for eloquent and intelligent exposition. It is lucid and comprehensible. One need not necessarily be won over to Mr. Gorman's enthusiasm for Ulysses in order to pay tribute to the competence of this book...
...INDIA IN WORLD POLITICS-Taraknath Das-Huebsch...