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IN DARK PLACES-John Russell- Knopf ($2.50). Twelve tales of savage environments and more or less savage people by the author of Where the Pavement Ends. A tourist searches for "the color of the East" and finds it strangely crim-son-a tropical grafter fights to the death so no...
In this finite world, great men are merely concrete examples of the "ideal possibilities" of nature. But Mr. Santayana speaks of "other essences" always present "in the womb of the infinite", and so suggests the question of "who is there today that is really great?" In literature there are many...
Nor is Mr. Haldeman-Julius unique in his field. The recently organized Kingsport Press, of Kingsport, Tenn., has established there a huge printing plant, with pulp and paper mill attached, to have a capacity of 250,000 copies a day. The Press's first order is an edition of 155...
And therefore it is with alarm that a recent critic has noted the fact that H. G. Wells has passed the half-century mark in books published. He considers that, perhaps, Mr. Wells may not be so great as many are apt to consider him. And in this he may...
The Duc de Valmont, in Pride, by Thompson Buchanan, is of the latter or " Zem were ze grand old days " variety. His past was bright mauve -his manners impeccable-as Kipling puts it, " He was wild and he was woolly, and his pride was inordinate." Moreover, he and the Duchess...