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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME, Jan. 16, p. 12-that's what I call a map. Let there be more by the same artist...
...only a bore; yet some more charitable form of recreation might be their choice. If scholastic dignity should forbid the playing of cards, chess, checkers, or any of the lighter diversions of mankind, and there is nothing for it but to read the bluebooks as they are handed in, let them read in silence; let open mirth be restrained until the last victim has been led from the scene, and then let the rafters resound with Jovian laughter over the mistakes of mortals...
...succinct paragraph sweetly declares that to present the next forty years in which Talleyrand was Minister of Foreign Affairs under the Consulate; during the Empire; at Vienna; and under Louis XVIII;- "Would entail the survey of the history of France and Europe during the period", Perish the thought! And let us by all means make haste and be off in the remaining 125 pages to a consideration of the exciting details of Talleyrand's liason and marriage with Madame Grande, the very beautiful, albeit mildly illiterate, daughter of a French official at Tranquebar in India...
THIS very small book-really a book let-of some 90 pages contains about a score of short essays on subjects of a diverse nature, ranging from asparagus to goats in Italy and Scotch terriers in this country. The papers, so the jacket vouches are reprinted from "The Piper," the Publishers' monthly bulletin on books...
...whimsical, but is lacking in any real humor. But the book is perhaps suitable for a parlor table where its gay binding would add a note of colour and its very short essays allow you time to straighten your tie before welcoming your caller. If this be faint praise, let it be said that the another and his publishers could hardly have intended the book for anything more than the lightest of light reading...