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GEORGE WASHINGTON : THE IMAGE AND THE MAN-W. E. Woodward-Boni & Liveright...
...American Tragedy. Horace Liveright, who dared to produce Shakespeare in modern clothes, (TIME, Nov. 23) dares to translate Theodore Dreiser's bulky volumes into lean terms of theatre. A stark tragedy he presents, one that catapults relentlessly to fearful doom, dismisses its audience terrified, saddened, bewildered...
SWEEPINGS-Lester Cohen-Bom & Liveright ($2.50). A new dynasty has been founded in U. S. fiction. Its name is Pardway. The roots strike back to Peter Aram Pardway's smithy in postRevolution New England. The great branches flourish in Chicago where Peter's grandsons, dry Daniel and black Thane, have amassed fortunes by the opening of the pres-ent century. Today the Pardways are decayed and blown to the earth's ends; in their author's figure, the pillars of their temple have crumbled, the roof crashed. Their tragedy is that Daniel, who alone had increase...
...blood, with diverting irony, from the pros and cons of scholiasts. Allah figures in the tale as Mohammed's yes-man. For a more serious and comprehensive study of Allah, Arabia and Islam (though not of Mohammed), read Doughty's tremendous Travels in Arabia Deserta-Boni & Liveright...
TRAVELS IN ARABIA DESERTA-Charles M. Doughty-Boni & Liveright ($10). A whole civilization thoroughly experienced...