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Last week in Cleveland, Bishop Frederick Llewelyn Deane of Aberdeen and Orkney, repeated a "bit of a jibe" about a woman (the U. S.) who rushed up to a kindly old gentleman (Great Britain), begged him to hold her baby (the League of Nations), then disappeared. Up rose Newton Diehl Baker to whom the League is dear. Said he: "I am not one of those who disowned the baby, bishop...
Skin for Skin?Llewellyn Powys ?Harcourt, Brace ($2.00). The three literary brothers Powys all gnaw without cease at the mouldering bones of old mortality. Llewelyn ("Lulu"), whose journal this book is, has best reason: for 16 years his lungs have harbored ghostly, blood-demanding tubercles. Yet Llewelyn is the cheeriest, takes himself least tragically. He lays life's grim intimacies bravely to heart: a fish taken unawares and frozen fast in black pond ice; a drunken quarryman who compares plowing the deep soil to sailing the sea; a wounded white-breasted hawk staked out for torture by African children...
...Author. In 1914, Llewelyn Powys went to Africa, where his brother had a farm, to avoid dying of consumption in England. He returned in 1920, published Ebony and Ivory, which won him instant recognition. Now he lives in New York...
...BLACK LAUGHTER-Llewelyn Powys-Hareourt, Brace...
...according to wages received and a grouping by age and sex. The system was not used again for years, however. The work of 1846 went for nothing because there were no subsequent data for comparison. In England the Labor office was established in 1893 under the leadership of Mr. Llewelyn Smith who is making an exhaustive search for correct data of hours and earnings of labor. In 1891 the Bureau of Labor was established in France. Specially trained agents are employed for thorough personal investigation and the results are classified according to the American method. In Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Germany...