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...mittee cast about to find sufficient funds to start the work. Funds ($500,000) were speedily donated on behalf of the New York Times by its publisher and control ling owner, Adolph S. Ochs. The first volume is a dignified maroon tome. The biographies are entertaining, lucid, informative. There are no pictures. The publishers (Charles Scribner's Sons, Manhattan) are selling the first volume for $12.50, will sell the complete set 6 years hence...
...deep admiration for Wilson's genius, even after their close friendship had waned. Above all, the papers are invaluable as historical source material, ranking with Ambassador Page's Letters, and the Wilson papers Ray Stannard Baker is editing. Selected, arranged, and linked by Professor Seymour's lucid comment, the Intimate Papers are intensely interesting, indispensable to any adequate understanding of War burdens, post-War intrigues...
...judicial task (maintaining of course its authority as interpreter of the Constitution); Frankfurter and Landis, on the other hand, demonstrate the Supreme Justices' increasing importance as statesmen and economists. Of the two volumes, the former Justice's is the more readable, packed as it is with lucid case illustration, and the virtuosity of his own rich experience...
...Author. Distinguished disciple of Henry James, Edith Wharton fills her pages with lucid psychological analyses. She does so with much of the master's charm, none of his diffuseness, some of his greatness. Like him she lives mostly abroad, and writes of the U. S. Daughter of a Rhinelander, she was brought up to winter in Manhattan, summer in Newport, travel in Europe. Her most brilliant work reflects Fifth Avenue society of the '90s (in her House of Mirth, in her Age of Innocence), but oddly enough her masterpiece concerns the passion and remorse of a New England...
Editor Ratner does not presume to jazz up Dewey's honest prose, but he does great service in segregating from the great mass of Dewey's controversial writings the essence of his thought, and arranging in lucid sequence Dewey's conception of habits, impulse, truth, in their relation to civilization...