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...bargain seemed less evident, but The Limited Editions Club flourished just the same. The reason was George Macy. A publisher before he was out of Columbia University, Macy had sold 11,000 copies of an anthology of F. P. A.'s light verse, organized his own firm, Macy-Masius. In 1928 he sold out to head the Vanguard Press, his last connection with plain publishing...
ALFRED E. SMITH: A CRITICAL STUDY-Henry F. Pringle-Macy-Masius ($3.50). Mr. Pringle, an unassuming member of the Naked and Unashamed Club of free lance correspondents, reports frankly, fearlessly, sternly, not without humor...
...BLOODY POET-Desider Kostolanyi-Macy-Masius ($2.50). In a parade of purple, the emperors of Rome go through the pages of old histories with the sound of loud horns. In the annals of Tacitus and those of medieval chroniclers, these men are present; their frail lusts and meagre rascality grown enormous through the grandeur of the empire which they destroyed. In writing about them, it is hard to make them merely human; some aura of the supernatural clings to the absurd magnificence of their palaces and their crimes. Now the wildest of them all, Nero, the Bloody Poet, is imagined...
ALFRED E. SMITH-Henry F. Pringle-Macy-Masius ($3). "Al Smith's face is always reddish. In the heat of a vehement address it becomes crimson. He sweats ... he is all that could be desired of a Governor, even by the most correct of critics. . . . His tailoring is immaculate, there is about him just a trace of his trucking days. ... He is discordant, often awkward, lacking in versatility. . . . Tremendously effective. . . ." It is difficult, in writing the biography of a living statesman, to indicate his character without becoming technically libelous. This difficulty Author Pringle has met rather than avoided...
...DRUMS OP PANIC-Martin Feinstein-Macy-Masius ($2). The aim of this nebulous narrative is to show the effect of the War not only upon a warrior but upon the family to which he returns. Author Feinstein is a poet. In fact he won the Nation's poetry prize in 1922. Hence his disregard for the pedestrian logic of coherent storytelling. In a fine frenzy of disillusion he causes the hero, named Edsel, to mouth his horror of the corpse-strewn Argonne, what time, back on the family farm, he cuckolds his hayseed brother Hiram. For some reason Hiram...