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LIVING PHILOSOPHIES-Albert Einstein, Theodore Dreiser, Hu Shih, John Dewey, H. L. Mencken, Irving Babbitt, H. G. Wells, Julia Peterkin, George Jean Nathan, Robert Andrews Millikan,Fridtjof Nansen, Sir Arthur Keith, James Truslow Adams, Irwin Edman, Joseph Wrood Krutch, Bertrand Russell, Bronislaw Malinowski, Beatrice Webb, Lewis Mumford, Sir James Jeans, J. B. S. Haldane, Hilaire Belloc- Simon & Schuster ($2.50). Not that it will help people to live a beautiful and true life but because it is always interesting to hear famed men praise or blame the eternal verities, this collection of credos is offered for serious summer reading. Perhaps from...
Henry Louis Mencken: "If, while the taxidermists are stuffing my integument for some fortunate museum of anatomy. a celestial catchpole summons my psyche to Heaven, I shall be very gravely disappointed, but (unless my habits of mind change radically at death) I shall accept the command as calmly as possible, and face eternity without repining...
...made of a witch-burning episode. The producers are able to make their characters do anything, I suppose, but, as far as I know, there have never been witch-burnings in this country. The idea of this form of execution probably received a great impetus from H. L. Mencken- he refers many times throughout his rather muscular prose to such affairs. As a matter of fact the form of execution was usually by hanging. If there is a case on record where a witch was actually executed by burning during the colonial period, I should like to learn about...
Sirs: Mr. Adolph Ochs, owner of what Comrade Mencken would call the "eminent" New York Times, having arrived in Hawaii on a holiday expressed himself to one of the local newspapers, the Honolulu Advertiser, as follows...
...gamut, one near to the game declared. In one lecture Byron, Wordsworth. Wackenroder, Hazlitt, Novalis, Chateaubriand, Herder, Rousseau, Goe-the and Voltaire clashed with St. Augustine, Confucius, Aristotle, St. Paul, Socrates, Dante, Plato and Marcus Aurelius, Sandwiched in between were Walter Lippman, Barry Elmer Barnes, John Dewey, H. L. Mencken, Picasso and John Livingston Lowes...