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...brother, Felix M. Warburg, who married Frieda Schiff, has remained a partner since 1897. His forte is the philosophy of money???economics. Otto Hermann Kahn, who became a partner in 1897, after his marriage to Addie Wolff, is the star salesman of the firm, the "front window." Jerome J. Hanauer might be called the mathematical genius. Few minds can match his when it is applied to railroad financing. He?a partner since 1912, and the last to be admitted?is the only one not a son-in-law or a son of earlier partners...
...said that he had recently invested a sum of money???modest, to be sure, a trifle of $250?in the stock of the De Forest Phonofilm Corporation of Manhattan. Regretting his investment, he had gone to the office of the Corporation, asked for a refund, had been advised that if he parted from his stock he would be sorry all his life. He then offered, he declared, to sell his holding for $150, was told, this time more brusquely, that he had bought the stock would have to keep it. An individual named Elliott was president of the sales corporation...
...certain Mrs. Brawne "whose daughter senior," he wrote, "is, I think, beautiful and elegant, graceful, silly, fashionable and strange." He fell in love with this girl at once, she with him. Though circumstances?the increasing number of his sore throats, his intentness on his work, his need of money???kept them much apart, Keats' love for Fanny Brawne grew until it absorbed his life. One night, he rode on a stagecoach without his greatcoat, coughed a bright stain into his bedsheets. "I know the color of that blood," he said...
...descriptions have been overdone. It was, as Mr. Wassermann sees it, a society involved in the dry rot of overcivilization, going rapidly down "the great slide" because of a great decay. The translator's title is unnecessarily stressing the obvious when it insists that the book is about money???but more accurately it is about greed?greed for money and for other things as well. Wassermann's world is diseased by greed for sensation, for life, for security...