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...Sylvia Beach, spinster daughter of a Princeton, N. J., Presbyterian divine. Because of its obscene passages it is officially barred from England, from the U. S., but many a copy has been booklegged. A translation of Ulysses appeared last week in French. On its title page: "Translated by August Morel, assisted by Stuart Gilbert, entirely revised by Valery-Larbaud and the author...
...MOREL-Karen Bramson- Greenburg ($2). A better book to pop into a steamer basket would be hard to find. Though the material is of the general warp and woof of which detective yarns are tailored there is positively no detecting but a great deal of sure suspense. Dr. Morel, "fashionable specialist" to feminine Paris, is no Dr. Jekyll who turns crudely into a Mr. Hyde by taking mysterious drugs. Rather he is a Jekyll-Hyde, a suave seducer and experimenter with the mortal coil. His undoing is his better self. The theme of a bad man unable to achieve...
...political significance of the incipient revolt is little, because most of the Liberals in the new House of Commons are faithful to Mr. George. If, however, Mr. Asquith should decide to return from Egypt to contest a Dundee seat made vacant by the death of Laborite Edmund D. Morel, and if he should be elected, the small Liberal group in the House may again become divided, as it was in 1922, under the leadership of Asquith and George...
...story tells of the life of one Pan Morel, the son of Nottinghamshire milier. His mother, though better eduessei and of a higher class than her husband has devoted her life to being her husband's slave, and raising for him a last and not always welcome family. Pan who is not born until well on in the story, and barely survives his drunker father's anger, turns out to be something of an artist. His mother manages to secure for him a fairly good education and he obtains a rather good position in the critical end of a stocking...
...Commander Kenworthy, Liberal, recently returned from a visit to Russia, mooted the question of Russian recognition. Mr. E. D. Morel, Labor, asked if there was any chance of getting the ?650,000,000 war debt owed by Russia. Mr. C. P. Trevelyan, Labor, emphasized the necessity of recognizing the Soviet Government. Mr. Ronald McNeill, Conservative Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, answering the questions, said that there was no truth in the assumption that the attitude of the Government toward Russia was due to prejudice against the Soviet form of government. "Britain will not recognize the Russian Government until it establishes...