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...dull-and I can think of. few better recommendations for a magazine of this sort. The Saturday Review is as authoritative as all followers of Editor Canby knew it would be. Its editorials are clear, its reviewers carefully chosen. Its essays, if somewhat academic, have a certain charm. Mr. Morley's "The Bowling Green"and Mr. William Benet's "The Phoenix Nest" recommend it heartily to the large personal followings of these gentlemen. It is not in any sense a supplement to a paper. It is a review in the traditions of the English reviews, with somewhat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Weekly Reviews | 11/3/1924 | See Source »

...which you prefer as a critic and writer of stimulating editorials-for both write editorials and both are stimulating. Miss Anne Carroll Moore's survey of children's literature in Books is unusual and Isabel Patterson does the gossip, taking her place with Burton Rascoe, with Morley, with Benet, with the anonymous and changing Kenelm Digby. Whether or not these supplements survive, it is interesting and important that the public apparently wants them and wants, too, in large quantities the Book Review section of The New York Times, which, as a purveyor of book news, has never been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Weekly Reviews | 11/3/1924 | See Source »

Ramsay was for many years a close personal friend of the late Lord Morley (TIME, Oct. 1). Almost every Sunday that found MacDonald in "town" (London) also found him at Flowermead, Lord Morley's Wimbledon home. It is said that Ramsay acquired much of his political knowledge from "old John," as John Morley was known both before and after he accepted a Viscounty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: A Plateful | 8/18/1924 | See Source »

Sitting on the seashore in Normandy, dangling his feet over a cliff and cursing French pipe tobacco, Christopher Morley (famed colyumist) conceived an idea. He scrawled his pen over a piece of paper and sent it to a friend in the U. S. Said the sheet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Morley's Quip | 7/21/1924 | See Source »

...York) is a great paper. Mr. Munsey has fostered it and buttressed it with the corpses of other great papers, which he bought at large expense. The Sun's circulation grows steadily. Mr. Morley must have been thinking of the Sun's content-not its extent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Morley's Quip | 7/21/1924 | See Source »

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