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...casually glancing through the pages the many statistics may detract from the attention of the book as something for light reading; surely it is a fairly Draconion dose of material that is presented here. And yet the work lies nearer to the reading category than to that of a historical dictionary...
Still reeling from a bludgeoning at the hands of Dr. Flexner, the chimerical farrago which for journalistic purposes is the "American University" has now been assaulted with other weapons. In the first number of "The American Scholar," Dr. John Erskine criticizes Universities in a way which strikes much nearer home for Harvard at least then did Dr. Flexner's attacks...
...other things both scientific and whimsical among them being "The New Belfry" in ridicule of some bells put up at Christ Church. It may seem incomprehensible to some that a mathematician could evolve such a wonderland out of his precise, factual mind. But reflect, has not a mathematician much nearer home erected for himself a wonderland of equal whimsy; and has he not also his new belfry...
...figures not at all in Return to Yesterday, comes no nearer than an occasional fleeting allusion. Yesterday, to Author Ford, is further back than that. Besides, he got a lot of the War out of his system in Some Do Not, No More Parades, A Man Could Stand Up, The Last Post...
...work is intensely interesting, but this should not obscure the creative and artistic qualities of "Crime and Punishment" and "The Brothers Karamazov." Mr. Carr's book is a dispassionate study of the great Russian novelist. The biographer believes that Dostoevsky, in his subtlety, brutality, piety, and lust, came nearer to the inconsistency of the Elizabethans than to any other age. His book, although often unsympathetic to Russian nature, is a readable and thoughtful analysis...