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...Waste of the ointment...
MIRAGE-Edgar Lee Masters-Boni & Liveright ($2.50). The story of a man who has a "genius for self-laceration." He has loved a woman who is unworthy of him; and though he realizes the utter "waste of the ointment," he still is carried on-the helpless victim of a mirage-by fleeting glimpses of the woman that she might be. The book is profoundly analytical, studied with something of the grim irony that pervades the Spoon River Anthology. Its philosophy shifts at times from an almost Rabelaisian turn to Oriental mysticism, and back again...
...Bird in the Ointment...
There is one fly in the ointment, however. The General's secretary states that the old man is unable to remember what he has done with his hat. The secretary is of the opinion that in the excitement of the moment the General may have tossed it over the goal post, but the latter is unable to confirm this. Furthermore there are two hats on the rack which the secretary feels confident do not belong to the General. What...
...wound that every ointment scorns...