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...bargain day this week for adventure-story readers. For the price of one big book, they could get three. Captain Horatio Hornblower is an omnibus of Cecil Scott Forester's three novels (the first two, Beat to Quarters and Ship of the Line already published) of an English naval genius in Napoleonic times. More imaginative than Mutiny on the Bounty, it is that rare book, adventure romance treated realistically, lively entertainment with sound historical background, fast narrative with subtle characterization. Captain Horatio Hornblower stacks up with the most exciting and best written adventure stories in the language...
...years, ago, in Milan, Italy, a new weekly magazine called Omnibus appeared. Skillfully edited by Leo Longanesi, 33-year-old Fascist journalist, it printed political articles, photographs of pretty women and, as its specialty, the fiction of such little-known foreigners as Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell. Italy's best magazine, Omnibus quickly became its most popular as well, with readers clamoring for more & more contemporary U.S. authors...
Particularly steady readers were Mussolini's censors. Last month they decided they had read enough. Omnibus was suppressed, and Editor Longanesi was told by Minister of Press and Propaganda Dino Alfieri that he would not again edit an Italian magazine, thus sparing the good folk of Italy a "debasement of morals" and a waste of "good money...
When the Cambridge City Council met Tuesday night to hear Councillor John J. Toomey attack Harvard and Radcliffe as a "half-far passenger, with a special privilege pass, on the omnibus of municipal progress," and when it ordered rotund Mayor John W. Lyons to appoint a committee of citizens to discuss taxes and "other pertinent issues" with University officials, it was reviving a question that has long been a monkey-wrench in Harvard-Cambridge relations...
...TIME really feels, as it claims to feel, a responsibility towards its readers to review books of poetry, may I suggest that its manner of discharging that responsibility is unfortunate? Even omnibus criticism owes the reader a greater courtesy than that of the smart epithet. You have shown, in your excellent reviews of the poetry of Cummings and Garcia Lorca, that you can describe verse intelligently and soberly. Consequently it is all the more disheartening to read your high-school wisecrack dismissals of Dr. Williams and Miss Taggard-writers whose long service to American poetry certainly deserves more consideration than...