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That snapping-jawed, tight-lipped fighter, that paladin in sailor's pants, Rear Admiral Mark Lambert Bristol, for eight years U. S. High Commissioner to Turkey, put a period last week to the most imposing paragraph of hard, successful work which any American has done in the Near East since the World...
...that, of course, doesn't revive Mr. Brisbane. It merely embalms him. Take some paragraph from his Boston message of last night. "Women are natural teachers; teaching has been their business from the beginning; teaching children, teaching husbands...
...slender and fragile tower out of the morass of modern fiction. Miss Warner, who was responsible for "Lolly Willowes, or The Loving Huntsman," is technically one of the most interesting authors now writing. Like Virginia Woolf, she never wastes a word. Each sentence is placed deftly, accurately; each paragraph is an exquisitely tooled bit. And like another woman writer, Willa Cather, she possesses a refreshing air of calm and quiet. When one reads her it is with a sense that the book is a treat; that it is of a rare vintage, not often obtainable...
This book is made up of his last critical essays, book reviews of the jaunty type that let you in on the book's title only in the third paragraph. The College will see there things on Dean Briggs and on Professor Abbott's "The New Barbarians". The general reader will share with the College a potpourri of Dreiser, Thoreau, Anatole France, de la Mare, Lardner, and Montaigne. Mr. Sherman's tastes were notoriously catholic; and here he shows, regrettably for the last time, an ability to be all things to all men that is as refreshing as note worthy...
...characters have conveniently died off. Venetia has always known that she would marry Young Raphael--so has the reader--but the interest is kept up till the end, as the characters at times become so involved with one another--that it takes a long time and even an extra paragraph...