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There has just arrived at my house a parcel from California containing: 2 Ib. tea, ½ Ib. gelatine, 8 Ib. sugar, 2 Ib. cocoa, i Ib. powdered milk, 3 Ib. dried fruit...
...Three Cities will trouble neither the ghost of Charles Dickens nor the minds of the hammock readers, its probable audience. It is quite harmless. But like most of the other "historical novels" whose chief distinction lies in the fact that they are too heavy to be shipped by parcel post, its interest lies mainly in suggesting the question: why anyone should have taken the trouble to write...
...goods were not delivered by October or November. Though not payable in cash, the forfeits would be settled by establishing Reichsmark credits applicable on purchases from the Reich. Meanwhile, Nazi trade efforts were expedited by batches of German propaganda material, dyes and machine parts sent by international parcel post, via Russia and Japan and in many cases delivered by U. S. ships...
Sincere, hearty, full of gallant buck-you-uppo, most of Priestley's remarks have been right down the U. S. alley. On food: "You can eat yourself sick if you want to, but of course it is very nice to have a parcel of America's noblest produce including perhaps a bottle of rye or bourbon." On parashots: "There we were-ploughman and parson, shepherd and clerk, turning out at night as our forefathers had often done before us, to keep watch and ward over the sleeping hills and fields and homesteads...
...Everything gives the impression of being too carefully and consciously calculated. Moreover, the orchestration is muddy and inflated. There are those, and I am one of them, who dislike Tchaikowski's excessively ballet type of orchestration, his pizzicato and arpeggio-mannerisms. But these are at least part and parcel of his style; they are handled masterfully and in such a way as to become a perfect vehicle for his ideas. But Brahm's true medium is the small lyric. When he ventures into the symphonic form, he loses all proportion. The scoring of the First Symphony and D minor piano...