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Eyes privileged to glimpse the advance proofs, last week, reported that the book is a voluminous answer to a possible hypothetical woman who asked Mr. Shaw to "explain Socialism." From this point of departure he launches into a potpourri of Shaviana keynoted by such statements as the following: The first principle of Socialism is equal income for all. . . . Every other system for distribution of wealth is unjust and illogical. . . . The Socialist experiment failed in Russia because the people were not prepared for it. ... England is today more communist than Soviet Russia...
...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...
...this contretemps: 1)The impassioned mass meetings which were held at Paris, Marseilles, Dijon, Nimes-in fact all over France. At these gatherings taxpaying voters protested fiercely against increased taxation and demanded instead the curtailment of Government expenses. 2) The party situation in the Chamber, which continued as a potpourri of recalcitrant "blocs," whose leaders appear to endorse the sentiment "every man for himself and the devil take the franc...
Every year, after the pilgrimage of Harvard students to New Haven, it becomes the fashion for art critics to spring up in the most unsuspected quarters to disparage Harvard's architectural potpourri. The touchstone by which Harvard buildings are tested is always the same, and results never vary...
...other important point in the new system is the chronological arrangement in which the literature courses are to be arranged, instead of the haphazard potpourri which they represent at present. By guaranteeing that no important period of English literature from Anglo-Saxon times to the present will be neglected, the faculty of the department makes possible a much more nearly perfect grasp of the development of literature, and incidentally guides the student toward the natural preparation for English divisionals. If this same system could be carried over to other departments, notably that of History, another perceptible advance would be achieved...