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CICERO - G. C. Richards - Houghton Mifflin ($3). A prudent, patriotic, eloquent Roman genius, Marcus Tullius Cicero had the historical misfortune to live at a time when the more spectacular genius of Julius Caesar dwarfed all lesser men. Cicero's deeds have been forgotten, and he is remembered as the author of great models of Latin prose over which schoolboys still suffer. Last week Dr. George Chatterton Richards, offering a biography that called belated attention to the great orator's political virtues, tried to show the heroism and timeliness of Cicero's many middle-of-the-road perplexities...
...fiscal year draws to its close, it becomes our duty to consider the broad question of tax methods and policies. . . . If a Government is to be prudent, its taxes must produce ample revenues without discouraging enterprise...
...light of these considerations, it is folly for the United States to attempt to throw pillows of diplomatic intrigue in the path of the Japanese Frankenstein. This does not mean that Nipponese aggression is thereby condoned. But it is far less expensive and far more prudent for the United States to mind its own business and strive to take advantage of the impending Japanese agression in the light of American interests...
John Buchan, 59, is a smallish, tightlipped, prudent Scot, an able romanticist in most of his 50 books, an able realist in life. Son of a middle-class preacher, he has many potent friends, few enemies; many abilities, no vices. He has been a lawyer, private secretary to the High Commissioner for South-Africa, justice of the peace, soldier, Wartime director of Information (propaganda), book publisher, director of Reuter's news agency, member of Parliament from the Scottish Universities. He has written a score of excellent adventure stories, such as The Dancing Floor, Greenmantle, The Path of the King...
...bankers or no, financial ineptness is almost a railroad tradition. With a few notable exceptions like Burlington, Union Pacific, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, Chesapeake & Ohio and Norfolk & Western, U. S. railroads have habitually increased their fixed charges when they should have reduced them; they have sold bonds when more prudent corporations were selling stock; they have paid dividends when they should have been paying off debts; they have sunk millions in improvements that failed to up traffic or revenues; they have frittered away millions trading (for "strategic reasons") in stocks of other roads...