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...aesthetic judgement of truth--a feeling of harmony and unity. Unfortunately Mr. Dieffenbach's book does not contain the aesthetic requirements to be demanded from a book setting forth such views. The style is appalling. How does one think 'long, long thoughts,' and what appeal, if any, have puissant moral dynamics? Heaven defend us from such things. The cover of the book is blue and the print is large...
...Silas Hardy Strawn, for more than a year able U. S. representative at Peking on the abortive Chinese Customs and Extraterritoriality Conferences (TIME, Aug. 31, Nov. 2, 1925, et seq.) sketched last week the condition of China as he left it a month ago (TIME, Oct. 4). Mr. Strawn, puissant Chicago lawyer, Chairman of the Board of Montgomery Ward & Co., Director of the Wahl ("Eversharp Pencil") Co., said...
Charles MacVeagh, U. S. Ambassador to Japan, puissant barrister, Manhattan aristocrat, became suspect last week of being a descendant of the famed "Wise Men of Gotham." The most celebrated of their acts of wisdom was dipping water with a sieve at midnight to catch the moon...
There are, according to Mrs. Wharton's definition, three dimensions to the great Russian short stories, those which comprise the French sense of form, length and breadth, and that more puissant Russian one, depth, and its accompaniment of tears. The result is "great closeness of texture with profundity of form." As a sub-variant of the short story subject in general, the critic points out the supernatural in particular as a growth indigenous to the Germanic and English soils. It is interesting to discover that in the present book there is at least one story avowedly of this class, really...
...Night in Paris. Some weeks ago the puissant brothers Lee and J. J. Shubert imported from Paris parts of the personnel of Chez Fysher, notable night club. They set up in the basement of the Century Theatre a Manhattan Chez Fysher, which has become for those who cherish French entertainment a notable night club. To make their investment the more lucrative, the brothers determined to incorporate these performers into a revue on the Century Roof. This handsome playhouse, which for so long was the lodging of the Chauve-Souris, has been completely and tastefully redecorated for the occasion and named...