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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York March 1, 1923, and returned May 16, having steamed nine thousand miles, and crossed the Equator eight times. Actually less than 100 hours was spent on the islands themselves. It may seem absurd that a scientific expedition should spend so limited a time at its objective. The reader soon learns why. The Galápagos are all but uninhabitable. There is little or no water to be had on the islands. Water both for the boilers and for drinking and personal use had to be carried along. The Noma watered and coaled at Panama, sailed...
PRANCING NIGGER-Ronald Firbank -Brentano ($2.00). With such a title, the reader knows what to expect. He is not disappointed, for he is soon afloat in a sea of fantastic nonsense. Purporting to be a study of British West Indian life and manners, this book leaves one with a dizzying sense of relief that the British West Indies are far away. Carl Van Vechten's whimsical preface proclaims Firbank to be the "only authentic master of the light touch, a man who might be writing with his eyelashes or the tips of his polished finger-nails." Which...
...Towne has hard work to redeem himself from a rather poor start, from the point of view of the average reader. The introduction is too much after the style of the well-known Sir Walter Scott to excite any wild applause over the first hundred pages, but things eventually do begin to happen. The heroine is presented, some very vividly, phrased little incidents take place, and by the time the last chapter is reached, the characters are just tearing through the years...
...things happen, as the intense reality of the sordid Mr. Schreiner's call at the Kemper-Merritt's palacial home, and the dramatic accusation against Patty for cheating at bridge show, but is as a descriptive artist that he excels. His amazingly vivid and never trite phrasing makes the reader actually see the characters; his carefully constructed and cleverly told hits of action hold the reader with their nicety; and best of all, his delicacy keeps him within the bounds of decency, however immortal his theme may be. "The Gay Ones" is simply yet very well written, which cannot...
This is the first history of ancient sculpture that has been written with the American reader wholly in mind...