Word: reader
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Author's Pajamas? Lewis St. Clair, popular novelist, arose from his perfumed couch, par took of a frugal breakfast of spaghetti and vodka, and stepped out into the glare of his prominence. His 5,000,000 readers, of varying sexes and doubtful ages, gave little excited shivers and trained their opera glasses immediately upon him. For it is a characteristic of all readers that they would rather see an author than read another of his books. They would give ten times the price of his complete works to know that he parts his left eye-brow in the middle...
...repay better the time and effort given than biography. In the Sale, inaugurated today, at Community Book Shop, one may find a wonderful list of books about the great, the interesting, and the accomplishing personages of this and other eras. A perusal of the following titles will convince the reader that here is an opportunity not to be missed. Unique are these books, and worth while...
...forgotten to look about him and learn. The last section of the book, in which he tells of the fabled "King of the World", and sets forth Buddhistic prophecies and miracles, is undoubtedly a more than unique thing. Strangest of all--the passage that causes the Christian reader to gasp as he suddenly and without warning runs his eye over it--is the first recorded appearance of the "King of the World". A Buddhist legend, a myth if you will; this King appeared in India and Siam over two thousand years ago. And "he blessed the people with a golden...
...student's choice. It will no longer be necessary for the Freshman to decide on Chemistry merely because be likes to potter about in he laboratory, on Mathematics because it has no Divisionals, or on English because it seems nearest home. The articles will try to give the reader an authentic idea of the field for which he is best fitted. As an Oriental might say. "The venders of the fruits of knowledge display their wares. Let each choose carefully, using both his eyes...
...appeal of the book is extremely limited. To the general reader it is bound to be about equally dull, confusing, ridiculous, and shocking. It is a book compounded in equal parts of the most painfully literal and the most elusively symbolic. The combination is a shade trying. And there is an irritating lack of humor. It is hard to sympathize with anyone who takes himself as seriously as do both Mr. Anderson and his hero. It is altogether too easy to allow one's sense of the ab- surdity of a good many of its episodes to cloud...