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Geniuses FIGHTERS OF FATE-J. Arthur Myers-Williams & Wilkins ($3). Author Myers has selected 24 distinguished hosts to the bacillus of tuberculosis, living and dead, and retold the story of their lives, in detail where their struggle with the disease is concerned. Paganini is first. Then comes Schiller. Then Bichat. A gloomy procession which marched (bravely and blindly) before the day of Koch and his discovery, before modern science had tamed the scourge. Gradually the light dawns. The last fighter depicted is Playwright Eugene Gladstone O'Neill, fruitful and saved. The author disbelieves in the theory that tuberculosis produces...
...even more neglected Revolutionary figure, one Haym Salomon. Mr. Salomon was a Jewish banker in Philadelphia. To him Jews wished to erect a statue in Madison Square, Manhattan. When the Municipal Art Commission refused to approve the statue, the cry of race prejudice was raised and Revolutionary history was retold to demonstrate Mr. Salomon's right to a monument. It was the Jewish "contention that Mr. Salomon had loaned to Robert Morris much of the money which Mr. Morris later contributed to the Continental Government; it was the Commission's contention that Mr. Salomon's exploits were largely legendary...
...story of Tristram and Isolt--of all medieval stories--seems modern imagination. Wagner, Swinburne, Hardy, and Belloc have all retold it, each changing it somewhat to suit his own purposes, but treating it always for what it is--one of the greatest love stories in the world. And now that such an important poet as Mr. Robinson, in the third of his Arthurian poems, has retold it once again, it is a matter of considerable interest to see with what success he has done...
...intensity, a reality, which belongs to their story, not to them. Mr. Robinson's poem is moving, after all, for the same reason that the Twelfth century poem is moving because of the situation, not because Tristram and Isolt are two living people. The story has been retold, not remade...
Signor Mussolini sped up the valley of the Tiber from Rome last week-up and up to crag-defended Perugia, the capital of Umbria. There he conjured a vision of sea power before men whose lives and thoughts are among mountains. Il Duce del Fascismo, smoldering-eyed, retold the ignominy of Rome before Carthage in the days when "Romans could not even wash their hands in the Mediterranean without permission from the Carthaginians...