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...stories even though, as he sadly admits, British rates of pay are "pitiful." There are at least two reasons for Bates's persistence: 1) he writes some of the best short stories of any Englishman of his generation, and 2) whenever he turns out a novel, e.g., The Scarlet Sword, Fair Stood the Wind for France, the critics usually deplore them. In Colonel Julian, a collection of 15 stories about fairly ordinary men & women, Author Bates is back at his proper underpaid trade...
Foul was the night, and black the situation. Four hundred desperate Spaniards, crammed captive in the hold, had rushed in dead of night upon their guards, seized bayonets, and sliced their way through British flesh to mastery of the H.M.S. Renown. The dawn lit a scarlet scene: human rubble on the decks, the scuppers running with gore, the Spaniards in command. Brave Lieut. Bush, bleeding from nine wounds, lay hidden after the melee behind a cannon's hulk. "What would England say?" he asked himself bitterly. "What would the navy say?" Ah God, if only Hornblower had been there...
Poised and slim in her sober, untinseled bullfighter's costume, blonde Patricia McCormick flashed her scarlet cape at the second of her two bulls. The first had been tame and lackluster. The crowd at the Juárez bull ring knew that if the first U.S. professional torera's debut was to be a success, this fight had better be good...
...both Manhattan's East Side and in Algeria, taught Egypt how it might free itself from schistosomiasis-a disease caused by the blood fluke, carried by snails. It built the $8.000,000 Peking Union Medical College ("We must create the Johns Hopkins of China!" cried one trustee), studied scarlet fever in Rumania, malaria in Nicaragua, undulant fever in France, oroya fever in Peru, dengue fever on Guam. It set up a yellow fever commission under General W. C. Gorgas, and one of its doctors-Wilbur A. Sawyer-eventually found an effective vaccine...
Public Faces. Now that Brooks has finished his grand tour of American literary history, the strengths and weaknesses of his five volumes are abundantly clear. Anyone looking for profound criticism-of say, The Scarlet Letter, Moby Dick, Leaves of Grass, Sister Carrie-will not find it here. Nor is it impressive as intellectual history. Brooks croons over Emerson for pages, but is singularly vague in defining his philosophy of transcendentalism. He refers to Dreiser's concern over the relation between morals and success, but does not say what that relation was. Nowhere does he approach the lucidity and incisiveness...