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BRYNHILD OR THE SHOW OF THINGS- H., G. Wells-Scribner...
GREAT MOTHER FOREST-Attilio Gatti -Scribner ($3.75). Italian explorer's lively account of his expedition to the Kibali-Ituri Forest in the Belgian Congo. Well-illustrated (photographs...
...Manhattan publishing office of Charles Scribner's Sons was aging Author Max Eastman (Enjoyment of Laughter) conferring with Editor Maxwell Perkins. In walked hefty Author Ernest Hemingway (Death in the Afternoon) and demanded an explanation for Eastman's writing an article in the New Republic, later reprinted in a book of essays, called "Bull In The Afternoon" which concluded: "But some circumstance seems to have laid upon Hemingway a continual sense of the obligation to put forth evidence of red-blooded masculinity ... a literary style, you might say, of wearing false hair on the chest." Author Hemingway called...
...notions. Transferred to more congenial, lower-class parishes in Philadelphia suburbs. Rector Colony established a barter system for the unemployed, a "school of the poor for the poor" which was to be supported by penny contributions. In 1934 and 1935 he wrote articles for Harper's and Scribner's, respectively, comparing the U. S. Episcopal clergy with that of pre-War Russia and accusing U. S. mission boards of "building battleships for Japan." David Colony also made his way to Harrisburg for a hearing on a Sunday cinema bill, cried: "I am willing to stand in my pulpit...
...SAGA OF AMERICAN SOCIETY- Dixon Wecter-Scribner ($4). Dispassionate, 504-page history of U. S. socialites since 1607. concluding with a quiet suggestion that, as "hostages for its own safety," the upper crust would do well to spend more money on living artists, cultivate the English tradition of public service, cease showing...