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William Lyon Phelps (professor-critic) wrote in his department, As I Like It, in June Scribner's magazine: ". . . Sometimes in solitude I explode with laughter; sometimes I wake up in the night to laugh at some memory. How can one help laughing in and at a world like this...
...SHOW?McCready Huston?Scribner ($2). With the edge of his desire for adventurous living dulled by environment, Branch Diversey found himself, at the outset of the War, an onlooker at life. Brought up by an overcareful mother, he had not followed his gay and reckless stepfather into the professional life of the circus. Instead he had made himself a rich lawyer by marrying the daughter of a political boss. Unsatisfied in his desire to live thoroughly and without compromise, he leaves his wife and goes to another girl in whom he has seen the possibility of a deeper relationship, tells...
...BROWN ab r h po a e Scribner l.f. 4 0 2 2 0 0 Edes c.f. 4 0 0 1 0 0 Parker 1b. 4 0 1 17 0 0 Hefferan r.f. 4 0 2 1 0 0 Gurney c. 2 0 1 6 2 0 Randall 2b. 4 0 0 0 0 0 Wright s.s. 3 0 0 0 3 1 Schuster 3b. 4 0 1 0 3 0 Burgess p. 0 0 0 0 2 0 Rawligs...
...PANTS-John W. Thomason Jr.-Scribner's ($2.50). A hurried Kipling, a carelessly capable War correspondent, Artist-Author-Captain Thomason writes about marines and soldiers, sailors and adventurers on the hot coasts of Cuba and in the lively fields of France. Exhibiting the scattered but emphatic vigor of exploding shrapnel, his stories lack the controlled and deliberate, effectiveness of heavier artillery...
...Author became famous when he published in Scribner's (monthly) his War impressions illustrated with burnt-match strokes. While these were selling widely in book form as Fix Bayonets, he was gathering fresh material at his post of duty with the U. S. Marines in Nicaragua...