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CARAVAN-John Galsworthy-Scribner. Not a novel, but a collection of short stories, juxtaposing...
...Charles Scribner, publisher Litt.D...
...CHALLENGE OF ASIA-Stanley Rice-Scribner ($2.25). Once more the bugaboo of the Yellow Peril appears. The adjective yellow is admittedly loosely used, for the Asiatics are of a variety of hues. The author knows his subject, believes that the real challenge of Asia is concerned with dignity-a "desire that their voices shall count in the world's councils." The races of Asia mean to be respected; and, to ensure this, they aim to increase their material prosperity with the object of strengthening their political power. The white man evidently has the alternative of treating the yellow...
Such students have received severe censure at the hands of Ruth Steele Brooks, writing in the May issue of Scribner's who says: "Often the greater part of the student's day, aside from classes is spent in some sort of meeting, or preparing for them, meetings of departmental clubs, with programs, papers, and refreshments (someone must make arrangements for these things) or committee meetings over student government, to mention but two possibilities...
...GREAT GATSBY-F. Scott Fitzgerald-Scribner-($2.00). Still the brightest boy in the class, Scott Fitzgerald holds up his hand. It is noticed that his literary trousers are longer, less bell-bottomed, but still precious. His recitation concerns Daisy Fay who, drunk as a monkey the night before she married Tom Buchanan, muttered: "Tell 'em all Daisy's chang' her mind." A certain penniless Navy lieutenant was believed to be swimming out of her emotional past. They gave her a cold bath, she married Buchanan, settled expensively at West Egg, L. I., where soon appeared one lonely...