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...Elizabeth Shields-Collins, daughter of an East Indian trader. Miss Collins and her collaborator. Michael Wallace, son of the late British Author Edgar Wal lace, did their work so well that to the second congress last week came youths from almost every important country, nearly every major church, every shade of political opinion. It claimed to represent 40,000,000 of the world's youth...
...Sheeler's home at Ridgefield, Conn. Few critics will deny that his work proves Sheeler an exquisite draftsman, an orderly spirit and a sophisticated man. His Self Portrait (see cut) is a prim parable: "The artist remains in shadow . . . and the cord is there to pull down the shade at any time. . . . If one chooses to go farther one may infer that he does not speak directly but through an instrument. . . . This happens to sum up the relationship of the classic artist to his subject...
Inventor Simon Lake's autobiography is a sketchy, tantalizing book, evenly divided between good anecdotes about submarine building and dull tirades 'against other submarine builders. Inventor Lake's anecdotes range wide: the Lake family's inventive genius (Father invented a shade-roller, Ira a telephone, Vincent a typewriter and Uncle Jesse and Uncle Ezra an unsuccessful flying machine); experiences in Russia when Simon was selling eleven submarines to the Tsarist Government; stories about the fabulous immorality of the Russian upper classes...
Like House of All Nations, The World Is Mine is a novel with an unpredictable future. Safest bet is that a few readers will enjoy its spotty but brilliant literary coloring, while the rest get the effect of a faulty spectrum that whirls out of a bad shade...
...girl, stays in the capital when rival correspondents are sent out to a non-existent front, scoops the world when Communists pull a coup d'etat, are frustrated by a mysterious British financier. Although in parts as funny as anything that Waugh has written, it sounds just a shade too much like wish fulfillment to have the true cold blood of satire...