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TOM TIDDLER'S GROUND-Edward Shanks-Bobbs-Merrill ($2.50). No one will ever accuse Edward Shanks of genius but many a reader will welcome his Tom Tiddler's Ground, a lengthy (552 pp.) but unpretentious novel of pre-to-post-War England, with a lyrical German interlude. Author...
French Professor Lewis Piaget-Shanks has translated Charles Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil (Fleurs du Mai); a Major Felten has illustrated the book in 16 modernistic black-&-whites (Ives Washburn: $3).
There is no grander heritage than a noble tradition. Traditions do more than add quaint lustre to old and great names; they grant a stability and a tranquility which would be impossible without them. In the darkest hours England has ever known she has hung on and muddled through, because...
Mass Production. When the speculative gaze of the Guggenheim brothers was arrested by Chilean nitrate, that commodity was, and most of it still is, extracted from the earth by the antiquated, piddling Shanks process. The "caliche," or nitrate-bearing earth, is broken up with explosives, loaded into cars by hand...
The Guggenheim Process starts out with electric shovels, progresses through concrete tanks with 7,500-ton capacity to mechanical refrigeration and centrifugal driers. Like the Jackling copper process, it permits the use of much lower grade ores-as low as 8%, which is less than half the minimum required by...