Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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BLACK APRIL-Julia Peterkin- Bobbs Merrill ($2.50). A small book of sketches called Green Thursday, published three years ago, revealed Mrs. Peterkin as an interpreter of Negro peasants whose equal had not been seen since Joel Chandler Harris. Now Mrs. Peterkin has fulfilled the implication of her sketch book with a tremendous painting, a mural in sharp tempera, upon which appears the entire population of an isolated plantation-all the huts, with the doors open, all the hearths, pots, newspapered walls and floor chinks; all the hound dogs, sow pens, butchered hogs, wood piles; all the murmurous lanes and sweaty...
...Norwood ("Ding") Darling was ejected from Beloit College (Beloit, Wis.) for a disrespectful sketch of a professor. He settled in Des Moines, Iowa, and has not budged thence for years. His most famed cartoon: "The Long, Long Trail" (reprinted universally on the anniversary of Theodore Roosevelt's death...
...does the poet confine his line sketches to the medium of words: paradoxically enough, he uses the medium of letters. All through the book are little pen drawings built up of alphabetic script distorted to form pictures. Here too, humor pops up without warning, notably in the sketch of a whirlwind going up a flower. In short, he who reads "The Candle in the Cabin" will find psychological symbolism verging on the profound and subte wit verging on the hilarious...
Winston Churchill, Chancellor of the British Exchequer: "I called upon Signor Mussolini at Rome last week, and succeeded in convincing newsgatherers of the purely social nature of my visit by going out to the ruined Baths of Caracalla daily and working hard to sketch and paint them, facile artist-statesman-soldier-author that...
...very readable sketch of the career and accomplishments of Bertie Charles Forbes in TIME for Dec. 20, you conclude with the following sentence...