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Ambassador (Col.) Noble Brandon Judah, home from Cuba's heat, called last fortnight on Maj. Gen. Charles Pelot ("Per Schedule") Summerall, Chief of Staff, and arranged to join his old regiment, the 332nd Field Artillery,* in camp at Sparta...
...impeccable manners and exquisite vintages, as a mage of the sinister arts, whose oval study is done in blue-and-gold leather with a star-powdered dome and a secret moonwindow. It is characteristic that Dr. Gentian's wife is a burned-out Greek beauty and that their daughter Sparta has a dazzling net of golden hair, grey eyes changing as a winter cloud, and a voice like "skeins of rock-crystal flecked through and through with tiny flakes of softest gold...
CLOUD CUCKOO LAND-Naomi Mitchison-Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). In the declining days of Greece- when Athens was being slowly done to death by Sparta, when the age-old conflict between democracy and oligarchy was being fought out more bitterly than today-this wistful tale takes place. Its hero, Alxenor, an aristocrat with democratic leanings, is driven from Poieêssa, his native Aegean isle, and follows a dubious fortune in Athens for a time, in Ephesus among the wealthy barbarians (Persians), in Sparta; and finally marches with the Ten Thousand under Cyrus into Asia, dreaming at the last the vain...
...they got Helen with her strange fascinating beauty, accustomed to what she wants, and baffled by her inability to come at what she most wants-life. At Sparta, the servants are taken aback when Menelaus restores her to her old place in his home, and Menelaus has to remind them that he has changed: "And we've been through the war, you should remember. Nothing can be quite the same again...
Once a student put this question to Professor Charles T. Copeland: "What," asked the young man, "was the distance, between Athens and Sparta?" "The same," answered Copey, "as the distance between Cambridge and New Haven...