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...jockey remounted but the Miller refused at Valentine's Brook and was withdrawn. Avenger, overnight favorite because the track was soft, fell at the first jump the second time round, broke his neck, had to be shot. At odds of 100-to-1, Lord Mildmay's stallion Davy Jones took the lead from the start and held it the second time around, over Becher's Brook, around the Canal Turn and past Valentine's Brook. There were two jumps left before the finish...
PETER, CALLED THE GREAT-Maurice Bethel Jones-Stokes ($3). Heavily romanticized biography which makes Peter out a queer mixture of hysterical stallion and sadistic genius. ARTIFEX: SKETCHES AND IDEAS-Richard Aldington - Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Miscellaneous papers by an English writer whom the modern England much annoys. THE LADY OF BLEEDING HEART YARD- Laura Norsworthy-Harcourt, Brace ($3). A determined attempt to rescue the reputation of a high-tempered, comely, not-always-truthful Jacobean lady whom legend has confounded with others of the same name. WITHOUT GREASE-Frank R. Kent- Morrow ($2.50). Collection of the syndicated columns...
...submitted to him than Commissioner Reimer blossomed out as a stickler for artistic detail. The Noda mural was promptly rejected because Negro cotton pickers were shown wearing turtlenecked sweaters and creased trousers, because the creature pulling a poor blackamoor's farm cart seemed to be a full-blooded Percheron stallion. Artist Noda threw up his hands and his job, went back to California...
FLORIAN-Felix Salten-Bobbs-Merrill ($2.50). The career of a prize Austrian stallion parallels the last years of the Habsburg Empire. A sentimental but appealing story...
...materials used in the sculpture add to their interest and to the effect that they produce. One stallion is created out of cire perdue bronze, plated with gold and ornamented with lapis lazuli, ivory, and onyx. The Black Knight of Auchterarder, a champion bull, is hewn out of a piece of black Belgian marble, and is a figure of great simplicity and monumentality...