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...GEORGIAN SCENE-Frank Swinnerton-Farrar & Rinehart...
...when Alf, the older, starts running around with girls. Ted is hurt and miserable. Alf becomes engaged to Laura, then is killed in a motorcycle accident. Loyal, devoted Ted marries Laura to give his name to Alf's unborn child. Writing his story in a manner reminiscent of Swinnerton's Nocturne, John Hampson has made much of decidedly slender material...
...sipper of fine wines), lots to spend, cannon crackers, yacht rides-Hearst's staff were his familiars, and his paper's contents were historic. He had Ambrose Bierce, Gertrude Atherton, Joaquin Miller and Mark Twain on his payroll. Also Thomas Nast, Jimmy Swinnerton, T. A. ("Tad") Dorgan, Homer Davenport, Harrison Fisher, "Bud"' Fisher. In the Examiner first appeared "Casey at the Bat'' and "The Man with the Hoe." (A Negro doorman turned away Rudyard Kipling when he came peddling Plain Tales from the Hills.} Hearst hired special trains at the slightest drop...
...over the neglect of the psychophysical processes of sex in medical education; an article by Ernest Boyd deriding the pseudo-erudition of the U. S. aesthete, the New Humanists, and what he called The New Republic of Letters; a humorous comparison of U. S. and English publishers by Frank Swinnerton; an insane courtroom scene by Ring Lardner parodying the incoherent meanderings of James John Walker's defense counsel in the ex-mayor's trial before Governor Roosevelt (TIME, Aug. 22 et seq.); a vitriolic attack on the Church and censorship in Ireland by Liam O'Flaherty...
...GEORGIAN HOUSE-Frank Swinnerton-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Comedy of English village life, by England's most pedestrian essayist...