Word: themes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...INTERPRETERS-A. E.-Macmillan ($1.65). A. E. (George Russell), brilliant Irish poet-journalist-philosopher, unites mystic philosophy and practical politics. The Interpreters is a platonic dialogue between a poet, an anarchist, a labor leader, an historian, a despot. The theme of their discussion, broadly, is the relation of "the politics of time to the politics of eternity...
Some Melancholy Mishaps In After-the-War Tolerance The Story. What story there is, is tucked away in inconspicuous corners of the book so as not to hamper the author in developing his real theme-post-war Europe. Bertram Pollard is one of those unusually effective majors in the War who find themselves correspondingly unequipped for earning a living after it. Pollard is married to Joyce, patrician to the tips of her fine fingers. But he has other demands on his sympathy-he is half-Irish, one brother-in-law is an Irish revolutionary, later caught and executed, another...
Community Book Shop has for sale at unusually low prices many books of more than passing interest in History. Here is a chance to gain that extra knowledge for your theme, your examination, or your personal satisfaction...
...love-crazed man seeking revenge on his successful rival and the woman who refused him is the theme of "It is the Law" at the Wilbur this week. Adapted to the stage by Elmer L. Rice from Hayden Talbot's story. This melodrama thrills and surprises for the first two acts and then tapers off rather weakly in the remaining two. The play should not be confused with "Within the Law", acted at the St. James last year; it is not as good. It appeals, like all melodrama of its type, primarily in the same manner as the oldtime whooping...
SALOME OF THE TENEMENTS-Anzia Yezierska-Boni ($2.00). A flaming Polish Jewess, from New York's ghetto, marries a highly refined settlement worker. After a stormy interval she finds him insufficiently passionate and turns to one of her own race. The world as she sees it is the theme of the book. The author knows her subject at first hand and makes it surpassingly vivid...