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...Saga of Thirst, Hunger and Weariness of the Flesh...
...alone, began a journey through the desert portions of Arabia that was to last two years, bring him into contact with tribes hostile to Europeans, subject him to the rigors of a life as severe and comfortless as that of an eremite. Solitude, the blinding heat of the desert, thirst, hunger, every weariness of the flesh he endured. Moreover, he did not attempt to pass among the Arabs in any disguise, but, wherever he went, bluntly proclaimed himself an Englishman and a Christian. Supporting himself largely by the sale of medicines, among people who preferred spells and amulets...
...Ecclesiastes, that the title of the current or just-completed Hasty Pudding Show, "Take a Brace", has nothing to do with the Fourteenth Amendment, or whichever the amendment is. Nothing, except the Bahamas, and there is nothing about the Bahamas as treated in the play to excite the thirst of the most bitter-ender of those who have paid their dollar and become members of the Association for Inneffectual but Vocal Protest against the (now it comes back to us) Eighteenth Amendment...
WANDERER OF THE WASTE LAND? Zane Grey?Harper ($2.00). Mr. Grey thinks this his "most mature and finished work." It is another tale of gunplay and men who are unquestionably men. The hero shoots his brother, almost dies of thirst, kills a man barehanded, engages in unsuccessful battle with a rattlesnake. "Death Valley", that California waste of bleached bones and sunstroke, is the locality chosen by one of the unpleasanter characters in which to frighten his wife to death...
...best works, and to do reading as much as possible in the original language, Professor Grandgent concluded, "From such study, derive the conception of a supreme artist, endowed with clearest vision, vivld appreciation of beauty wherever found, love of symmetry; a scholar of orderly mind and insatiable thirst for knowledge; a man of exceptional intensity of feeling; above all, a mighty champion and prophet of justice...