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...records are good, and procreate a real thrill...
...Story. To race on the tide of five centuries, to be a man for a while and know the thrill of mastery, to be a woman for a spell and know the subtler ecstasy of submission, to grow older in understanding without losing bodily vigor or mental finesse?this is the enviable life, and this is the life of Orlando...
...medley of deliriously discordant, rarely harmonious, characters-famous Artist Bidlake whose voluptuous youth has reluctantly passed into caustic Rabelaisian senility; his writer-son who flings aside a reproachful mistress for the wanton daughter of a musty scientist; a suave sadist who bullies, tortures, kills, for the sheer thrill of it; an editor-publisher, bitterly caricatured, who fleeces his authors, but shows his mistress an almost inhuman tenderness; a conversational philosopher who is said to be the author's particular mouthpiece. As such, he is a brilliantly garrulous person, for Huxley fairly seethes with things to be said about...
...BOOK OF WORDS-Rudyard Kipling-Doubleday, Doran ($3.00). A collection of speeches-1906 to 1927. Untouched by new-fangled ions and isms, the old-time Kipling remembers the lure of the Orient, the challenge of drums, the thrill of courage, the virtue in authority...
...Significance. Chicago's bootleg feuds, machine gun riots, gang run politics, are matter of course; but the inside story is still matter of conjecture. Author Kantor provides likely data for the conjecture, but his inside story is of an innocent accomplice who obeys with a thrill, and wonders what it is all about...