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THE GENERAL'S RING?Selma Lagerlof ?Doubleday Doran ($2.00). Genius is sometimes dependable. Selma Lagerlof, ripe with the years and their laurels, can still spin a worthy tale of peasant simplicities and spectral horrors. Dreary and revengeful, General Lowenskold's ghost hovered near the priceless ring that had been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pervading Sadness | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

These men will have no tangible immortality in Harvard's traditions. Their names will no more be inscribed on records of Harvard's fame than will the names of those three dead Harvard graduates who gave their lives to the German cause in the Great War. Sometimes, as in this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INFAMOUS SONS OF HARVARD | 6/20/1927 | See Source »

With a large percentage of the youth of the country enrolled in colleges, those institutions should be no novelty to any man or woman who knows how to read. It is difficult to find a logical reason for all the excitement; undergraduates as a whole let the world, including such...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FIERCE WHITE LIGHT | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

A whole dramatic library has flowed from the devious but prodigiously brilliant pen of Professor Luigi Pirandello. His academic intimates know him as an erudite philosopher philologist. But to the world he is the playwright of Six Characters in Search of an Author. Last week he contrived in actuality at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Duello | 8/23/1926 | See Source »

A humble shoebag, heavy with potency, set amidst the whispering grandeur of mattresses, old iron, papers and rubber tires, joggled tracklessly through the streets of Springfield, Mass., borne on a junk wagon to ignominious barter. The frowzy-whiskered junkman shifted about in his seat when a motorcycle policeman ordered him...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Fashions | 7/26/1926 | See Source »

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