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...MAGIC MOUNTAIN?Thomas Mann?Knopf (2 vol. $6). "An unassuming young man was traveling, in midsummer, from his native city of Hamburg to Davos-Platz in the Canton of the Grisons, on a three weeks' visit," Soon after his arrival, he perceives that his cigars have a flat taste. Before his three weeks are over, he has a bad cold. Before his return to Hamburg, to a world at war, he has spent seven years in a mortal fairyland...
MOTHER AND SON-Romain Rolland*-Holt ($2.50). Vol. Ill of The Soul Enchanted; the War by a pacifist...
...Soul Enchanted, a tetralogy of which this is Volume III, is author Rolland's effort to study a woman as he studied a man in his ten-volume Jean-Christophe. In Annette and Sylvie (Vol. I), the heroine, Annette, has her illegitimate son by Roger Brissot. In Summer (VoL II) she continues her emotional development, with three men, none of whom is quite the right one. Presumably, happiness awaits her in Vol. IV, now being prepared. Author Rolland, feminist as well as pacifist, is anxious to make Annette self-sufficient, Woman triumphant. With his gathering years, however, his writing...
...very accurate in giving things their right names. To live up to this policy, would it not be advisable to call from now on the former "Roman Catholic Church" just the "Catholic Church," which, after all, is its right name. I beg to refer you to the Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. XIII, Roman Catholic...
...most illustrious of living Frenchmen, first internationally famed for his successful championship with Zola of Captain Dreyfus. (See TIME, Jan. 4, FRANCE, "Tiger, Tiger!" for a life sketch.) He retired from public life, embittered, when defeated for the Presidency by "that vol-au-vent" (windbag) Paul Deschanel...