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Poets Keep on Publishing Books HARMONIUM - Wallace Stevens - Knopf ($2.00) matches its odd, bright cover. The titles of the poems show the mood, Peter Quince at the Clavier, The Comedian as the Letter C, Hymn from a Watermelon Pavilion, Colloquy with a Polish Aunt, "princox, citherns, toucans, gasconade." Intellectual gymnastics, the tight-lipped playfulness of a strange imagination, sonatas for the piccolo-much that is merely sterile grotesquery - occasionally individual beauty, unfashionably arrayed but genuine-half-a-dozen or a dozen poems, firm-fibred, original, distinguished, ensuring for Mr. Stevens a small but positive niche in the imaginary Valhalla...
Andrew W. Mellon: "The Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church issued an official and formal statement on the subject of Canadian liquor. Referring to me the Board said: 'We suggest to him with the best of good wishes that he be a watermelon on this occasion...
...dinner pails will not be full--they will be empty--but each will be of ten-quart size, and into each, the men, filing past well-stocked counters, will place such things as please their palates--clams, a lobster each, watermelon, coffee in cups specially provided, cigars, cigarettes, tobacco and a pipe. They will then march to the beach which will be the gathering-place for luncheon...
...exchange says : "Can the watermelon be successfully cultivated on sandy soil, with a theological seminary near by, containing a hundred and twenty students studying for the ministry...