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...title-play is like Alice's mad tea-party in Wonderland. At a continuous Christmas dinner lasting from before the Civil War to the present you watch a midwestern family pass from one generation to another. New characters appear; old ones go out the dark portal of death; as they get older they put on white wigs. As they grow up they say the same things their fathers & mothers said...
...years ago, Stuart Chase let a good deal of light into this jungle by writing a book called "Your Money's Worth," in which he showed that the individual buyer is hopelessly lost in a Wonderland of conflicting and meaningless claims. Though large consumers, such as great hotels, can command the services of testing laboratories and can lower expenses by letting manufacturers offer bids to their rigid specifications, the unprotected small buyer has none of the technical facilities to make comparative tests. Mr. Chase urged that unbiased information be made available to every intelligent buyer. Recently this has been done...
...Almost forgotten by the press and people of Madrid, Alfonso's aged aunt the Infanta Maria Isabel of Spain was left behind in the Palace when the rest of the family fled. Ill and past 80 years old, looking almost exactly like the Duchess in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland* she was not told of the revolution or of the flight of the family for fear the news would be too much for her. But the frenzy, the shouting in the streets reached even her tired ears...
...gathered a most comprehensive collection of books on China and the Chinese people." This he gave to Stanford University. It became the nucleus of the great Chinese library there. Dr. Rosenbach described how he had informed President Coolidge that the first edition (1865) of Alice in Wonderland was not to Lewis Carroll's liking and was therefore sup- pressed. President Coolidge had remarked: "Suppressed? I didn't know there was anything off-color in Alice...
...writing of the critics that Mr. Brown is most entertaining and keen. He speaks of criticism as that "lean-to in literature." Woolcott. Young and Nathan who wrote of the modern sex play as "The Adventures of Phallus in Wonderland" are all considered in the light of their critical idiosyncrasies. This section is one of the high spots in the book...