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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...work was written on a hot summer afternoon in 1862 to amuse a couple of little girls. Today in Harvard it is used, along with "Just So Stories," to illustrate philosophy lectures. Quotations from it head the chapter in a textbook of economic theory. The Mad Hatter and the Cheshire Cat are co-immortal with pious Aeneas and Tom Jones...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JABBERWOCKY | 4/4/1928 | See Source »

...finally leaves his family to go on a Jewish mission in the Balkans. The thesis is that a Jew cannot lead a full and intellectually free life on earth when he does as Gentiles do. Many critics have passionately praised this book, but an epic is seldom written when an author is straining so mightily to create...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Epic? | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

...their alien companions upon those who are ill at ease in the world, sensitive, frightened and aloof. But what ever Author Wylie says, she says with flowers ; and often, the narrow white card, when it is finally discovered in the scented and elaborate bouquet of metaphors, has nothing written...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mr. Hazard's Maggot | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

Authoress Corbett has written an absorbing and unique biography by means of a series of short dramatic scenes and purported dialogues?between Whitman and others and betwee Allen Poe to "two Dartmouth Seniors." The book presents a graphic account of a man who wished to live his life into his poetry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Good Gray Poet | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

...following review of the current issue of the Harvard Lampoon was written for the Crimson by Robeson Bailey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EASTER FINDS LAMPY IN NEW GRASS-GREEN DRESS | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

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