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...Arthur Waley - Houghton, Mifflin ($3.50). "Being a continuation," continues the title, "of The Tale of Genji," of which multivolumed novel of 11th Century Nippon (TIME, Aug. 3) a third part will shortly appear. Prince Genji, son of an imperial concubine, sustains the family's amative tradition with graceful zest and much discreet slippering through his father's seraglios and the chambers of ladies, married and otherwise, among the plebs. In this volume he survives an exile inflicted upon him by his mother's chief rival, for his courtesies to her younger and fairer sister, coming back...
...first things that will strike you about Miss Jameson is that she belongs to that widening circle of young Britishers who have fallen into the habit of calling a spade a double-blank, worm-turning, corrupt appendage of his Satanic majesty. Some call it the return of Elizabethan zest, all this hardriding, goddamning and firing of bon-mots that whiz like shells by night but look like duds in the morning. Caroline, the female cad of this chronicle, is said to have served Love, "the capricious boy who makes bedfellows of us all." Another young lady is directly addressed...
...brew, taste the batter, try on the gown, wind the horn. So, thought Chicago's school superintendent, William McAndrew, should those supporting public education be permitted to ladle out a sample of the educational pot and try it to see if the contents have taste, body, zest, quality. Last week he caused 40 eighth-grade pupils, picked at random, to be assembled at desks on the stage of Fullerton Hall at Chicago's Art Institute. He brought together 500 school principals and invited citizens to be audience for the exercises. He chose seven "appraisers" to sit in judgment...
...Walpose expected to go unscathed after thus brusquely throwing down the gauntlet, he reckoned without his host. The Antichrist of Baltimore snatched it up with zest, and in half as many words as his oppouent proceeded to score almost twice the number of points, of which the following is a fair sample: "You hint that I'd have acclaimed Arnold Bennett's novel "Riceyman Steps', if the author had been an American! I leave this insinuation to a candid world--and you to the mercy...
...writing memoirs. These are just a few essays thrown together in book form-her stage patter put in print. It does not stand the test very well. She is engagingly frank in her manner but not very refreshing. Her "platitudes and plongitudes" are done with the usual zest, but they do not get anywhere. They do not read much better than the stuff of a newspaper reporter trying to be "racy." But those who love her on the stage will probably be satisfied with her in print...