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  2. BOOKS OF THE DAY

    WHEN ROBERT LYND DIED ON OCTOBER 6, 1949, A MEMORIAL SERVICE was held in the church of St. Dunstan-in-the-West, Fleet Street, and, as Mr. J. B. Priestley said in his address on that occasion, "No better place could have been chosen." ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  3. Brazil Has Solved Its Race Problem

    AT A TIME WHEN RACIAL PROBLEMS ARE TROUBLING THE ENTIRE WORLD, IT IS OFTEN FORGOTTEN that at least one large country has succeeded in finding a solution. Brazil But when I recently pointed this out to a South African liberal, he said: "Don't say that in South Africa. In the South African view Brazil is a turbulent mulatto republic--white South Africans are horrified at the thought of the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,291 words
  4. World's Great Letters: Some Famous Writers

    WHEN IN THE BLACK YEAR OF 1941 THE AMERICAN PUBLISHERS, SIMON and Schuster, brought out their First Treasury of the World's Great Letters the result was astonishing. Within three months 300,000 volumes had sold and on to the desk of the editor, Mr. Lincoln Schuster, poured a mail of praise and criticism. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  5. Buccaneers of Literature

    ON THE HIGH SEAS OF LITERATURE, PUBLISHER PIRATES HAVE PLUNDERED the treasure-laden craft of unsuspecting authors, many of whom are well-known to us. Especially vulnerable were those who had written an "immoral" book or declined to put their name to a work. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  6. SELECTION OF Verses of C. J. Dennis

    WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THE 113,000 COPIES OF "The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke," published in the 10 years between the first edition and 1925? Today the first edition is a collector's piece, and to acquire a copy ...

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