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Carson, Gerald Hewes | October 1, 1924 issue

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The article presents information on two books. "Fancies Versus Fads," by G.K. Chesterton, and "Solomon in All His Glory," by Robert Lynd. Chesterton writes his intellectual autobiography in a tasteful script formed of the corpses of slain faddists and philistines. Robert Lynd is more engaging when he is communicating his literary enthusiasms than as a guide to the picturesque in London, England's town life, or as a votary of Nature, or as the mellow commentator watching human traffic from his ivory tower. The book contains no better sentence than this: "There is no doubt that it is becoming in an ever greater degree the tendency of newspapers to pay attention to poets who eat tulips."

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BOOKS & reading; FANCIES Versus Fads (Book); SOLOMON in All His Glory (Book); CHESTERTON, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936; LYND, Robert; AUTOBIOGRAPHY
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