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nany sad - a gentle Dut effective satire on'a situation wbicb is already being considereci in restrospect. It waS the year that business failed and among the failures was Mr. Otkar,ý a New York antique dealer. The only tbing wbich lie had salvaged fromn the' final auction sale was a large, old-fash- ioned bed, elaborately decorated'Witb scrolîs. of cupids and fiowers. As lie sits on this relic of prosperous days, contemplating.bis'vague future, an ex- tremely shabby, young man j oins bim. After Mr. Otkar, bas given bum the egg (bis last) wbicb behé was cooking, these two decide that the only solution té their probleins lies in setting out to- gether, So 'they secure a pusb-cart on whicb they Joad Mr. Otkar's bed and the young man's violin. (The young man is MorQris Rosce o wbma critjc, writlng of a concert, once said "Mr. Rosenberg was adequate.") Mr. Otkar turns the key in bis shop, for the last turne and'they set out for Central park. Here they .pass the first night, Mm. Otkar trembigly killing a pigeon for their supper. The next day fortune siniles on theni: they-become acquainted with Mm. Sweeney, a street-r sweeper, wbo is willing to tend them t spaae a. spade.-unizIce most Ar- icans, to whôm, says be "An. Amer ican -spade - ' is flot a spadq at ali; it is a sword, an implement o 0 knighthood, and to eaff it a'spade iù to, challenge our. fondest preposses. Wýith'facility, the author runs thte gamut of. human interests-men, let-i erhis tory, citicism itself; hie scanm them ailandwhile bis comments are flot always agretable, they are ',pene- trating, vigorous and of a fresh view- point; he bas défi nite thing.s to.;,say- ideas to convey-and he says and c onveys tbemn.* Mr. Brooks writes easily and fluently, apparently neyer at Ioss for words and exrsios is essays are neither "poky" nor wordy, and the, reader is kept on the qui vivze to follow his mental seven league According to, this author, America bas suffered frorn a lack of honest, constructive criticism; bis chapter on "The Critical Movement" enlarges this idea, and points out that uniess this country awakens to a-realization of this lack, there wiIl be a continu- ai stagnation of literary accomplish- menit. Mr. -Brooks, however, believes t ïha -t t h. -is a hold-over froin the dark ages, - as lot kept.pace witb the speeding, eup ofmodemn industry, and needs to f ejunked.: Theseare laims made byr sthe Tecbnocrats,,and premises. upon *wbicb their poliical and economic philosopby is based. e The only autborized ,ampli fication *and1 explanation of -the tbeory in' bookformi is "Introduction- to Tech-. nocracy" by Howard Scott, the father of the plan,. and others, to- gether with an introductory state- ment by the Continental. committee on Tecbnocracy, aànda selécted read- ing Eist, for, laymen from, the literature of science. Wbether or- not onle ascribes to ail- or any>of the beliefs of Technocracy the tbeory is, developed frorn cold facts, an energy sur vey of the North Ameréan 'çnineîitý. te survey has and is stili bringing to light figures and. factors beretofore ignpred b~y the economists and politicians seek- ing a Nortbwest passage througb the depression. This new knowledge, gathered to- gether in charts, graphs and tables by the Technocrats, sbould be a part of the intellectual. equiprnent of every individual who nr.efpnds toi ha. nnaia iEngIand prostitute," wborn Mr. Otkar 'quinir rescues froni drowning. These thmee, makir with the help of the Sweeney family, man. pass a conifortable winter in the tool- shed. The situation is sornewbat coin- NUIM plicated by the advent of a fugitive sc: banker, -Mr. Sheridan, who compares mplacency; in fact, i n a good deal like a dose of er in tbe taking, but takee feel like a new THE LANGUAGE 0F by Tobias Dantzig. Ph. dl edition, evised (Mac-1 Il- >'s " ecnuuracy, an Interpetra- t in,"ý a small pamphlet .wbich can .be absorbed 'in little more than baîf an hour. Here the material - has been sifted, predigested and "jazzed up" to suit the popular taste-simply thé' dif- ference between writing facts as the Teebtiocrats do, and writing litera-, ture as Mr. Chase does. r 1 should Rot De ta: SPerhaps more. seriously. at the Trinity. iany -other writ- I show no growth.. U fSKSHOPUI: UBRARY, Crds ~Siafionery Along Cornes Spring with Bok of Trav.1, M.m- and FascIting_ fiction EASTEIt CARDS Carry Messages of Cheer 1724 QRRINGTON AVENUE Qrrington o Mto.i Sd,. Evans$oe,