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As an author, Colonel Beaty is an amateur. His work violates the two basic rules of modern fiction; viz: 1) put in all the sex and sadism that the traffic will bear, and 2) portray every white man born south of the Potomac as illiterate or degenerate, preferably as both. How shocking his book will be to contemporary taste you may judge for yourself when you learn that his two heroines, although they can read and have passed puberty, are virgins unsaved by Freud, and that the most prominent young man in the story not only respects his grandfather but even comes to accept wholeheartedly the Southern traditions of his family. The author attempted to present an objective picture of life in Piedmont Virginia in 1939, and, aside from a few reticences, he has departed no farther from reality than is inevitable in any artistically organized narrative. A number of readers will enjoy—at least as a novelty—this story about people of fundamental decency.

This collection of cartoons may be regarded as an American supplement to the ponderous quartos of Dr. Kind’s Die Weiberherrschaft and Eduard Fuchs’ Die Frau in der Karikatur. The German works contain, of course, a learned and solemn commentary. The American editors use laboriously simple language to explain the obvious. But most of the cartoons are amusing.

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As an author, Colonel Beaty is an amateur. His work violates the two basic rules of modern fiction; viz: 1) put in all the sex and sadism that the traffic will bear, and 2) portray every white man born south of the Potomac as illiterate or degenerate, preferably as both. How shocking his book will be to contemporary taste you may judge for yourself when you learn that his two heroines, although they can read and have passed puberty, are virgins unsaved by Freud, and that the most prominent young man in the story not only respects his grandfather but even comes to accept wholeheartedly the Southern traditions of his family. The author attempted to present an objective picture of life in Piedmont Virginia in 1939, and, aside from a few reticences, he has departed no farther from reality than is inevitable in any artistically organized narrative. A number of readers will enjoy—at least as a novelty—this story about people of fundamental decency.

This collection of cartoons may be regarded as an American supplement to the ponderous quartos of Dr. Kind’s Die Weiberherrschaft and Eduard Fuchs’ Die Frau in der Karikatur. The German works contain, of course, a learned and solemn commentary. The American editors use laboriously simple language to explain the obvious. But most of the cartoons are amusing.