“Limiting himself strictly to the national government, Dr Kimball has been able to maintain a better balance, to exercise a keener discrimination between important and unimportant matters, than would perhaps have been possible had he tried to cover more ground. There is no new interpretation of our national system, but there is compensation for this lack in the scientific tone and the uniformly high level of the treatment.” W: Anderson
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“He displays a due sense of proportion, states his views soberly, discusses concrete problems, not theories, and writes with a reasonable degree of readability.”
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KING, BASIL. Thread of flame. il *$2 (2c) Harper
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A story of lost identity through shell shock. The only memory left was of former personal habits which pointed to easy circumstances and a snobbish attitude towards the common people. Hiding his plight from those about him, and driven by want, he learns to earn his bread by the sweat of his brow and gradually achieves the workingman’s point of view. When memory returns in a flash he knows himself as a member of Boston’s moneyed élite and the husband of a brilliant woman. Returning to the old life he realizes its shallowness and unreality and sees our whole social structure as a house tottering into ruin. Even love is gone. He can no longer live the life and willingly renounces it, returning to his lowly occupation and associates in New York. Here too his new status has now changed everything and he is in danger of going shipwreck between two worlds when some of the friends found in adversity make it clear to him that not by struggling against the current, but by wishing and waiting in serenity the right way will open up to him.