The following estimates of books much in the public eye were made after careful consideration of the trend of critical opinion:
ANTIC HAYAldous HuxleyDoran ($2.00). Of Theodore Gumbril, sometime Oxford tutor, and his superb invention Gumbril's Patent Pneumatic TrousersThey Protect the Lumbar Ganglia and Lend Incisive Poise to Businessmen. Of his extraordinary exploits in Love and Business, under the beaverish protection of a huge, artificial beard. Of Casimir Lypiatt, the boomingly futile would-be geniusand Shearwater, the scientist who investigated sweat and P. Mercaptan, the snouty-faced amateur of rococo amoursand Myra Viveash with...