Books: Modern Inquistion

Modern Inquisition

PICK UP THE PIECES—North 3-1— Doubleday, Doran ($3). In Grimm's more lurid fairy tales one reads of ogres chopping off legs and arms to make the body fit a pallet. In circles of Dante's Inferno, and in histories of the Spanish Inquisition, are the rack, the wheel, ingenious machines of torture. In Pick Up the Pieces a victim reports the filthy straitjacket, instrument of torture in a modern, real-life insane asylum. North 3-1,—that was the number of his ward in the last institution he attended— is now a successful publicity director,...