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IMPERIAL PALACE—Arnold Bennett— Doubleday, Doran ($2.50).
Arnold Bennett loves big hotels, has a simple passion for their complicated, smooth-running luxury. As insatiably curious as the Elephant's Child, he had nosed out everything he could about the "luxury hotel." Imperial Palace's 769 pages, besides comprising a fine novel, contain enough information on hotel management to serve as a manual.
The Imperial Palace Hotel (modeled after London's Savoy) is, for purposes of the story, internationally admitted to be best of its kind in the world. Famed among hotel tycoons but...
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