Books: Tract

EFFICIENCY EXPERT — Florence Converse—Day ($2.50). The blueprints on the office-wall, The graphs and the statistical Tables of averages, all Praised him mightily: , "Venite Exultemus." So Author Converse begins a poem on the Depression that might have turned out a satire if her Christian sympathy had not got the better of her partisan indignation. A 172-page narrative in various verses, Efficiency Expert is another indication that long poems are coming out of hiding, may once again come to be used effectively as satire, narrative or tract. Author Converse's poem is a tract...

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