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The article discusses several books. "Hall of Mirrors," by Lenore G. Marshall, "Down the Proud Stream," by Carl Fallas, and "The Return of Kai Lung," by Ernest Bramah. To tell how Margaret Clay faced the possibility of going blind on the same autumn Saturday that her husband sacrificed the editorship of a big newspaper, which was censoring his labor articles, Marshall has built her story of blocks bound together by her conviction that reality has many aspects. Fallas' book presents a cameo picture of some of the infinite number of ripples on the sky-colored surface of the proud stream of life when youth is growing into mandhood. Bramah's little book, set in the never-never land of dynastic China, has for its ostensible subject the loss of a mandarins pigtail. In the rigidly ceremonial Chinese world, which Bramah predicates, this deprivation is synonymous with the loss of dignity, sexual and bureaucratic; and the quest of the missing pigtail becomes a national problem. |
