12 FEBRUARY 1927, Page 20

This Week's Books

IIonAcs: GREELEY'S mild blue eyes first opened at .Amherst, NN.H., on February 3rd, 1811. The story of his life, as the. busiest and boldest editor of nascent America in the middle. of the last century, is told by Mr. Don Seitz in Horace Greeley, (Bobbs Merrill Co., Indianapolis), with many of those deft touches of characterization which distinguished the author's Life of Pulitzer. Those early days of New York's growth. arc far indeed from modern life on either side of the Atlantic, and there are many passages of interest : this is one of those books that does not . compel interest, . but can be trusted to while away a few pleasant hours for the reflective reader in the right mood.

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