Word: seidel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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THOREAU - Henry Seidel Canby,-Houghton Mifflin...
...scholarly yet decidedly reasonable account of our "first civilized American." as Charles Edward Russell once called him. . . . Of course, Carl Sandburg's "Abraham Lincoln: The War Years" is the biography of this or, apparently, any other year. A new edition of "The Pratrio Years" is now also available. . . . Henry Seidel Canby's "Thoreau" is a good, solid work on a great American writer. . . . Havelock Ellis' "My Life" is an undistinguished chronicle of a distinguish life. . . Henry F. Pringle makes "The Life and Times of William Howard Taft" a far more appealing and interesting book than one's impressions...
...Cinemactress Bergman is ballyhooed as something producers dream of-a star who can really play the piano-in Intermezzo neither she nor Leslie Howard plays a note. Anita's pianoises are made offset for her by Norma Boleslawski, wife of late, great Director Richard Boleslawski. Famed Violinist Toscha Seidel plays second fiddle for Leslie Howard...
THOREAU - Henry Seidel Canby -HoUghton Mifffin...
...Henry Seidel Canby's Thoreau, dressiest biography of him so far, is timely rather than definitive. Canby unearths scant new material, finds no satisfactory answers to such speculations as: Was Henry in love with Emerson's wife? Was it Margaret Fuller, the Transcendentalist, to whom he sent his famous "hollow shot" No to a marriage proposal? The fact is that Thoreau's own writings contain just about all there is on Thoreau...