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English Critic Frank Swinnerton has said that Huxley "may yet lead his generation, and the younger generation, into a state of grace out of which great things will come." However much they admire Huxley's encyclopedic knowledge and acid wit, followers are likely to balk at the regimen he lays down for those who want to achieve a "scientific-mystical conception of the world." It includes meditation, love, compassion, intelligence, moderation, physical fitness, chastity, which the ex-idol of sophisticates defines as "one of the major virtues." The energy created by sexual restraint "is the motive power which makes...
...SWINNERTON : AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY-Frank Swinnerton - Doubleday, Doran...
...that revolve around books and that are fought with the weapons of reviews, debates, lectures, gossip. Gilbert Keith Chesterton wrote of his literary life with all the suavity and aplomb of a generous victor. Poet Edgar Lee Masters described his with all the bitterness of admitted defeat. Novelist Frank Swinnerton described some staggering setbacks with the doggedly hopeful air of a championship contender who does not know he has already been knocked out several times...
...Swinnerton: An Autobiography describes in an uninspired and methodical fashion the career of an engraver's hard working son who became a publisher's reader, a best-selling novelist, a tireless commentator on English literary figures. Filling the first and best part of his book with accounts of his family's poverty after his father's death, of his first newspaper job at the age of 14, of his goading ambition, Swinnerton gives over most of the remainder to polite, discreet, tedious descriptions of his writing friends and acquaintances. Not in direct, slapdash conflict...
Members of the Orr School are the Philadelphia Inquirer's one-legged, cigar-chewing Hugh Hutton, whose Brain Truster is more ominously idiotic than Hearstling Swinnerton's, and the Los Angeles Times's young Bruce Russell, whose Franklin Roosevelt is the ugliest...