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...friend in 1932. His Frederick Burr ("Happy Hooligan") Opper has retired; his Tom Powers and Nelson Harding have lost their touch. Hence Publisher Hearst's message of hate has been chiefly depicted by such second-string draughtsmen as King Features' James G. ("Little Jimmy") Swinnerton and the New York American's Dorman H. Smith. Both specialize in a moronic, capped-&-gowned Brain Truster. Cartoonist Swinnerton's is distinguished by jackass ears...
Literary guides are not elected either by popular vote or by a session of their peers for theirs is usually a self-appointed task. But few better-qualified men could have been chosen to write a literary history of his contemporaries than Critic-Editor Frank Swinnerton. His middle-of-the-road guidebook to the Georgians (Henry James to T. S. Eliot) will be a useful Baedeker for literary sightseers; it does not pretend to be the last word in a never-ending critical argument...
...itself." Katherine Mansfield, "a charming, pathetic figure," had a talent that was "not . . . robust . . . and it was overweighted by an impulsive admiration for the tales of Tchehov." To his much-maligned friend Hugh Walpole he gives the Swinnertonian accolade of "professional novelist." Bertrand Russell's cold logic irritates Swinnerton who says: "The suggestion that a man may know everything and understand nothing would be meaningless to him." To D. H. Lawrence, "a sort of latter-day Carlyle rather than a latter-day Blake," he doffs his hat: "Let there be no mistake, however: in a hundred years he will...
...pedantic than he looks but more than he pretends. A publisher's assistant since he was 18 (he was 19 years with Chatto & Windus), he retired to his Surrey cottage six years ago to give all his time to his own manuscripts. The late Enoch Arnold Bennett described Swinnerton: "He tells authors what they ought to do and ought not to do. He is marvelously and terribly particular and fussy about the format of the books issued by the firm. Questions as to fonts of type, width of margins, disposition of title-pages, tint and texture of bindings really...
...Swinnerton has written more than a dozen books. Whenever he finishes one he eats a hot plum pudding, regardless of the season...