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...that Mr. Boyd is ever actually serious. He is at once too sensitive and too self-assured to become earnest in public. His concern with men is not vicarious. It is the concern of a formalist who takes you among men to show you the shapes of their minds, their ideas, their words and how they use them, their manners and how men are revealed therein. Being vigorous and Irish, he walks close beside you, pointing here, there, with nervous, witty gusto. Being excessively sensitive and shy, he hides himself behind a mask of erudite satire whenever...
...sportive pomposity amuses Mr. Boyd enormously. Most of the time it amuses the reader. His greatest delight and accomplishment is punning in phrases, giving a clever twist to another's epigram, or setting, in the midst of an immaculate sentence, some rich gem of slang. Occasionally his erudition waxes into windy verbosity, but not for long. Soon there will come a forthright shaft of sarcasm, or a quotation, such as Yeats' remark about George Moore: "What a pity Moore never had a love affair with a lady-always with women of his own class...
...Significance. The most notable of the caricatures, Aesthete: Model 1924, first published in the maiden issue of The American Mercury, gave Mr. Boyd the intense satisfaction of stirring to obscene and frenzied anger a whole Greenwich Village nestful of half-baked literati whose baseless pretensions to significance it is Mr. Boyd's spirited but impersonal mission in life to deny. The Yeats, Moore and Stephens portraits, while of small dimensions, are of a purity which few contemporary critics could well equal. Add to these considerations the facts that Mr. Boyd is the thorough master of several languages, both dead...
...Author. Born in 1887, privately educated at his birthplace, Dublin, Ernest Boyd had no large part in the Irish literary renaissance but came well under its influence. He was on the editorial staff of the Irish Times for three years, married in 1913 (an able Frenchwoman) and entered the British Consular Service. After moving from Baltimore to Barcelona to Copenhagen, he returned to the U. S. in 1920, having vigorously continued his literary studies the while. Of late years, besides his omnivorous reading and a steady stream of magazine articles, book reviews and advice to Publisher Alfred A. Knopf...
...PORTRAITS, REAL AND IMAGINARY-Ernest Boyd-Doran. ($2.00). *Author of Brewster's Millions, published 20 years ago, one of the most popular novels of the period. In it Author McCutcheon employs a plot almost identical to that of Mr. Oppenheim...