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Like Kipling's Tomlinson, turned back at Heaven's portals and Hell gate because he was "neither spirit nor spirk," John Middleton Murry floats in a half-world of his own. Most derided, most vilified man of letters in contemporary England, his respectable reputation as a critic has been overshadowed by his notoriety as a candid friend. His enemies cannot forgive him for having been the husband-of the late Katherine Mansfield, the intimate friend of the late D. H. Lawrence, and making literary capital out of both relationships. Much of his recent writing they have found unpleasantly...
That portrait of an irresponsible critic remained accurate throughout the Coolidge and Hoover regimes. Even as late as 1932 Senator Harrison was still being spurred to flights of irony by such items as a Government pamphlet which he called "The Love Life of a Bullfrog." But the portrait bears no recognizable likeness to the Pat Harrison...
...MacGinnis had his photograph taken in front of his commonplace Silver Kimono with his model, Jane Erwin, and Governor Hoffman. There were also four sentimental landscapes suitable for calendars, an unbelievably bad poster pumpkin, an indigestible moon in a green sky and some portraits. Bleated New Jersey Art Critic and Columbia University Art Instructor Raymond O'Neill: "This show will make New Jersey appear to be painting in a corner away from the march of art and time. To tell the truth, it's hard to get steamed up enough to attack these pictures. They are grand examples...
...latest subjective newsreel, Edmund Wilson's Travels in Two Democracies. At first sight merely a notebook of scattered impressions of things seen & heard, it has a cumulative effect less personal than Sheean & Co., more sharply focused than Mark Sullivan, more impressive than either. Ticketed as a literary critic, Edmund ("Bunny") Wilson a few years ago found his position too academic in a day "when accuracy of insight, when courage of judgment, are worth all the names in all the books," went out of his study to take a look for himself. His subjective-factual report covers three years...
...grade-school history texts; and that the Federalist papers were slick propaganda. THE METROPOLITAN OPERA, 1883-1935 -Irving Kolodin-Oxford ($3.75). A thorough, painstaking history of a great institution, with pungent sidelights on the Diamond Horseshoe, the various administrators and the outstanding singers. The author is a music critic for the New York...