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...GLASTONBURY ROMANCE-John Cowper Powys-Simon & Schuster ($3.75). In spite of the considerable success of his two-volume novel Wolf Solent, in spite of Critic H. L. Mencken's dictum that no two-volume novel ever failed, Author Powys confines the 1,174 pages of his latest fanciful vignette within the covers of a single book. Hard on the reader's wrist, its insistent author's perverse philosophizing is liable to be hard on many a reader's patience too. "Folks 'ud rayther brew their own broth theyselves then...
Like the cart before the horse, U. S. civilization seems to trundle awkwardly ahead of civilized Americans. Critic Brooks, who hopes and works for a different mode of progress, has shown in The Ordeal of Mark Twain and The Pilgrimage of Henry James, what happened to two horses who got in front of the cart. In his biography of Emerson he shows how a most inspirational civilizer hitched his own wagon, tried to hitch the U. S. juggernaut, to a transcendental star...
...knocker. His dress was one of conscious affectation, that of a dandy of the Restoration; he was eighteen years old, and his elbow was crooked around a thin manuscript. A kindly neighbor in his country home had secured for him an invitation to meet Saint-Beuve, the great literary critic, and read some poetry to him. Saint-Beuve's library was soon vibrating to the warm emotional tone with which a young man reads poetry, particularly when the poetry happens to be his own. The great critic listened with nostalgic enthusiasm to a succession of vibrant and polished stanzas...
Impartial Senate observers rate him thus: a respected, serious-minded legislator of average ability who realizes that polite co-operation and not rude independence is the secret of Senate progress; a tame, well-mannered critic of the existing order who is also a politician smart enough to give rural Minnesota the kind of representation it wants. A prolonged illness several years ago seriously curtailed his Senate activities. His term expires March...
Married. William Rose Benét, 46, poet, critic, onetime associate (now contributing) editor of the Saturday Review of Literature; and Lora Baxter, 26, actress (The Animal Kingdom) ; in Manhattan. Poet Benét's second wife was the late Poet Elinor Hoyt Wylie...