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...sharp, vivid, merry, little incidents-characterizations of people, of places as clean and telling as if they were cut on a copper plate-a startling potpourri of wit, vigor, irony, tragedy, acute observation - self-portrait of Marichaud himself that ranks among the few convincing descriptions of genius in recent fiction-all these jostle each other with all the inconsecutiveness of life itself in the pages of The Grand Tour. Beluga caviar for the appreciative, a discriminating and active talent experimenting successfully in an unusual medium, not to be recommended to those whose trust is in Zane Grey...
...Land and Sea Tales", which will be published on October twenty-sixth by Doubleday, Page, and Company, is Rudyard Kipling's first new book of fiction in three years. All of the stories have hitherto been unpublished in book form, and eight have never appeared in print. The motive of most of these stories is courage, the courage to want something supremely and to pay the price for it, the courage to make quick decisions and to keep a cool head against long odds...
...Significance. An able, interesting historical novel of the development of middle America in its crucial years, well written, easy to read and packed with memories of a now as wholly departed as that of the Vikings. Natural, sincere fiction never doughy or pretentious? lacking only in that chancy quality of genius without which no novel, however able,, lives longer than its own time. But for all that a good, an entertaining, a very American book...
...Significance. This brief novel, told with perfect simplicity and skill, creates at least three characters as living as any in our fiction, and summons up a ghost-the ghost, the soul, of an entire period in our national life-when the West was the West of the railroad kings. It establishes Miss Cather firmly as among the very first of our novelists...
...following estimates of books much in the public eye were made after careful consideration of the trend of critical opinion: HOLIDAY - Waldo Frank - Boni ($2.00). The Negro problem again attacked in fiction, this time from an extremely modern and expressionistic angle. Virginia Hade, haughty Southern beauty, meets John Cloud, young, intelligent Negro, in the woods. They find each other sympathetic. Virginia's family and the other white people of the town misunderstand and set out to lynch Cloud. Virginia might have saved Cloud if she had tried, but she feels too indifferent-nothing seems to matter much any more...