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Editorial content, compiled by Publicity Chief Charles Michelson, included a foreword by ex-National Chairman James A. Farley, a biography of Henry Wallace, essays on phases of the New Deal, the President's acceptance speech. Asked about the origin of The Book, which has burgeoned under many titles for almost 100 years, Editor Michelson snorted: "It's automatic, like the Jackson Day Dinner...
...geographical facts that Novelists Aldous Huxley and Christopher Isherwood emigrated to Hollywood, Poets Wystan Hugh Auden and Louis MacNeice to New York (TIME, Oct. 30). But this spring, a couple of portents appeared, one of them described as such by a writer well qualified to discern it. In a foreword to The Blaze of Noon, Novelist Elizabeth Bowen declared : "This novel, by knocking away devices, by moving beyond the known terms of reference, looks like-and I think is-the beginning of something new. Unlike most English novels, it is unprovincial: coming now, it may come a little in advance...
...stories are bulging with humor, the dialect is fast moving and expressive, and the tall tales are fantastic and original. It has been held by some reviewers that the Almanacs, with all their humor, have not the literary quality ascribed to them by Howard M. Jones in his foreword to the book. Although the "lyric exuberance" of these stories might be doubted, what does seem undeniably present in these anecdotes is an outstanding amount of imagination and originality in the language and the situations...
...themselves to their trade. Minus a working knowledge of the golden rules the highest gallantry is too often unavailing." So reads the preface of a soldier's handbook, Battle Training in Word and Picture (George Newnes Ltd.; 6d.), recently published in London with a War Office blessing and foreword by Viscount Gort, Chief of the British Field Forces...
...HANDS-Monica Dickens-Harper ($2.50). An engaging great granddaughter of Charles Dickens reports breezily on her adventures as a cook (a job she took on for adventure's sake). Her cook's-eye conclusion:"A kick in the Pants for allemployers." Novelist Compton Mackenzie contributes an appreciative foreword...