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Ford got off to a good start in the literary world by being born into the midst of the pre-Raphaelite group. Né Hueffer, he carried his German name all through the War (he served as officer in the British Army), changed it to Ford in 1919. As a very young man he began to make the acquaintance of literary notables. Henry James he admired rather than liked. "He had great virility, energy, persistence, dignity and an astonishing keenness of observation. And upon the whole he was the most masterful man I have ever...
...must take care of me. . . You must never leave me. . . You don't know how sick at heart. . . You don't know how I long. . . We must try out. . . Even if it were only passing S. A. it might be ... oh, very beautiful. . . ." The Author- Ford Madox Hueffer changed his name to Ford in 1919, "for family reasons." Born in England (1873) of a German father, he loved Germany but during the War fought in the English army. With his good friend Joseph Conrad he collaborated on two novels: The Inheritors (1901), Romance (1903). After...
SOME OF THE ENGLISH. By Oliver Madox Hueffer. D. Appleton & Co. New York. 1930. Price...
...obituary estimate of Thomas Hardy; the first pages of Oswald Spengler's "Decline of the West": The last words of Anatole France; new verse by Amy Lowell, Carl Sandburg, e. e. ("lower case") cummings; contributions from George Saintsbury, Maxim Gorky, Thomas Mann, T. S. Eliot, Ford Madox Hueffer...
...fourth and final novel of this sequence, The Last Post, will be published in January. Mr. Ford is one of the last Tories, lives in the U. S. and Provence, feeling that because of the War England will not be normal until another generation has grown up. His name, Hueffer until 1919, was changed for family reasons to Ford...