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...SENT FORTH A RAVEN-Elizabeth Madox Roberts- Viking...
Like her characters, Elizabeth Madox Roberts is not afraid of grandeur, and she approaches her stories with conscious dignity. And in her majestic entrances and exits she rarely catches her foot in the mat. But the grandness of her manner, which was increasingly impressive in The Time of Man and The Great Meadow, has now reached such a pitch that readers cannot hope to come near her without taking off their workaday shoes and donning reverential slippers. Many a reader will consider life too short for such sartorial efforts; but for those who do not, Author Roberts has some solemn...
PROVENCE-Ford Madox Ford-Lippincott ($3). Rambling observations on troubadours, garlic, bullfighters, courts of love, the British Museum, bouillabaisse, actresses losing their petticoats-by a rambler par excellence...
HENRY FOR HUGH-Ford Madox Ford -Lippincott ($2.50). Sequel to The Rash Act; Author Ford considers it "the best piece of work I have yet done." THE DEATH AND BIRTH OF DAVID MARKAND - Waldo Frank - Scribner ($2.75). The latest of Prophet Frank's novels of "mystical realism," this is less interesting as a novel than as prophecy- a symbolic tale of how a contemporary U. S. businessman cast off the old Republican Adam, found himself. REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST-Marcel Proust-Random House ($12.50). Proustians will want this four-volume edition of the late great Proust's magnum...
Although Miss Brody's style is as unadorned and matter-of-fact as the people it portrays, the story has its dramatic moments, and were it not for the fact that the author employs the time-shift with only half the ability of let us say Ford Madox Ford, which sweeps us from scene to scene and backward and forward, her novel would be comfortable to read...