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...BURIED TREASURE?Elizabeth Madox Roberts?Viking...
WHEN THE WICKED MAN . . .-Ford Madox Ford-Liveright ($2.50). When a gossiper is going well he is not necessarily wicked, is often entertaining, sometimes even slightly edifying. Ford Madox Ford's books are gossipy, mostly entertaining but occasionally like the vaporings of the club bore. He is a great one . . . for three dots. Notterdam and Kratch had been through thick & thin, up a deal and down hell together. They were now twin tycoons lording it in Manhattan. Kratch had many an iron in the fire; Notterdam's only one was the rod with which he ruled the great...
...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...
This is Author Spencer's first novel, yet it has been chosen by the Book-of-the-Month Club for April in preference to such books as Author Elizabeth Madox Roberts' The Great Meadow (TIME, March 3).* Book-of-the-Month selectors defend their choice by comparing Gallows' Orchard to the work of the late great Robert Louis Stevenson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Thomas Hardy...