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...LAST POST?Ford Madox Ford? A. & C. Boni ($2.50). The supreme ability of Author Ford, as displayed in all of his previous works, is that of implying the presence of profundities, tragedies, actions which he is presumably unable to state. His prolixity makes a dark and impenetrable screen around his stories; the only suspense is that of waiting for something to be said, something to happen. In The Last Post, as in the three preceding volumes (Some Do Not, No More Parades, A Man Could Stand Up) of the series which it concludes, the story veers and sways, the characters...
...HEART AND MY FLESH-Elizabeth Madox Roberts-Viking ($2.50). The Story. Theodosia Bell "was delicately modeled with strong slender limbs, swift in a game, quick-witted at play. Her red-brown hair hung in a ong braid or was twined braided about her head. Her fingers were small and thin, bent strangely about a fiddle, were quick among the fiddle strings, weighted with music." She grew up in a Southern town, a town in which the strong rhythms of life were matched against a cold and dreadful rhythm of decay. There were three men who came to her house, listening...
This living ensemble of our country's literature presents every phase of modern American writing, and contains the latest and hitherto unpublished work of: Eugene O'Neill, John Dos Passos, Ernest Heminway, Robert Hillyer, William Ellery Leonard, Louis Untermeyer, Witter Bynner, Elizabeth Madox Roberts and others. This is the first year book of American literature and is highly recommended by Carl Van Doren, Elinor Wylie, Glenn Frank, Zona Gale and Hendrick Willem Van Loon...
...rings or crowsfeet; an aged German baron with a limp and many liaisons; a social-climbing physician whose heart is in interior decorating; a reportorial dandy; a gangster's girl and their "oozy" baby?are other marionettes in this smart book for which so eminent a critic as Ford Madox Ford has risked an "admirable . . . absolutely astonishing...
...Ford Madox Ford, the famous English author and friend of Joseph Conrad, will speak in the Living Room of the Union tonight at 7.30 o'clock, taking as his subject, "Thirty Years of Literary Life in Europe...