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...TORRENTS OF SPRING-Ernest Hemingway-Scribner's ($1.50). It seems that young Mr. Hemingway, who works like a nailer over his own writing, with extraordinarily promising results, was going about his business in Paris, lunching frequently with Scott Fitzgerald, Ford Madox Ford, John Dos Passos and even H. G. Wells, when a copy of Black Laughter by Sherwood Anderson reached him and caused him a bit of a pain. Perhaps other people were similarly affected by that earnest study of a dissatisfied newspaperman who abandoned his wife and wandered around until he got another man's wife, whose...
Brilliant No More Parades?Ford Madox Ford ($2.50). The War regarded as an agapemone...
...Author. Ford Madox (Hueffer) Ford, caricatured above, edits The Trans-Atlantic Review (Paris). He is 53. In 1917 he fought for Britain as a second lieutenant. Grandson of Painter Ford Madox Brown, "Fordie" was raised "to be a genius" by his philosopherfather, Dr. Franz Hueffer (long music critic of the London Times), by his grandfather and Aunt Lucy (sister-in-law of Poet Rosetti). Exposed from childhood to Fabianism, anarchism, aestheticism, etc., etc., he affects Toryism to annoy his relatives but looks "red" to the bourgeoisie. A Catholic, he sustains his family's reputation for heterodoxy by believing the Pope...
...MORE PARADES. Ford Madox Ford. A. & C. Boni...
...Christmas, 1867. The melancholy Dane, a likely stripling of 14, wears a velvet tunic between the hem of which and a pair of his mother's black stockings there yawns "a sad hiatus" when he sits. Friends of the family swell the audience, including three painters-Ford Madox Brown, Laurence Alma-Tadema, Dante Gabriel Rossetti. A lissom youth with auburn hair and a weak but beautiful countenance stretches on the rug, slightly disconcerting the actors by chanting the lines with them in a melodious undertone. He is called Algernon Swinburne...