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JOSEPH AND HIS BROTHERS-Thomas Mann-Knopf...
...Thomas Mann's 59th birthday. No Jew, he had exiled himself from his native Germany with the coming of Hitler. His latest book was being published in the U. S. that day. These events served only to time a tribute to him which was born of years of worthy work in the best field of letters. At a testimonial dinner presided over by Pontifex Minimus Henry Seidel Canty, buttressed by such notables as Nicholas Murray Butler, Thomas W. Lamont, Owen D. Young, Mrs. Ogden Reid, Felix Warburg, William Allen White, such literary sidelights as Willa Gather, Sinclair Lewis; Christopher...
...street. unaware that they were missing a feast, might have pointed out more than one reason for the genteel hullabaloo. Thomas Mann is a Nobel Prizewinner (1929). This was his first visit to the U. S. Hitler's victims, if sufficiently presentable, are popular in Manhattan. Author Mann brings no topsy-turvy social message; even a banker is safe in his company. Though some of his books have been best-sellers in Germany, his finespun writing will never appeal to the U. S. masses. But the man-in-the-street, more than half right about the smokescreen, would have...
Descent into Hell is the subtitle of his Prelude. In 54 close-packed pages Author Mann justifies his caption, presents the prehistorical theory on which his narrative is founded. "Very deep is the well of the past. Should we not call it bottomless?" Not truth but mystery lies at the bottom of the well. Recorded history goes down only a little way. "Where then do they lie in time, the beginnings of human civilization? How old is it? . . . We have only to enquire, to conjure up a whole vista of time-coulisses opening out infinitely, as in mockery." But there...
...Science, which offers instead a "Lemurian world ... a scene wherein the tortured larva of the human being . . . endured the nightmare of fear and lust which made up his life, in desperate conflict with scaly mountains of flesh in the shape of flying lizards and giant newts." Says Author Mann: Science leads here into a blind alley; this was not the beginning. "We have sounded the well of time to its depths, and not yet reached our goal: the history of man is older than the material world which is the work of his will, older than life, which rests upon...