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...real contemporary here myth." The similarity between Byron and Hemingway, says the author, lies in the fact that they were both post-war men, and that "in the heart of both lies a tragic sense of defeat, vitalized by a burning rebellion," Hemingway has shown his contemporaries the mirror of themselves a man too cynical for sophistication, returning to the elemental things, where all else has played him false...
...MIRROR or POOLS-Alfred Neumann-Knopf...
TIME'S prime function is to hold the mirror up to nature. TIME recognizes only one higher duty-to satisfy its subscribers...
...frequent question to Roman Catholic churchmen is: why so great a proportion of Catholics in prison populations? In last week's issue of The Commonweal, urbane Catholic weekly, was a reply by Father John P. McCaffrey, Roman Catholic chap lain at Sing Sing. Chief point: prison populations mirror the localities upon which they draw. Father McCaffrey demonstrates by a section in Massachusetts, as follows...
...HAUNTED MIRROR - Elizabeth Madox Roberts-Viking ($2.50). Of the South that William Faulkner writes about, it has been said that no one else has ever seen it. The same comment could be made on Authoress Roberts' Kentucky. Her Kentuckians, their ways of speaking and their goings-on, are as much a sublimation of actual Kentucky as the late John Millington Synge's Aran Islanders were of the Irish. This collection of seven short stories (of which only three have not before been published) will help fence in more securely her well-established claim to her Kentucky cloudland. Readers...