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...Doren, like Editor Louis Untermeyer, has made his literary name by purveying other men's wares. Friends call him a constructive critic; carpers, a popularizing salesman of U. S. letters. Not the first nor the best U. S. prose anthology, Modern American Prose is one of the biggest (939 pp.). Few readers will agree that all Editor Van Doren's examples deserve to be included in such a collection, or that every example is truthful, beautiful, alive, but nearly every-one will find some of his favorites. Arranged handily in chronological order, Modern American Prose begins with Gertrude Stein...
What the late great Tolstoy's War and Peace did for old Russia, And Quiet Flows the Don attempts for new. Not nearly as long (755 pp.) as Tolstoy's epic. Author Sholokhov's novel is big enough to house comfortably over 50 principal characters. More typical of the traditional Russian novel than the Sovietized product, And Quiet Flows the Don hymns no paean to the Five Year Plan. Its ponderously simple narrative follows the fortunes of the Don Cossacks from peace to war to revolution, leaves them in the midst of civil strife. Though...
EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION AND POLITICS SINCE 1815-Erik Achorn-Harcourt, Brace ($5). Big (879 pp.) history, "new style," of Europe from 1815 to 1933, with special emphasis on post-War Europe...
...Party. Consequently hard-shell Communists will disregard one-time-Communist Eastman's Artists in Uniform as the disgruntled diatribe of a known dissenter. A pamphleteer of gusty eloquence (both his parents were Congregational ministers), Author Eastman gives his tongue and lung free rein in this fat (261 pp.) pamphlet-philippic. His accusation: For eight years (1924-32) the Stalin dictatorship exercised such a stifling censorship over Russian authors that no independent creative writer now dares raise his voice in Russia. Eastman sees Russian letters now as "a mirthless desert waste inhabited by a few sincere fanatics and a horde...
...modestly minor interpreters of the modern U. S., Lewis Mumford has one of the most respectful followings. No Jeremiah, no hard-shell Marxian, with no patent axe to grind, he goes at the complex mass of modern civilization with all five senses. Technics and Civilization, scholarly, ambitious, big (495 pp.), does not attempt to be a Bible for any creed, but it may well prove to be a milestone in the circuitous study of the Machine...