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...contains the largest number of sonnets ever published under one cover. Records and superlatives of quantity could be applied to at endless length by anyone with a statistical turn of mind, and it is incontestably the major poetic and publishing tour de force of the year. But the reader should not confine his emotions to the sort which come from a first glimpse of the Empire State Building or the Queen Mary for in this titanic mass of reading matter there is a definite quality...
...intelligent wife and reader, Mildred Walker noticed that most novels about doctors were concerned with triumphs in emergencies; that in real life most doctors had plenty of long-drawn-out failures. In this novel, which she rewrote three times, she makes Dr. Norton fail in two pinches which squeeze him as well as his patients-he cannot cure his wife of multiple sclerosis, his sister-in-law of loving...
...heady mixture of fantasy and fact, legend and history, with other assorted literary liquors-poorly blended and served lukewarm, disguised as cambric tea. This potion the Book-of-the-Month Club has chosen for its New Year's wassail. The brew is not potent enough to make a reader pass out, but it may make some heads giddy...
...time, getting younger. This device is the excuse for numerous anachronisms: since Merlyn knows what will happen in the 20th Century, why not make some of it happen in the 13th? He does, to the delight of the Wart, to the confusion of Kay, Sir Ector and the reader...
Miss Lofts goes out of her way to handicap her fifth novel. She prefaces it with an essay on style: "Style of writing," she says, "should be something of which the reader is supremely unconscious; it should be clear and neutral, like the glass of a shop window. And because one offers a study of people long dead is no reason why that glass should be the knobbly 'bottle' kind which hasty judgment might deem more seemly." Under close examination Miss Lofts's glass proves to be fairly clear plate, not too marred by fingerprints...