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...Reader Hoffman has caught TIME a glancing blow on the glabella...
...characteristic which will make this book popular among the reading public is the sincerity, wisdom, and quiet humor of the author. The people he talks about are described with the greatest reality, yet they frequently remind the reader of various rustic characters in fiction. But aside from the fictional element, the book contains a wealth of information on disorders of the body and their treatment. These are exact but not pedantically scholarly, so that the reader absorbs a great deal of medical information without realizing...
...SINCE SCIENCE IS ADVANCED ONLY BY THE SEEKING OF THE TRUTH THIS ERROR SEEMS GRIEVOUS TO ME. IT IS UNFAIR TO THE CO-AUTHORS IN THAT IT DOES NOT GIVE THEM DUE CREDIT AND PLACES ME IN A POSITION WHERE I MAY BE MISJUDGED. AS A TEN-YEAR TIME READER I FEEL CERTAIN THAT YOU WILL BE GLAD TO CORRECT THIS FALSE IMPRESSION...
...Frenchman had written The Forsyte Saga, that protracted story of family life might have been no shorter, but it is a safe bet that readers would have been well informed about the Forsytes' sexual life. In The Pasquier Chronicles Georges Duhamel has done for his temperamental, crockery-smashing Pasquiers what Galsworthy did for his stiff-lipped Forsytes- told their tedious story with too many words-but he has enlivened it with Gallic interludes of scandals, passions and continental amours, any one of which would have been a major blot on the Forsyte escutcheon. Otherwise a puffy, ill-proportioned novel...
Both books achieve one purpose: the reader, having finished them, emerges into a world that seems slightly more cockeyed than before. To name the winner in this scientific free-for-all would be like trying to decide who wins the early-morning arguments in which all the disputers are brilliant and all drunk...