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...extreme latitude which is already granted to the term 'novel' must be extended even further to include what Houghton Mifflin's blurb writer calls "A unique and beautiful novel. . ." No reader who finishes Mr. Harriss' delightful book will cavil at the adjectives 'unique and beautiful'; one must add, however, that it is not a novel in any of the several meanings which the word...
What is the reader to decide about Allegra and Byron, now that moralistic criticism is out of fashion? One is always at loss somehow in endeavoring to avoid becoming the Pharisee and declaring self-righteously, "There, but for the grace of God, go I." For the Romantics were good poets but very unlovely men, and Byron was the most unmanageable of the lot. Despite his years at Harrow and at Cambridge, Byron never quite learned what was cricket and what was not. If many of his acts had been committed by anyone other than a poet, that person would long...
...reader of TIME, a listener to "The March of Time" and a spectator of ''The March of Time" I have found your news quite reliable. I would like to see you vindicate yourself...
...Caesar's campaigns-a summary which leads Author Pratt to the surprising conclusion that Caesar "never became great as a soldier.'' He was not even a good soldier; his tactics were "infantile," his strategy "hackneyed and obvious"; he handled cavalry like an amateur. Having startled the reader into attention with this splash, Author Pratt then backs water, slowly at first. Caesar won his campaigns because he planned by campaigns, not by battles; he had phenomenal luck ("nobody could fight Caesar without making fatal mistakes"). And by the time he came to grips with Pompey for the mastery...
...Naomi knows, Karen's mother has to be told. Before the tangle can be unraveled, Max has killed himself. Karen goes abroad to have her baby, Naomi back to her house to be an old maid. The story comes back to the present again, and now the reader knows that the little boy is Karen's son, and it is Naomi's house where he is waiting for his mother. Karen has married the man to whom she was first engaged, and since the child she has had by him has died and she can never have...