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...collects phrases, verses and poems that strike his fancy. Usually not until Fame or Death has overtaken them do artists exhibit their sketchbooks or writers their notes. Aldous Huxley, reasonably far from Death, is not so far from Fame. On the strength of his previous work many a Huxley reader will buy this notebook ("an anthology with commentaries"), will find the comment keen, the choice of quotations illuminating. Note-Taker Huxley's apology for publication: "An anthology compiled in mid- slump? Fiddling, you protest indignantly, while Rome burns. But perhaps Rome would not now be burning if the Romans...
Miss Bentley has obviously undertaken a discouraging task. For if her book is to remain, properly speaking, a novel, her characters must secure, per se, the interest and affection of the reader. They must not, as in so many works of this type, become submerged either in her sympathy for the oppressed, or by the difficulty of finding something interesting, something new for each succeeding generation...
This is one of those novels of which Mr. Rupert Hughes would say, as he did in his introduction to "Babbitt," that the author has so portrayed his subject that the reader says: "There, but for the grace of God, go I." Of course this is utterly wrong, for no reader identifies himself with the hero-cad to that degree, nor is the hero, who is as mentally inert as either of these, ever mirrored from life; vile cads and pure heroes do not occur full-blown in life. The characterization strikes one as incomplete and unreal for that very...
...regular reader of TIME I have noted its unusual accuracy in reporting news. It is thus with hesitancy that I wish you to explain the statement in Jan. 2 issue of TIME, ". . . Lieut.-Col. Oscar von Hindenburg, whose brunette wife, about to bear a daughter...
Author Hergesheimer, somewhat socially-minded but far from panaceatic, tells his tales and lets it go at that. But the most casual reader will see that the suave surface of these stories covers a satirical intention that amounts at times to savage contempt...