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...department are no longer colonial to Britishers, with the possible exceptions of detective stories and letters-to-the-Times. But while a glaring U. S. dawn silhouets many a crude indigenous growth, England's politely setting sun bathes her literary garden in a relatively classic glow. English readers dislike and distrust such experimenters as James Joyce and David Herbert Lawrence. And many a U. S. reader, Tory if no longer colonial, shares the British dread of untrimmed edges, prefers the clipped formality of more traditional writers. For such tastes Authoresses Rosamond Lehmann, Margaret Kennedy and Victoria Sackville-West...
...concluding, I should like to question the reviewer's criticism of the author's style, which is perhaps one of the important functions of a critic. "Mr. Calverton writes with some case, but he uses certain words such as 'bourgeois' and 'middle-class' so often that the reader becomes weary and begins to suspect that his exaggerated 'class consciousness' is. . . the result of a personal frustration of some kind...
...author writes with some case, but he uses certain words, such as "bourgeois" and "middle class" so often that the reader becomes weary, and begins to suspect that his exaggerated "class consciousness," for that is what it is, is perhaps a bitterness, the result of a personal frustration of some kind...
...fairly prominent London friends of Reader Dreiman mend their talk. Surviving children of Their Britannic Majesties are the Prince of Wales (aged 38); the Duke of York (36); the Duke of Gloucester (32); Prince George (29) and the Princess Royal (35). The late Prince John, born to Her Majesty in 1905. was subject not to haemophilia but to epileptic fits, succumbed in 1919. Their Majesties had no seventh child...
...reputation as a satirical novelist (Potterism, Orphan Island, Staying With Relations) Rose Macaulay has fled all the way into the 17th Century, to a copiously documented historical romance of Cavalier England. Smacking more often of Aladdin's than the student's lamp. The Shadow Flies offers the reader a rich mouthful of a spicy age. Parson-Poet Robert Herrick's Devonshire parish (1640) is the first scene, with the parson cursing his parishioners by name from the pulpit, wining with his London friend Sir John Suckling, tutoring pretty young Julian Conybeare, the atheist doctor's daughter...