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...happens that Mr. Wells will be 60 next Tuesday. It happens that his character, William Clissold, enunciates a prodigious amount of Wellsian philosophy. But the "vulgar" reader and reviewer are asked to understand that the book is not Mr. Wells' autobiography, but William Clissold's. The latter is merely a "relative" of Mr. Wells, a mineralogist whose promoter-father committed suicide on the way to prison, leaving the mother free to remarry and the boys, William and Dickon Clissold, to make their own lives...
TIME'S many items of challenging interest must be making the urge to burst into print infectious. It would seem few of your readers escape. As a constant reader and original subscriber to your admirable magazine, I just read your article in the MISCELLANY column of TIME, Aug. 16, captioned, "Name-in-a-Million." It leads me to submit the following...
...Elizabeth Madox Roberts - Viking Press ($2.50). It is felt at once that this book was a long time in the writing; that, now it is here, it constitutes a distinguished contribution to the abiding literature of this continent. It must have grown, as it grows upon the reader, like a vine of bittersweet or wild grape covering a stone wall. It is similarly eloquent of Nature, similarly unobtrusive, hardy and humbly fair to behold. It is the story of a Kentucky hill child, Ellen Chesser, groping instinctively through a scrawny, vagabond adolescence, with no attention from her roaming, horse-swapping...
Cartoon. Cartoonist McCutcheon of the Chicago Tribune pondered well this atrocity, drew a cartoon in which an Arrow-collared, tortoise-spectacled, straw-hatted "American Newspaper Reader" was shown winnowing the chaff of rumor from a hopper full of "Reports of the Mexican Religious Controversy." Next day the Calles Administration categorically denied that any Catholic priests whatsoever have been executed or shot down since the inception of the religious crisis...
...Gold, Faber, etc. He, too, studies people, himself and others, from a dusky corner; a steady, penetrating eye of consciousness unobserved in its observation of innermost human processes. Obscurity necessarily results when, by artistic gesticulation, this eye-in-a-shadow reports what it beholds to a companion or reader. Yet Wassermann's art is great, and, amply rewards people of patience and perception. He teaches a lofty philosophy of spiritual purification by experience. The central story here is of a sensitive German boy, pure in heart, whose relations with a matured man of his own type, his schoolmaster...