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...LASKI has steadfastly refused to accept the label of "Marxist," but it is doubtful if anyone, with the permissible exception of John Strachey, has yet written a more brilliant defense of the general Communist position. Though on matters of dialectic and detail, he differs noticeably from the orthodoxies of the Third International, his basic convictions are unmistakably Red. For this reason it is not too likely that "Democracy in Crisis" will replace the King James Version on the sitting-room table of the great American Boor. But those who agree with the conclusions the author has reached will feel...
Divorced. Evelyn John St. Loe Strachey, editor of the Socialist Review, son of the late Editor John St. Loe Strachey of the London Spectator; and Esther Murphy Strachey, daughter of the late Patrick Francis Murphy, head of Mark Cross Co. (leather goods), famed after-dinner speaker; in London...
...there is occasionally a suspicious naivete in the point of view. This may well be a defect of the stylist and not the historian. The writing of the book certainly is marred by a sort of false urbanity and lacks the flair for effortless insinuation such as Lytton Strachey displayed in treating of the same period. Despite these minor shortcomings, Mr. Wingfield-Stratford has probably written, the most comprehensive and enjoyable of all the recent books on the Victorians...
...recent efforts of Barnard Devote '20, instructor in English, on that same subject. It is not the point of view diametrically opposite to Mr. DeVote's; but in arguing in favor of modern biography in a loss extreme manner, it develops stronger brief for the maligned disciples of Strachey...
...Teheran, Persia and brought up in whatever foreign posts his family happened to be, he served his country in France, Spain, Turkey, Geneva. Persia, Germany. In 1929, unable to contain himself any longer, he resigned, joined forces with the "Bloomsbury Group" (John Maynard Keynes, Virginia Woolf, the late Lytton Strachey), took to ink. His first books were biographies of Tennyson, Byron, Swinburne, Verlaine. No mere filial pietist, he wrote a biography of his father that might stand as a monument to the "old" diplomacy...