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...STRACHEY (Lytton) Elisabeth and Essex. Illustrated. Mint...
...STRACHEY (Lytton) Portraits in Miniature and Other Essays...
...Ariel" is his only biography which can be accused of being "novelized." If he has any faults, his chief one, as he himself admits, is probably politeness. Mr. Maurois has become too well acquainted with his subject to be other than grateful. That is why the aloof sarcasm of Strachey is largely absent. Mr. Maurois attempts at all times to understand. In "A Private Universe" he gives advice to young Frenchmen departing for England and America. "Give logic a rest while you are over there," he tells the first. "But enjoy the general spectacle." To the second: "Fashion within yourself...
WITH the recent deaths of Lytton Strachey and Gamaliel Bradford, Andre Maurois remains as the most prominent living biographer. (Apologies to Mr. Philip Guedalla who, fortunately or unfortunately, has not been accorded notice equal to Mr. Maurois). The members of this trio had much in common: they were the leaders in the art of "modern biography" and together they stood far aloof from all their cheap, novelizing imitators. Mr. Maurois began writing biography much later than either of his late contemporaries and he probably owes much to both of them. But he has a purpose and a method...
Died. Gamaliel Bradford, 68, biographer (Damaged Souls, Darwin, The Quick & The Dead); after lingering illness; in Wellesley Hills, Mass. Eighth in lineal descent from Governor William Bradford of Plymouth Colony, he termed himself a "psychographer." Critics called him "the U. S. Lytton Strachey," rated him less urbane and epigrammatic but more profound. An essayist and editorialist (for the Boston Herald), he said: "My biographical work is laborious and hard. . . . But plays and novels! It's easy and fun to write them. . . . That's what . . . I've done year after year without much encouragement." Biographer Bradford, though sickly...