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...front cover)* Even the late, great Theodore Roosevelt was dragged last week into Britain's Imperial Conference tariff controversy (TIME, Oct. 13). Free traders dug out a letter posted to English Editor St. Loe Strachey by President Roosevelt...
...Royal Virgin. The strange affection which persisted between Queen Elizabeth and her favorite, Robert Devereux. Earl of Essex, has been subjected to speculation by innumerable historians and, more recently, by the imaginative Lytton Strachey. Theirs was a relation which would in all probability have taxed the analytic powers of a Shakespeare or a Freud. The latest ambitious analyst is Playwright Harry Wagstaff Gribble, one-time associate of Christopher Morley in Hoboken theatrical enterprises (TIME, March 25, 1929). Playwright Gribble has examined several old dramas on the theme, has evolved his own explanation of its mysteries...
Graves had great sympathy for conscientious objectors. Lytton Strachey, says Graves, was one, and when he was called for examination, chose to stand on his scruples rather than his obvious physical disability. When asked: "What would you do if you saw a German soldier trying to violate your sister?" he replied, "with an air of noble virtue: 'I would try to get between them...
Author Wiegler, German biographer of the fashionable(Lytton Strachey-Andre Maurois) school, gives, not annotated footnotes to historical figures, but dramatic glimpses of human beings...
...Significance. Ten months ago saw the publication of Elizabeth and Essex by Lytton Strachey (TIME, Dec. 31). Katherine Anthony's picture of Elizabeth is more complete, and she is naturally able to write as one woman of another. Perhaps it is this sex sympathy which has enabled her to untie many heretofore tightly tangled Elizabethan knots. Embracing the political implications of the virgin's reign - the development of England's insularity, the alienation of the continent-she fails however to suggest as strongly as did Strachey the lusty temper of the times, the era gorgeous with talent...