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MARIE ANTOINETTE-Stefan Zweig-Viking...
Apparently because 1933 is the 40th anniversary of Marie Antoinette's death, this is her second biography in twelve weeks. Katharine Anthony's life (TIME, Feb. 20) was only a vignette compared to Biographer Zweig's life-size portrait. Zweig is not interested in Marie because she was a queen who came to a bad end, but because she was "the average woman of yesterday, today, and tomorrow . . . and therefore (one might fancy) unsuited to become the heroine of a tragedy. . . . But tragedy arises no less when a momentous position, a crushing responsibility, is thrust upon...
...PETER ASHLEY-DuBose Heyward- Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). THE SHELTERED LIFE-Ellen Glasgow -Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). SONS - Pearl S. Ruck -John Day ($2.50). STATE FAIR - Phil Stong - Century ($2.50). THE STORE-T. S. Stribling-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). WANTON MALLY-Booth Tarkington- Doubleday, Doran ($2). YOUNG WOMAN OF 1914-Arnold Zweig -Viking...
...Author-Arnold Zweig is one of the postWar, German-Jewish writers (others: Lion Feuchtwanger, Emil Ludwig. Franz Werfel) who have made present-day German letters something for smart U. S. publishers to conjure with. Professorial-looking, no friend of war, he was not raised to be a soldier but a professor. Some five universities, years of study in philosophy, languages. French and English literature, graduated him to pick & shovel work in a Labor Corps. Like his hero Bertin he sweated his spectacles steamy in Macedonia, Serbia, northern France, spent 13 months at Verdun before he settled down on the Eastern...
...confused with Austrian Author Stefan Zweig (Conflicts, Amok, Joseph Fonché, Three Alastcrs...