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...COLOXEL'S DAUGHTER-Richard Aldington-Donbleday, Doran...
When a writer is suffering with sore head, either from inverted patriotism or from some more personal reason, he may write the kind of vindictive book that shocks the public into attention. Richard Aldington has done just that in The Colonel's Daughter. Banned by Smith's (big distributors) in England, banned by Ireland, but reviewed even by conservative London Punch with cold respect, The Colonel's Daughter should delight U. S. Anglophobes. for this British-written book about Britain is of the kind to make even Britishers wince...
...Author Aldington has done his job up brown: by the time he gets through with his characters there is not a single one you can stomach. Georgie is pathetic but repulsive; Purfleet is a cad; Geoffrey a fool; all the rest run the gamut of knavery and oafishness. In a supererogatory epilog Aldington underlines his tale: England is on the downgrade, nothing can help her. the War killed off the best, delivered the rest into the strangling clutch of "human weeds...
...comes Professor Hughes work,--an exhausting analysis of the origins and development of Imagism, and a group of essays on the original Imagists: H. D., Richard Aldington, F. S. Flint, John Gould Fletcher, D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Pound, and Amy Lowell. The book is a combination of history and criticism, therefore, but it is intended to be chiefly the former, as the author states in his preface...
Onetime British Soldier Aldington disagrees with the late great French Soldier Foch. Foch was usually wise enough to stick to his horizon-blue muttons, but once hazarded the opinion that the heroic soldier's reward was glory. In these 13 stories Aldington gives various examples of the soldier's reward. In the light of the title, all are bitterly satirical. Some of them...