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When 17-year-old Sebastian Barnack, adolescent poet-hero of Aldous Huxley's new novel, arrived in Florence, Italy, he found life in the British colony revolving in oldtime Huxleyan fashion...
Rascals and Homilies. Out of these characters, plus odds & ends of art comment and lengthy interpolations on issues of politics and society, Aldous Huxley has fashioned one of the most peculiar novels of his career. Two-thirds of Time Must Have a Stop concerns the period-and is written in the sparkling, scathing style-of his famed satirical Point Counter-Point and Antic Hay. The other third presents Author Huxley's latest religious beliefs...
...Thus Aldous Huxley introduces The Complete Etchings of Goya (Crown; $3.50), the first inclusive collection in book form. The new Goya reproduces, mostly in their original size, the 268 brutal, sometimes nether-worldly scenes which Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) etched in the latter years of his life when deafness and ill health had embittered him and he was capping his prodigious career as court painter with a furious moral summation of all he had seen. Samples: a mule, Goya's symbol of pride of lineage, fondling the genealogy of his mulish ancestors; a rapist...
...Aldous Huxley ranks these works with other final achievements of great artists-Beethoven's last quartets, the last poems of Yeats, the later paintings of El Greco. In the Goyas, Huxley sees a vision of "the unplumbed depths of original sin and original stupidity. . . . We are in a world of demons, witches and familiars . . . wholly disquieting inasmuch as it reveals the sort of thing that goes on in the squalid catacombs of the human mind...
...unusually low price. Along with noted poets (Eliot, Auden, Hardy, Yeats, etc.) are examples from the lesser known (Roy Campbell, James Agee, etc.). The prose writings are also various: Churchill on Dunkirk, stories by Henry James, Eudora Welty, James Thurber, sayings by Logan Pearsall Smith, essays by Aldous Huxley and E. M. Forster, letters by John Jay Chapman, etc. Author Maugham steps in from time to time with offhand comments...