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...second week in December, but the exact play has not yet been selected. It may be an American premiere of either "Richard of Bordeaux" by Gordon Daviot, or "Gallows Glorious" which is now running in London, and there is a slight possibility that "The World of Light" by Aldous Huxley be presented. The productions will be given at Brattle Hall and will be followed by a dance...
RETROSPECT-Aldous Huxley-Double-day, Doran ($2.50). Fourteen hundred pages of Author Huxley's reprinted prose & verse, including Brave New World, Crome Yellow, Leda...
Author Romains' method is reminiscent of John Dos Passos' (The 42nd, Parallel; 1919) and Aldous Huxley's (Point Counter Point), but he refuses to admit that they have influenced him: "I salute these experiments; I admire them on occasion. . . . But I salute them as younger comrades, and with some sense of priority." Though he has been actually working on Men of Good Will for only twelve years, he has been preparing for it since 1905. Of the 65-odd characters introduced in this first volume, few are related, many do not even meet. As each chapter carries...
TEXTS & PRETEXTS-Aldous Huxley- Harper...
...reference: the ideas are not necessarily their own, and no law says that they have to be. Many a note-jotting author collects phrases, verses and poems that strike his fancy. Usually not until Fame or Death has overtaken them do artists exhibit their sketchbooks or writers their notes. Aldous Huxley, reasonably far from Death, is not so far from Fame. On the strength of his previous work many a Huxley reader will buy this notebook ("an anthology with commentaries"), will find the comment keen, the choice of quotations illuminating. Note-Taker Huxley's apology for publication: "An anthology...