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...LETTERS OF D. H. LAWRENCE? With an Introduction by Aldous Huxley ?Viking...
Lawrence himself, says friendly Editor Aldous Huxley, cared nothing for even literary immortality. Though he was no journalist, he wrote out of an immediate need for what he felt should be an immediate audience. "It was characteristic of him that he hardly ever corrected or patched what he had written. ... If he was dissatisfied ... he rewrote." Consequently his letters read more naturally than most authors'. In this 893-page collection, from which letters to Mabel Dodge Luhan (Lorenzo in Taos) are notably absent, you may follow his eleven-year hegira over Europe, Australia, the U. S., trace the progress...
...What Aldous Huxley was to the generation still anxiously calling itself "young," Evelyn Waugh is becoming to the present. Less serious than Huxley but more religious (he has lately become a Roman Catholic), more scandalously funny but less satirical, he writes less like an insulated Englishman than like a French cosmopolite. Author Waugh recently traveled to Abyssinia, to Ras Tafari's coronation, wrote a disappointingly half-serious book about it (They Were Still Dancing, TIME, Dec. 14). In Black Mischief he returns to the subject of Negro majesty, does it up black & blue in true Waugh style...
...LETTERS OF D. H. LAWRENCE ? edited by Aldous Huxley ? Viking...
...Only contemporary writer whom Proust mentions is Aldous Huxley...