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Surprisingly likened to Dostoyevsky (by Andre Maurois, now No. 1 French popular writer and blurber) whose sympathy for his characters is notorious. U. S.French Author Julian Green writes of his human specimens with the coldness but without the spite of an Aldous Huxley. His uninspiring, rather clammy books are informative but disagreeable, arouse respect but rarely sympathy...
THEY WINTER ABROAD ? James Aston?Viking ($2.50). Clever stuff about English hotel-inmates in Italy, a la Aldous Huxley...
...LONDON OMNIBUS?Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). 1,400 pages of novels, stories, essays, plays, poems by A. P. Herbert (The Water Gypsies), Somerset Maugham (Rain), Virginia Woolf (Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown). Noel Coward (Private Lives), Aldous Huxley (The Cicadas & Other Poems}. 13 other famed Londoners, reprinted from original plates, August choice of the Literary Guild...
...INDIFFERENT ONES?Alberto Moravia ? Dutton ($2.50). Witty tragedy by a young Italian who has studied Aldous Huxley...
Maloney, the winner of the second prize, wrote on "Aldous Huxley and the Novel of Ideas", in which he pointed out the limitations of the novel of ideas, but illustrated its individual importance as the caprice of a fertile mind. Maloney lives in Newton Center and prepared at the Newton High School. He has contributed an article to the forthcoming June issue of the "Graduates' Magazine", entitled "Minority Report on the Untouchables...