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...Wyck Brooks brought to a close, in The Confident Years, the most comprehensive literary history of the U.S., and Edmund Wilson, in The Shores of Light, produced the most readable book of literary criticism. A model of balanced critical estimate in small compass was English Novelist Angus Wilson's Zola...
HEMLOCK AND AFTER (248 pp.)-Angus Wilson-Viking...
Modern English novelists, like Japanese farmers, often cultivate small patches of ground for maximum yields. Angus Wilson, 39, does most of his digging in mildewing sections of the British middle class. In The Wrong Set, a batch of 13 craftsmanlike stories, he unearthed a nest of hypocrites, perverts and bores. In his first novel. Hemlock and After, he lifts a rock from more human vermin...
...exchange of views was friendly, however, and everybody thought that the conference had been interesting, if inconclusive. Said Episcopal Bishop Angus Dun of Washington, D.C., "We have come not to prove each other wrong, but to establish our differences; not to win victories over each other, but to submit ourselves to the discipline of shared seeking." Said Sweden's Archbishop Yngve Brilioth, the conference's chairman and president: "The mere fact that we are here to clarify attitudes and learn each other's views at first hand will help spread the idea of common faith...
...Hamilton ("Monk") Hackney, of Cold Saturday Farm, near Baltimore, practiced law, served as chief judge of the Baltimore Juvenile Court, retired in 1943, and is now one of the most successful U.S. cattle breeders (Aberdeen-Angus). Hackney has a daughter and two sons, one son at Princeton ('53). He particularly remembers Stevenson's Hudson Super-Six roadster, which, to be kept in high gear, had to have someone sitting beside the driver to hold the gearshift. This need for a companion in his car, Hackney feels, may have helped Stevenson gain sixth place, in a field...