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Born. To Charlotte Ariel Gibson, 23, Tappan (N. Y.) socialite; and Sidney Herbert Homewood, 24, riding master, her "seducer under promise of marriage" according to a New City jury & judge who last fortnight convicted and sentenced him to $500 fine and 18 mo. to three years in Sing Sing (TIME, Dec. 19); a girl; in Tappan...
Seventy-year-old Walter Damrosch, whom a New York Times editorial called "Ariel" fortnight ago when he began again to waft and explain safe & sane music over the air to 6,000,000 children, fumed: "To force these [Stokowski's] experiments on helpless children is criminal. Should cubism have been used to preach the glories of painting to our young people...
...inextricably bound up with his purpose. He immerses himself in the character of his hero. He studies his own reactions before describing those of his subject. Often they are his own feelings, as in fiction and he writes like a novelist merely because he still is a novelist. But "Ariel" is his only biography which can be accused of being "novelized." If he has any faults, his chief one, as he himself admits, is probably politeness. Mr. Maurois has become too well acquainted with his subject to be other than grateful. That is why the aloof sarcasm of Strachey...
...poets to turn his footsteps in imagination to the stones of Venice. After him a long procession follows, Wordsworth, Shelley, Byron, Browning. One may almost say that the best of the English poets are those who loved Venice best. The delight of Shelley in it was that of Ariel for his island, and Byron's love was not one but several. For those who can go and see, the record of their attachment is alive in Venice today. For those who cannot, Mr. Hersey will lecture on "Venice and the English Poets," illustrated by colored slides. In Emerson...
...with any kind of unity and beauty. . . . Life is complicated. It is not simple enough." Echoing critics might apply the same criticism to Maurois' Lyautey: might add that Maurois has told much of Lyautey's achievements, little of the simple facts of his life. Other (translated) books: Ariel: The Life of Shelley, Byron, The Life of Disraeli, Aspects of Biography, Voyage to the Island of the Articoles, The Weigher of Souls (TIME...