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...announcement of the Pulitzer award for the best novel on American life to Sinclair Lewis' "Arrowsmith" follows the Pulitzer award tradition in its attitude toward the American novel...
...Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway" all seem to have their admirers. There has been another title added to the English version of Marcel Proust--"The Guermantes Way." As usual the translating is excellent, and the book is in many respects the most fascinating of this great series. In "Arrowsmith," Sinclair Lewis has produced his best but by no means his most popular novel. He seems to give promise of writing better and preaching reform less. "The Tale of Genji," translated from the twelfth century Japanese by Arthur Waley, tells with great charm and delicacy the story of a royal prince...
...since this specialized knowledge is possessed, to a greater or less degree, by thousands of his confreres, gentlemen who make no fanfaronade of what they know, any doctor who writes for a newspaper is, indubitably, "loud." Dr. Evans writes for 70 newspapers. His querulous and meticulous criticism of Dr. Arrowsmith is unsound on the following score...
Diptheria. Instead of operating, as Dr. Evans suggests, Dr. Arrowsmith might also have used an intubation tube and sucked out the membrane. What he did is part of his character development...
Suffocation. Dr. Evans forgets that the incident took place ten or twelve years ago. What Dr. Arrowsmith did was quite in accord with the therapy of his period. The carbonic oxygen treatment was not then known. Even now, few small town fire departments are equipped with the apparatus...