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Fairies, in the best and worst sense of the term, are the theme of Authoress Kay Boyle's far-from-unadorned tale. She handles her emotional subject with a cold greenish brilliance that is perhaps its own justification but that will make her book antipathetic to readers who like to warm their hands over something more human. In Gentlemen, I Address You Privately she writes, with what seems an almost deliberate avoidance of charm, about people who cannot be said to exist, who would hardly matter if they did. Authoress Boyle, nearly as far astray from normality as Faulkner...
Sued. Emanuel Haldeman-Julius, 44, author, agnostic, publisher of Little Blue Books (5?); by Marcet Haldeman Haldeman-Julius, authoress, actress; for separate maintenance and $125, 000, which she claims she has advanced to her husband since their marriage in 1916. Other charges: cruelty, desertion...
...Publisher Vincent Astor published fiction in Today, his houseorgan of the Roosevelt Administration, he could do worse than print at least the final part of Authoress Barnes's latest novel. It purports to be a study of the social changes which the War brought the U. S., and its peroration should certainly give aid & comfort to the New Dealers. "As I listened to that address [Roosevelt Inaugural] I was wishing I could live forever. Something new is beginning." Actually Within This Present is a pleasant, long-drawn-out story of a well-to-do and unremarkable Chicago family. Written...
...ASTONISHING ISLAND-Winifred Holtby-Macmillan ($3). Martian-visitor satire on England, by the able authoress of Mandoa, Mandoa...
...COLLECTED PROSE OF ELINOR WYLIE-Knopf ($3.50). The four novels and occasional prose of the late distinguished authoress, collected in one volume...