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...doorway until he was safely by. The Author is a niece of "Ian Hay" (Major John Hay Beith) who wrote the War best-seller The First Hundred Thousand. After graduating from Cambridge's Girton College and teaching in a girl's school in Kent for several years, Authoress Beith has been living with her parents in Derbyshire, writing and discarding novels. Her family knew she liked to read Galsworthy, play lacrosse and tennis, but they never suspected she was a writer; when they read about her prize-winning feat in the newspapers they were struck...
...reading it, many who also read the Harper Prize Novel (The Fault of Angels, TIME, Aug. 28) may wonder why Lamb in His Bosom did not get the prize, may recall rumors that at least one of the judges (Dorothy Canfield. Sinclair Lewis, Harry Hansen) voted in its favor. Authoress Miller may miss the prize-money but Lamb in His Bosom can get along without any such endorsement: a good book needs no prize. The Carvers were Georgia crackers, pre-Civil War era. By "civilized" or "modern" standards, they were poor whites-but not trash. Their simple life...
...fancy figment but a real live companion-secretary, Alice B. Toklas is a Californian (her father was a Pole) who has lived with Gertrude Stein for the last 26 years. Authoress Stein says she often urged Companion Toklas to write her autobiography, finally decided to do it for her. In the book's final sentences Gertrude Stein drops the thin disguise, says to Companion Toklas: "I am going to write it as simply as Defoe did the autobiography of Robinson Crusoe. And she has and this is it." In Robinson Crusoe Defoe does not appear, but in Alice...
...this obviously shrewd and salty old lady, whose sentences may seem rather primer-like but are just as lucid as a primer's, should have gathered such a lurid reputation as murderess of the King's English. Such readers should remember that in Alice B. Toklas Authoress Stein is on her best behavior. If they are sufficiently curious to look up some of her wilder work, this is the kind of thing they may find...
...improve with the years, but most writers, after they have passed middle age, do not. The transformation of generous talents into sere opinionatedness is a recurrent phenomenon each generation recognizes, but only in its predecessors. Authoress Gale, no ten-talent writer, still possesses the tenderness of her youth, but it has grown a little mushy, auntly sentimental. Practice makes pat and Authoress Gale knows better than ever how to put her gentle, everyday stories together. Some of them...