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...always refrained. She said what she thought would help: when she really wanted to talk she talked to herself or to Bella, the maid, who wanted to get married but was so set on it she scared all the men away. By some talent worth any amount of cleverness, Authoress Whipple has made old Heroine Louisa the kind of human being that human beings instinctively, almost unanimously admire. " 'Mmmm,' said Charles. 'The French have an expression "Bon comme le pain." When I heard it, I thought of you. You're good, like bread...
...sick when they were sick, so that was no use." She went into an office instead, married her boss, who is now Director of Education for Nottingham. Greenbanks, which was the September choice of the English Book Society, is her third novel (first two: Young Anne, High Wages). Says Authoress Whipple: "I begin each novel gaily, then I get drawn in, it becomes an extremely serious business, it looms up and covers my life. I live like a hermit during this time. I weep over the sad parts. Chekhov says this is a bad thing...
...HAUNTED MIRROR - Elizabeth Madox Roberts-Viking ($2.50). Of the South that William Faulkner writes about, it has been said that no one else has ever seen it. The same comment could be made on Authoress Roberts' Kentucky. Her Kentuckians, their ways of speaking and their goings-on, are as much a sublimation of actual Kentucky as the late John Millington Synge's Aran Islanders were of the Irish. This collection of seven short stories (of which only three have not before been published) will help fence in more securely her well-established claim to her Kentucky cloudland. Readers...
...Wisconsin's much-touted Glenway Wescott at the University of Chicago, after taking a Ph.B. there she went to Manhattan, worked at writing. Critics fell over themselves to praise her first novel, The Time of Man, have continued to bow gravely in her direction. Unmarried, calm, grave, handsome, Authoress Roberts, 46, lives at Perryville, Ky., plans to write many another grave, calm, handsome Kentucky tale. Other books: My Heart & My Flesh, Jingling in the Wind, The Great Meadow, Under the Tree (verse...
...Second Common Reader, a sequel to her first collection of critical essays, will appeal more to library-haunters than to débutantes, though anybody who likes good writing might enjoy them. In 26 brief, graceful, revealing essays Authoress Woolf conducts you on a tour of the minor masterpieces of English literature and their makers-from the great late Elizabethans to the late great Thomas Hardy. In her concluding paper ("How Should One Read a Book?") she drops a cogent hint to readers of whatever kind: "Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction...