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...19th Century's haunting ghost with many a mocking exorcism; succeeding scholars are now finding a sympathetic task in recreating its soul. A sign of the times, this latest study of Poet-Painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his earnest men is a credit not only to its authoress' heart but to her scholarship and her mind. Poor Splendid Wings got the pre-eminence over 800 other mss., won for Authoress Winwar the Atlantic Monthly-Little, Brown $5,000 non-fiction prize...
...Life of Johnson, to Herman Melvill's Moby Dick, to Charles Montagu Doughty's Arabia Deserta. The Book of Talbot is a biography of a comparatively unknown man written by his widow. Gravely, not to say solemnly told, it is sometimes pompous but never inane. Authoress Clifton's fierce reverence for her subject does at times succeed in making her manner grand...
ANGEL IN THE HOUSE-Kathleen Norris -Double day, Doran ($2). A sure-to-be-popular novel with those who are addicted to Authoress Norris...
THREE LIVES-Gertrude Stein-Modern Library ($.95). Popular reprint of Authoress Stein's earliest, most influential novel...
...Author's local color is her native tint. Her maternal great-grandfather went to southern Georgia as a ''New Light'' preacher, her grandfather built with his own hands the isolated little country church where all her family are buried. Georgia-born (1903) and bred, Authoress Miller got her schooling at Waycross High School, where she took more than an academic interest in English and in her English teacher (W. D. Miller), whom she married two months after graduation. Now she lives in Baxley, Ga., where her husband teaches school. She finds time to write while...