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...Proustian total-recall. Pity Is Not Enough is a medley of autobiographies, a family album of actually speaking likenesses. To read her story of the post-Civil War U. S. is like being there in a painfully realistic sense. Without depending very much on local color (letters, newspaper paragraphs), Authoress Herbst's story establishes its eyewitness character by almost continuous "indirect discourse," shifting its overheard speakers as the scene shifts but never losing its Nineteenth-Century tone of voice. Pity Is Not Enough is so achingly true to life that some readers may find it too drab for comfort...
...Authoress Herbst almost never intrudes her own viewpoint into this carefully watched story; when she does, it is arresting: "Contrary to superstition, the big mass are and have been for some time past more concerned with a way down than...
...unfinished trilogy (The 42nd Parallel, 1919) critics can now add the beginning of Josephine Herbst's. Her purpose is orthodox: to show the collapse of the "bourgeois" class. The second volume will bring her Trexler family up to the War; the third to 1933. Like Dos Passes, Authoress Herbst is not a member of the Communist Party, though her sympathies are even more rootedly proletarian than his. Mixture of Pennsylvania Dutch and Iowa stock, plain in face and nature. Josephine Herbst has spent 38 restless years. After college (at the Universities of Iowa and California) she went abroad...
...styles in short stories are changing. Yesterday's vogue, "the story with the snapper at the end," says sharp-eyed Authoress Ferber, seems "strangely old-fashioned and unconvincing now." New styles call for front drive, less road clearance, a sharper-tilted wheel. These eight stories will all do 20 mi. to a gallon; two of them will go 75 at a pinch. Some of the upholstery: A day in the frantically hard-working life of a successful actress, far removed from the "glamour" her public imagines her surrounded with. Efficient Fraulein's day off from her opulent Parkavian...
...made him understand that he was not. When the Janowskis settled their squalling Polish brood on a neighboring farm, it was Jen's tolerance that kept the Shaw mind open until Stan Janowski proved his worth as a farmer. In spite of Jen's impregnable excellence Authoress Carroll makes her such an attractive character that finally even skeptical readers will agree with the Yankee Shaw family that if Jen wants to marry a Pole, that will be all right with them. The Author, like her heroine, has "never wished to live violently''; admits that her disposition...