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Kipling's scriptural utterance (that "East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet") is made to appear more pontifical than profound by Authoress Wain's House of Exile, an autobiographical record of how a U. S. woman became an adopted member of an ancient, aristocratic Chinese family. Readers of Authoress Waln's book will feel that Kipling's quotation should be amended: for "East" read "Boxers"; for "West," "Little Englanders...
...third, Painter Maurice Sterne. Born into Buffalo society, she has always had the money, friends and inclination to shift her sphere of influence where she would. As readers of her first book, Lorenzo in Taos, may remember, her influence has not always been appreciated; but that time, Authoress Luhan implies, Greek (D. H. Lawrence) met Greek (herself). Long at work on her Intimate Memories, she has now published the first volume, which tells all about her first 18 years...
Unlike Proust's, Authoress Luhan's diving memory fails to bring up pearls; but it is not for lack of trying, and she is sure they are there. Her natural sympathy with people, she says, "has caused me many inward conflicts, and it has always drawn people to me in the same degree that I flowed out to them and identified myself with them, and it has always made people want to kiss me, to manifest an actual nearness and union, finding it comforting and consolatory. It is the only genius I have ever...
From some references to her Memories in Lorenzo in Taos, readers might have supposed that Authoress Luhan's autobiographical purpose was to rip off the veils and drawers of Victorian hypocrisy. But very little is removed in this first...
...Authoress Scott likes a big canvas. In Migrations and The Wave, she filled a panoramic picture of the Civil War with hundreds of figures, a meticulously colorful background. A Calendar of Sin made No. 3 of her U. S. historical series. Eva Gay is not quite so big (only 799 pages), but its figures are few, its background so subdued that attention is glaringly focused on the three main characters. Many a wearied reader will not be attentive to the bitter...