Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leadership of the party through his long years of exile in Siberia, during the war, in Switzerland, and back to Russia, where he overthrew the provisional government of Kerensky and negotiated the now famous Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, is all narrated in a vivid and convincing manner. The author gives Lenin's political career in full, quoting dozens of records and letters and telling scores of illuminating anecdotes, and at the same time makes a very comprehensive study of his character...
Continental critics, however, in whom familiarity has bred the usual contempt, do not hesitate to strip these ancient institutions of the glamor which for the American at least obscures the defects. A French author, in a recent novel, accuses Oxford of all places of regarding the student "as a high school boy . . . who lives together with his fellows under a severe discipline that regulates even the hours of his going out." The student body is cynically divided into athletes and esthetes--of whom the latter are rare. No disillusionment could be more cruel if one is to retain...
RECOMPENSE-Robert Keable-Putnam ($2.00). This is the sequel to the same author's Simon Called Peter- which fact carries either its own invitation or warning. In it Mr. Keable has written "not necessarily what I would wish, but what appears to me, in some form or another, given the natures of Peter and Julie, inevitably and substantially would be." Amid shifting scenes- Africa, England, Spain-there is the same shifting conflict of will, purpose and desire as in the earlier book, the same religious controversialism, finishing with an unexpected and startling denouement...
...about him for protection. Disinterred corpses, supernatural beings, voices from the grave, razors dripping blood, coffins that won't stay underground-till the palsied reader dare not make a dash to negotiate that dark hall which leads to bed and safety. One is left with the conviction that Author Benson must still be sitting up somewhere. How did he ever dare go to bed after writing...
...abandoned monosyllabic titles," the author of Salt, Brass and Bread told me. "What," I then asked, "is to be the title of your next novel?" "Pig Iron," he replied-and the joke seemed to be on me. Charles Norris says that he can produce only one novel every two years; that he is 75,000 words towards the finish of this new study of the struggle between materialism and the spirit, and that means only half done. While in Italy, he worked every day, from early morning until late afternoon. Mr. Norris does not write with the flow...