Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ISLAND WITHIN- Ludwig Lewisohn-Harpers ($2.50). The author, a Jew, was evidently in a sweat of fervor when he wrote this novel. He cries out in his preface: "Then, in God's name, let us tell wiser, broader, deeper stories- stories with morals more significant and rich. . . . Let us recover, if possible, something of an epic note. To do that there is no need of high-flown words or violent actions. Only a constant sense of the streaming generations, of the processes of historic change, of the true character of man's magnificent and tragic adventure between earth...
...through the story, which is divided, epically enough, into nine books, the author is striving for the "epic note." He makes the wife of a poor Jewish teacher in Russia in 1840 cry out: "Let us cry woe! Why should a father say that of his only son?" Then the tale moves swiftly through generations down to Arthur Levy, intelligent psychiatrist, in contemporary U. S. Mr. Levy marries a Christian woman, has a child by her. But he is troubled about his race, hurt by the slurs of Nordics; so he finally leaves his family to go on a Jewish...
...identity of Author S. S. Van Dine has long been a mystery. One guess is that he is a famed architect living in Manhattan. Readers who like their murders raw have been annoyed by his ramblings into esthetics; but none can deny that his plots are incredibly good. His Greene Murder Case has an almost perfect culprit. His Canary Murder Case has an almost perfect climax-in a poker game...
Like all of Author Wylie's works, Mr. Hodge and Mr. Hazard exists entirely for its manner. Author Wylie is, it is true, writing again a history of the old battle waged by their alien companions upon those who are ill at ease in the world, sensitive, frightened and aloof. But what ever Author Wylie says, she says with flowers ; and often, the narrow white card, when it is finally discovered in the scented and elaborate bouquet of metaphors, has nothing written...
...Author, whose real name is at present Mrs. William Rose Benét, gained her literary reputation when she published, in 1921, a book of poems called Nets to Catch the Wind. After Black Armour, more poetry, she poured into a mold of prose the fluent and shining metal of her talent for metaphor. Jennifer Lorn was her first novel; The Orphan Angel and The Venetian Glass Nephew its successors. Author Wylie, her publishers announce with a show of pride, spent less than three months in writing her latest novel. This is an admission less damaging than it appears...