Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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CUPS, WANDS AND SWORDS?Helen Simpson?Knopf ($2.50). The plot of this novel bears so exact a resemblance to the plot of Red Sky at Morning, most recent work of Author Margaret Kennedy, that, had the two books not been published almost simultaneously, there would have been an enormous hoot about plagiarism. These are the likenesses: both books are about mixed twins of dangerous heredity, who keep company with fashionable, questionable artists, who feel for each other a more than normally intense devotion; in both books the girl twin's marriage threatens this devotion, produces, in the Kennedy case...
...indicate how his ability and qualifications for his later position in life worked themselves out, giving a forecast of the line of his subsequent achievements. To overcome the difficulty of interpreting the early life of her hero in the light of his hypothetical fame as subsequently reached, the author hits upon the novel expedient of citing references from an imaginary biography of David Schuyler for her data. This has its drawbacks, inasmuch as David is represented as a young man in 1928 not to become prominent for some years to come. So the biography is thrown indefinitely into the future...
...little overdone, and being too cut and dried, they do not wear well. The style contributes to this end, for in her obvious desire to be forceful, Fannie Hurst is led into grotesqueries, of which one example should suffice, though it does not explain. When the author refers to the Thanksgiving turkey as a "Mucilaginous miscellany of stuffed gobbler" one feels slightly out of one's depth. Which is about the way one feels about the whole book...
...characteristic of the book, moreover, that may ideas are impressed on the perhaps forever, because the author invokes a lasting image for us by writing; for example: "Such a cell is an individual soldier of the army, having his proper place in the company of his fellows-." For Professor Hill is of those rare and fortunate men who having something worth while to say, can say it as well as it could be said...
...part of a Robert Louis Stevenson exhibit in the Widener Memorial Room, three woodcut plates designed by the author are shown, with several old Spanish coin, or "pieces of eight," and a first edition of "Treasure Island." Three original water color drawings by William Blake are also on display, with "the Book of Job," illustrated by Blake...