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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Elsie McColm Butler, daughter of Author Ellis Parker Butler (Pigs is Pigs) ; to one Harold Everett Waller; in Flushing...
Died. Joseph Ade, 65, brother of Author George Ade; at Brook...
ASPECTS OF THE NOVEL-Edward Morgan Forster-Harcourt, Brace (82.50). Author of A Passage to India, and other less famed but meritorious novels, E. M. Forster gave a series of lectures at Cambridge. In these lectures, now published, he traces, weighs, values, explains in original fashion, the elements of the novel. These elements: "The Story," "The People," "The Plot," "Fantasy," "Prophecy," "Pattern and Rhythm," he exhibits in many examples. For "Story," he quotes and examines Walter Scott, for "Plot," Andre Gide. The result is a book devoted to the highest form of criticism, inquiry. To those who read novels...
...discussed. Several points are settled, among them this: "We have constantly seen throughout this history . . . that the right to work is absolutely essential to the happiness of women. . . ." If the title is in a sense a slur, a compliment to femininity is the distinguished style and brilliant perception of Author John Langdon-Davies, previously noted for The New Age of Faith...
Doubtless, some there are who will miss the finally rounded periods, the pretty, artificial prose of more leisurely men. They will object to the monotony of the author's direct, simple sentences. True, there is nothing leisurely about Mr. Hemingway's style: he goes quickly to seize the barest vital essentials, presenting them in the most concise, dram- atic manner. This directness, this simplicity is necessary to the author's purpose, the presentation of reality. What man, we may ask, with more complicated literary machinery, has ever come so near that goal? Mr. Hemingway finds life a very crude...