Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clique which included Glenway Wescott (author of The Grandmothers, The Apple of the Eye). In 1922 after winning the Fisk Prize for poetry, she published her verses, Under the Tree, but not until she published a year ago The Time of Man, a novel dealing with the country people of the south, did critics realize her as an important and highly individual expert novice in U. S. letters...
...other adventures, his wife who had left him 20 years before and Eve-Ann Ash, the girl he kisses on the last page. This is after Jasper Shrig, detective, has made sure that Fiddling Jackie, not Sir Marmaduke, murdered the disagreeable Squire Brandish; after Mrs. Marmaduke has died; after Author Farnol has once more made readers, of whom there will be many, pant with romantic excitement no less hard than did less hardy readers at The Brood Highway...
...COUNTERFEITERS-Andre Gide -Alfred A. Knopf ($3). A chief character is the novelist. He describes how he is planning his book; observing characters; taking notes. The book is a story of this planning, broken into bits of narrative, snatches of dialog, description, with constant quotations from the author's own diary in which he comments on the theory of the novel and the progress of his own. M. Gide is French; his book set in Paris, Switzerland, etc., etc. The book has no story in the accepted sense; is often described by the character-novelist as "a slice...
...women are not sufficient to release him. Finally, even this rebellious but unsturdy member of the rich and quiet tribe lies down reluctantly with the others, forced to derive such pleasure as he can from tasting the sticky sugar which has so effectively imprisoned him. It is well that Author Biddle, unlike his character, was able to achieve (inspired perhaps by the less rigidly conventional pattern of the Philadelphia Biddies) such a strong, well-designed and ambitious first novel...
...contain, have made the Countess of Oxford and Asquith famous. Her autobiography, published in 1922, was a mansion of closets, each inhabited by a dusty skeleton. The enormity of its sale was caused by a universal appetite for prying gossip; its result was an eagerness among publishers to coax Author Asquith toward further indiscretions of the printed word. Her present volume is full of good sense: "Most men and women Eat, Drink, and Sleep too much to keep their minds active or their, bodies healthy." If such iconoclasms on Carelessness, Taste, Fashion, Human Nature, Fame. Character, Politics, had been devised...