Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Author is Humorist Irvin Cobb's only daughter. Her looks are from her pretty mother's side. About as big as a minute?an exciting minute?she took to writing when other girls her age were seeing how their hair looked "up." The pleasant New York landscape (near Ossining) amid which she spent her 'teens is distinguished also by the estate of Publisher George A. Doran...
Lately she undertook the responsibilities of matrimony and motherhood. She wrote Falling Seeds in a deserted monastery outside of Florence (Italy), in an opposite wing of which, her husband, Frank Michler Chapman Jr., able Princeton ('23) baritone (son of the author of What Bird Is That? and many another ornithological classic), was exercising for grand opera...
...present she has much to say. She describes the diamond mines, the adventurers who first saw the glint of a hard fire under the dark continent, the blacks who sweat, fight and struggle to harvest the pebbles of these arid orchards. Author Millin knows about the golddiggers too, their labor unions, Johannesburg where the great companies have their offices and where, when the city is hushed at night, ftiere is still audible the pounding of battery stamps that crush the ore for gold...
...conquered the native blacks at the time of the Dutch Discovery in the 17th Century, are now the cheap labor class. They are the burden which the white man has been too weak to carry but not too weak to destroy. At the heart of the mat- ter Author Millin feels that: "The black man is not so different from, as he is inferior to, the white man." For him, she tacitly observes, there is no hope...
...Author lives in South Africa, at the centre of the scenes she depicts. She writes with truth and understanding?two qualities which have made her novels (God's Stepchildren, Mary Glenn) interesting, and which make this, a broader work, not only interesting but important...