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Last week Lord David Cecil (author of The Stricken Deer, a life of Poet William Cowper) published the story of Lord Melbourne's first life. The Young Melbourne is perhaps the best, certainly the raciest and most absorbing biography since Lytton Strachey's Queen Victoria...
Byron, says Author Cecil, was no true romantic. He "had a robust Eighteenth-Century mocking kind of outlook." When she saw him, Caroline Lamb wrote: "Bad, mad and dangerous to know." A week later she wrote: "That beautiful pale face will be my fate." They went through a curious mock marriage, exchanged vows, signed a book as Byron and Caroline Byron. Byron's confidante in this and later affairs was William Lamb's mother, Lady Melbourne, whom he described as "the best friend I ever...
Last week Author De Forest's masterpiece was republished. Originally purchased for serialization in Harper's Monthly (Oct. 27, 1866) for $1,250, it was found too strong for the magazine, was brought out as a novel, fell flat despite Howells' enthusiastic review. Twenty-one years later De Forest rewrote it, tried unsuccessfully to persuade Harper to bring it out again. At last, prodded by renewed interest in the Civil War, the changed attitudes toward candor in fiction, the publishers have belatedly acknowledged that De Forest and Howells were right, that their predecessors and public opinion...
Unfulfilled ambition of the late, superserious Sir Edward Grey was to write a leader for the London Times Literary Supplement on the works of Pelham Grenville Wodehouse. This summer, bald, easygoing Author Wodehouse received an honorary D. Litt. from Oxford, drew plaudits for his style (TIME, July 10). Though many a lesser humorist has crept up behind the Wodehouse technique, tried to sprinkle salt on its tail, only the Old Master himself can really catch it. He does it by rewriting everything at least three times, concentrating and sharpening his effervescent prolixity. Thus revised, markedly improved since its serialization...
...Author. Born in Humphreysville (now Seymour), Conn, in 1826, John William De Forest dropped out of school at 13 after his father's death, wrote an authoritative history of Connecticut Indians at 25, spent two years in the Near East and Europe (where he translated Hawthorne into Italian) before he was 30, wrote two travel books and two reasonably successful novels. In 1856 he married Harriet Silliman Shepard and for the next few years divided his time between New Haven and Charleston, S. C. When Sumter was fired on he escaped from Charleston on the last ship going north...