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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although no one is certain of the exact date of their beginning, the Gardens were already highly developed in the nineties. There professor Gray did research work for Charles Darwin, sending the results across the ocean to the author, who used them in developing his theories. In gratitude Darwin forwarded the proofs of "Origin of the Species" to Gray long before the book went to press...
John Ciardi's "Middle Muddle" presents an interesting, tightly-written exposition of his own political beliefs. It is the only such exposition that I have seen where the writing has been cogent enough to carry the author's ideas to a reader with clarity and conviction, separating the frankly muddled liberals in the Progressive Party from its not-so-forthright adherents...
...fifth, written last year, is called The Hint of an Explanation and deals briefly with the same theological theme as The Heart of the Matter. Besides these, there is a fragment of a novel written in 1936 (he gave it up, wisely, to write Brighton Rock), in which the author intended to use the West African locale later picked as the scene of The Heart of the Matter...
...these six, four were written in 1936, apparently a crucial year for Novelist Greene's development. What gives them literary value is the clarity with which they confront the author's religious faith with the paradoxes and atrocities of reality, including a certain "drab empty forest ... where it is impossible to believe in any spiritual life, in anything outside the nature dying round...
...Author Hutchinson has stirred away so bravely that Elephant and Castle, his character-caravan of London between the wars, is currently being compared by blurb artists to the novels of Dickens, Trollope and Thackeray. He has cooked so many people into his plot (over 100 in all) that he has had to include an explanatory list of them. His dialogues range from the chirpings of Armorel's ultra-refined relations ("Cousin Freddie, don't you think it's awful for Mums, seeing the last little chick fluttering away from the nest?") to the Anglo-Genoese babblings...