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...THOSE BARREN LEAVES?Aldous Huxley?Doran (.$2.50). *From Max Beerbohm's THE NEW AND THE OLD-William Heinemann, London ($6.00). ?Gutter Italian for Rolls-Royce...
Attention to mannerisms goes to extremes in "The Hobgoblins Defeated" by John Finley Jr. There is a savor of Max Beerbohm in the persiflage, but parts of the story, especially at the beginning, are so involved in construction as to be clumsy, and at the close I felt imposed upon, as if I had been listening too long to a young man enjoying his own cleverness in soliloquy at my fireside...
...literary and dramatic world is to be met within his pages. There is George Bernard Shaw, "the enfant terrible of London, always in the highest spirits and the strangest clothes, that might quite easily have been made at home, bilious in colour, and in pattern vegetarian like his diet"; Beerbohm Tree, who could never quite memorize his lines and, therefore, "with the most fertile invention posted prompters under tables, behind rocks or ancient oaks, so that the elusive word might be whispered to him as he moved in well disguised anguish from cache to cache,-a curious floating method...
THESE CHARMING PEOPLE-Michael Arlen-Doran ($2.50). A whimsical satire of ultra-fashionable British "society," to be put on the shelf along with Max Beerbohm's Zuleika Dobson. For instance, there is one sketch, about a gentleman who had been "a millionaire until the War broke out, when he at once became a multimillionaire. He was offered a knighthood for his services on the field of finance, but humbly refused the honor in a letter which, his newspapers said, should be a historic model for all letters refusing knighthoods. Later on he refused a baronetcy in the same simple...
...recover the United States. This scheme makes traitors of some of America's finest young men!" No action was taken by the Board. But some patriot somewhere, who does not know how incurably American the Rhodes scholars are considered at Oxford and who has not read Max Beerbohm's Zuleika Dobson, will probably "do something about the matter" very soon...