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BUGLES IN THE NIGHT-Barry Benefield-Century ($2). Remembering that his first novel, The Chicken-Wagon Family, was likened by the critics to Dickens, Barrie, etc., Mr. Benefield dangerously approaches cuteness in Bugles in the Night. He too visibly remembers to be whimsical, to introduce characters named Bullwinkle, Crackle, Wimpfheimer. Easley Wheatley, Confederate soldier, runs away to New York from the old soldiers' home and, for purposes of protection only, carries along tall and innocent Alice Kibbe, 17. Alice he finds in a bad house, where she by no means belonged. Vicissitudes carry them to live on a scow...
SHORT TURNS-Barry Benefield -Century ($2). Annals of the inarticulate...
SHORT TURNS-Barry Benefield- Century ($2). These 14 short and simple annals of the inarticulate have a uniform characteristic, that each climax shows a human being with all his forces gathered in unaccustomed intensity to perform what seems the finest possible act under inexorable circumstances. A house of harlots buries one of its number, masking the dead girl's true profession from her mother; the mother perceives, but plays out her role. An Arkansas stonecutter, cuckold, is reluctantly driven to revenge by public opinion; his joy is great when he finds that the couple he has strangled...
...Significance, People upon whom Barry Benefield laid strong hold last autumn with his little-heralded* novel, The Chicken-Wagon Family, will be glad for the introduction to this volume, written by that primate of short-story critics, Mr. Edward J. O'Brien. It is like hearing that your favorite choir soloist has been engaged by the Metropolitan Opera. Says Mr. O'Brien, who reads bales of fiction per annum in professional detachment: "I suppose that those who are dumb have never had their feelings and experience interpreted so clearly before as ... by Barry Benefield." He gives thanks that...
...Modest Barry Benefield, author, was then his publisher's publicity...