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...NARROW CORNER-W. Somerset Maugham-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Though Publishers Doubleday, Doran blurb The Narrow Corner as if it were another Of Human Bondage, it is not. Returning to that indeterminate East of which he has often yarned before, Author Maugham spins a tale that in less sardonic hands would be a melodrama. Eye-witness of the story is Dr. Saunders, an Englishman who for some English reason is a pariah to his kind and has become an opium-smoking, suspiciously bachelor dweller among Chinese. An able eye specialist, he has a large practice. On a lucrative visit...
Publisher Alfred Knopf personally wrote the blurb for this light-minded satire?an honor he usually reserves for more serious, "worthy" works. Says he : "I have never published a first novel with such a feeling of absolute assurance in its success." Sexy Artist Arno (New Yorker) has drawn a faithful portrait of the heroine for the jacket. If you wish to be entertained and hope to be a little shocked, Nymph Errant should give you at least half your wish...
Granted to TIME of that date: the implication that the coast is superior; the East, excellent in track material. Not granted: the implication by omission that the Midwest is lacking in such talent (notwithstanding that tiny blurb about the fast-fading Eddie Tolan of Michigan...
...spite of the book's serious-minded intent, many of its entries will seem ludicrous to serious-minded Americans. Contributor Walter Prichard Eaton, described in the blurb prefacing his article on "The Scenery of the United States" as "an artist who paints with words," paints the following unforgettable scene: "From the western slopes of the Appalachian chain, the water drains to the Mississippi, and the great plains begin." Authoress Faith Baldwin, introduced by Author Achmed Abdullah, writes of "Love and Romance," estimates that Colyumist Dorothy Dix is the best public advisor on such tender themes. Contributor Edward L. Bernays, writing...
Contrary to the blurb on its jacket, contrary to its title, Chicago: A Portrait is in a sense also a history. But it is a history piece by piece, park by park, suburb by suburb, a jumpy historical travelog rather than a history of the city as a whole...