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...portrait of a domestic autocrat, Mr. Nicholas makes grimly impressive reading. Thomas Hinde is not quite the "white hope" of English letters that Novelist Henry (Loving) Green calls him in a jacket blurb, but at 27, after brief careers as a sailor, private tutor and circus hand, Hinde has put together an expert novel. His storytelling is done in meticulously understated style, but beneath its bland surface, Mr. Nicholas is relentless in its exploration of a quiet, homey little English hell...
...feel like a fresh snort from the old jug could do worse than sample this Australian distillation. Wild Colonial Boys is written in standard Wild West prose; it begins banging almost from the start, and is still banging after more than 600 pages of close print. The blurb on the jacket says it "should be read by every Australian, for it casts a new light on our national heritage." For once, the b -----(for bloody) blurb is right...
...this posthumous collection of some forty of Matthiessen's best reviews, the 'soft drip' of the blurb writer has been replaced by the professional literary critic's persistent hammering at values. There is also enough 'gritty detail' to drive many an author to the wall on the merits...
...testy denial: "Despite all you may have heard to the contrary, I have never had a ride in a patrol wagon." From then on, most of the book is a series of crisp confessions which fascinated at least one early reader. The publishers eagerly snatched at a warm blurb from Harry S. Truman: "I haven't been able to put it down. Undoubtedly the most interesting book I've had in my hands since I have been President of the United States...
...administration than any Secretary of the Treasury in the history of the U.S. These two facts assure Snyder a place in history, but he keeps worrying about how it will all look to history-and to contemporaries. Last week Snyder's treasury issued a glowing, 29-page blurb entitled Report to Taxpayers. Subject: the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Salient point: Snyder admitted 174 BIR "separations" during fiscal 1952 (including 53 for taking bribes, 24 for embezzlement). Otherwise, he said, everything was fine & dandy...