Word: braced
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...MALLETS?E. H. Young-Harcourt, Brace ($2). The phrase "an English novel" has come to have a peculiar conversational significance. It connotes a fiction with a background unmistakably English, usually rural; with thoroughly British characters who are fond of animals, especially horses. The length of the book is at least twice what it should be were not the fiction "an English novel...
...INGENIOUS HIDALGO! MIGUEL CERVANTES - Hans Ryner - Harcourt, Brace ($2.75). Ingenious also, Arthur Ryner has imagined the biography of Cervantes in the days of his age, when, as he finised Don Quixote and wrote Persiles y Sigismunda, he saw the dear sun waning and Death, be cause he laughed at it, "coming to him like a raillery." Author Ryner has well conjured the situations - Cervantes in Madrid, surrounded by poverty, influential enemies and with Death for a friend in need. Cervantes in Esquivias, draining the gay fountain of his wit, writing a happy and fantastic story as if thus to postpone...
...GLORIOUS ADVENTURE-Richard Halliburton-Bobbs-Merrill ($5). *TO THE LIGHTHOUSE-Virginia Woolf-Harcourt, Brace...
...invading batters will be chosen. Cutts work in the box this spring has been erratic, although his side arm delivery has generally proved baffling to opposing batsmen. Howard was recently converted into a pitcher and in his lone performance against Williams a fortnight ago, he allowed only a brace of hits...
...AMERICA COMES OF AGE - by Andre Siegfried - Harcourt Brace...