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...SISTERS-Myron Brinig-Farrar & Rinehart...
...editorials, had resigned instead to free-lance in London. Died. Dr. Dorothy Scarborough, 58, author, associate professor of English at Columbia University where she conducted a popular course in novel and short-story writing; after brief illness; in Manhattan. Among her onetime pupils: Authors Tess Slesinger (The Unpossessed), Myron Brinig (This Man Is My Brother). Died. Rev. William Ashley ("Billy") Sunday, 72, famed evangelist; of heart disease; in Chicago (see p. 46). Died. Walter Lowrie Fisher, 73, Chicago lawyer and traction expert, Secretary of the Interior under President Taft; of coronary thrombosis; in Hubbard Woods, Ill. Died. Henry Fairfield Osborn...
...FLUTTER OF AN EYELID-Myron Brinig-Farrar & Rinehart...
...Tiffany Thayer were a great deal better writer, this is the kind of book he might write. Phantasmagoria laid in a wilder California than mortal eye has seen. The Flutter of an Eyelid promises more than it performs, but puts on a garishly entertaining show. Says Author Brinig, through one of his characters: "It occurs to me that a writer ought to have both vegetables and flowers in his books. He ought to have everything in his books. The old idea of being one thing at a time, a romanticist or a realist, hardly fits in with the times...
...there, but his efforts to prove "the torrent and ecstasy of life" are hopelessly inadequate. The love of John Donnelly, a raw Irish miner, for Zola, an alluring if somewhat incongruous prostitute, forms what plot and motivation there is. With a painstaking that is almost embarrassing. Mr. Brinig devotes himself to an exhaustive analysis of his characters, and finally they, under this pressure, disappear into a rarified atmosphere, incompatible with the gusto of his background. The hero has been on dowed with a sensitive and poetic nature that it patently ridiculous in view of his mentality...