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EARLY AUTUMN-Louis Bromfield - Stokes ($2). Ancestor-worship in New England, where "thoughts grow higher and fewer...
...kept on using quiet expletives, more out of decency, it seemed, than real surprise. Captain MacMillan, with the good ship Bowdoin safe in winter anchorage, had brought him down to show him civilization, and Abie Bromfield, "Eskimo" (whose parents were English) felt a certain responsibility to his host. They had talked together by arctic firesides and Captain MacMillan had told him of these big houses, and of sleds that ran around on wheels without any dogs, and of yellow stars made put of glass and stuck like icicles in every corner; the Captain's descriptions, indeed, had been enthusiastic...
...What did "Eskimo" Abie Bromfield say of Manhattan women...
...Lawrence Stallings on the N. Y. World), George Sterling (San Francisco), William Allen White, Heywood Broun, Allan Nevins. And there are many creative writers whose discussion of one another's work stands for much that is good in U. S. criticism-William McFee, Christopher Morley, Thomas Beer, Louis Bromfield, Elmer Davis, John Erskine, Dorothy Canfield...
...Louis Bromfield: "As great as anything produced in English during the past 25 years...