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...Henry Bromfield Rogers Memorial Fellowship--R. L. Olson 1G, of Los Angeles, Calif...
...maxims of life, and stock for novelists. This book is least concerned with the first given maxim; it would be a greater work if it dealt more with it. It reveals the second maxim subtly and upon the third, it is founded. There is no person created by Mr. Bromfield that is not poignantly individual, and even peculiar. The more his characters assert themselves and the older they grow, the more they intensify themselves. You have never seen John, Julia, Lily or Irene Shane before, but you will not soon forget them. They are alluring because they are alive...
...Cynic Bromfield-Healthy Wiley first novels on the new season's lists offer an interesting comparison in The Green Bay Tree* by Louis Bromfield and The 'Education of Peter by John Wiley. They show admirably the tremendous difference in Which exists between the War and that just younger, and by generation I mean a "college generation." Both of these young men are sensitive- artistic, well-bred. They spring from more or less the same environment , and they are both, perhaps, Naturally, fond of over-sophistication. Yet, in a sense, these books are a hundred years apart. The Education...
...Bromfield went to the War via Cornell and Columbia. He served in the french Ambulance, then in the Army He returned to America) wrote Several novels, which he never Offered for publication, married into a Conservative New York family, works at present in a responsible post in a prominent publishing firm. Yet to talk with him means that you at once sense the restlessness, the uncertainty, the strained nerves of the War generation...
...GREEN BAY TREE - Louis Bromfield - Stokes ($2.00) to appear March 29. The Education of Peter-John Wiley-Stokes...