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...notable fact that three of the ablest living writers of English prose are women. Few are the men who can rival Willa Cather, Virginia Wolf, and Elizabeth Madox Roberts; their work possesses a calmness, a surety, a technical excellence which places them above the crowd and which has earned for them a certain claim to timelessness. Each succeeding volume from their pens is received as a permanent addition-to English fiction and not, as is the deserved fate of so many other novelists, as merely and annual product, to be read, discussed, and immediately forgotten...
...Miss Warner, who was responsible for "Lolly Willowes, or The Loving Huntsman," is technically one of the most interesting authors now writing. Like Virginia Woolf, she never wastes a word. Each sentence is placed deftly, accurately; each paragraph is an exquisitely tooled bit. And like another woman writer, Willa Cather, she possesses a refreshing air of calm and quiet. When one reads her it is with a sense that the book is a treat; that it is of a rare vintage, not often obtainable...
...author: "A certain committee last week announced winners of the O. Henry Memorial Prizes in short-story-writing for 1926. Wilbur Daniel Steele won $500 for 'Bubbles.' Dr. Blanche Colton Williams, the committee chairman, said that My Mortal Enemy, by Willa Cather had tied-for first prize but 'Bubbles' won because Miss Cather had published her tale as a short novel. Sherwood Anderson received second prize ($250) for 'Death in the Woods.' And to me they offered third prize ($100) for 'Between Worlds.' I refused to give permission for the reprinting of my story. The committee then fell back...
...annual crop of novels and stories is, as usual, large, and in it there are several of worth. "The Professor's House" by Willa Cather is one of the most excellent, and rather curiously, has been popular. Steven's 'Paul Bunyan" records the yarns of the great legendary character of the American lumber-camps. Theodore Dreiser has written his first novel in several years, "An American Tragedy," in two volumes. J. R. Dos Passos in "Manhattan Transfer," writing in a kaleidoscopic fashion that savours of James Joyce describes the life of New York--or a part of it. Christopher Morley...
...eternity smothers the world, this department will probably be still protesting peevishly that straight character study cannot be reflected in the camera lens. For it is the words that come out of a man's mouth that define him, more exactly than all his grimaces and gestures. Willa Cather's A Lost Lady was a character study if ever one was written. The book had no further plot nor purpose. It told of a lovely, intense young woman who married an old and impoverished aristocrat of a small Middle West town. It showed how utterly impossible became...