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This book, whose purpose was to start a new method of thinking so that eventually people might understand each other better, was revolutionary, obscure even to specialists. Ever since then Richards and his followers have tried to make themselves clearer. The more they write, the harder it is for laymen to understand them. Interpretation in Teaching is no plate glass window even for savants...
Readers of one masterpiece, The Education of Henry Adams, know how enigmatic he seems in his autobiography. But readers of his letters get a clearer picture of his wit, the range of his interests, the depths of his despondency. Eight years ago a 552-page collection of them carried his story up to 1892. Last week another collection of 672 pages carried it to his death...
...Sister Eileen, 26-year-old Ruth McKenney harks back to that happy period with the air of a mellow oldster. Originally published in The New Yorker, the 14 sketches in My Sister Eileen give a cloudy picture of Eileen, a clearer view of Ruth herself, a better account of girlish misadventures during elocution lessons, bird studies in a girls' camp, a correspondence with a French boy in a high-school class in French, the embarrassments of waiting on table in a Fred Harvey lunchroom, interviews for a college paper...
...after he had served in an ambulance unit and as a private in the World War. Readers of the book, which gave some remarkably detailed dirt on life in an internment camp, were aware that something new was loose in the literary world. What it was became only gradually clearer when Cummings published Tulips and Chimneys (1923) and six subsequent volumes of poems. With their peculiar typography, syntax, and use of words, these books struck most first-time readers as wilful puzzlers, made many distrust their own eyes and Poet Cummings...
Sullivan's biography does not bring to light any new material about Newton, and he draws freely on other biographers. But Sullivan was fascinated by the human being which harbored such a magnificent mind, and from the available material he tried to draw, with fair success, a clearer picture of the 17th Century's greatest scientist as a person...