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...THING OF BEAUTY (440 pp.)-A. J. Cronin-Little, Brown...
With this novel, Dr. A. J. Cronin proves himself the greatest living practitioner of the Victorian novel. The hero is that Mauve Decade martyr, the unconventional artist struggling hopelessly for recognition from a conventional world. Its "bohemian" artists and its fusty gentry are furnished forth with stock-company props and costumes dragged from literature's dustiest attic, and Physician Cronin uses every cliche of this oft-told tale with the almost touching innocence of new discovery, right down to the mustiest of them all-the notion that a man cannot possibly be a genuine genius unless he starves...
...heat seems to be off now. But it was pretty uncomfortable for a while, what with Cronin's half-empty on Saturday night and the Casablanca equally devoid of its usual group of sociables. The ironic thing about it all was that the crackdown had nothing to do with college excesses or even with bars. A fourteen year-old boy was found in very bad shape due to the effects of a quart of Scotch from a local package store. The Alcoholic Beverage Commission moved in, everywhere, with a vengeance...
...Cervantes said, "Don't look for any birds this year in last year's nest." He's nobody's bird in the hand. He takes his freedom seriously, and doesn't mind getting a little drunk. "One swallow doesn't make a Spring," he remarked last night in Cronin's. "I'm so stoned I feel like two birds...
Since the management is responsible for serving a minor even if he has a false ID, Cronin's is checking the description on selective service registration cards with the appearance of the bearer...