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Promises made by most first novels are rash. But the promise of Katharine Hamill's Swamp Shadow has good collateral behind it. Her tale of poor whites on Mississippi's Gulf Coast is neither dreary case-history nor melodrama plastered together with notebook dialect, but an ably written, objectively presented story of some forgotten men & women...
...following the slimy trail of corruption, slips into a bog of cliches in his love scenes. DEATH IS A LITTLE MAN-Minnie Hite Moody-Julian Messner ($2.50). Depressing description of the private lives of some Georgia Negroes, written in an un-nerving combination of literate English and darky dialect. A CRIME-Georges Bernanos-Dutton ($2). Consisting largely of jerky conversation, liberally peppered with dots and dashes, this unconventional murder tale is likely to antagonize the mystery-addict, despite the compelling, almost hypnotic quality of the characters. Non-Fiction THE HERITAGE OF THE CATHEDRAL- Sartell Prentice-Morrow ($3.50). Offering the layman...
...kept lending him money so that he could write what and how he pleased. Till he was nearly 50, Yeats's writing never brought him in more than ?200 a year. Until she was 50 Lady Gregory never thought of writing herself; when she tried her hand at dialect plays she soon became the mainstay of the Abbey Theatre...
...Thesis will annoy not only loyal subjects of His Majesty but U. S. Anglophiles: that the American language, once a dialect of English, is now stronger than its mother tongue, so that English " promises to become, on some not too remote tomorrow, a kind of dialect of American...
...When two-thirds of the people who use a certain language decide to call it a freight-train instead of a goods-train they are 'right'; and the first is correct English and the second a dialect." Americanisms, which have been forcing their way into English since the early 19th Century, have lately "been entering at a truly dizzy pace." Two causes: i) British cinemaddicts absorb more U. S. talkies than their own. 2) "The influence of 125,000,000 people, practically all headed in one direction, is simply too great to be resisted by any minority, however...