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HASTY WEDDING-Mignon G. Eberhart -Doubleday, Doran ($2). The marriage of a Chicago heiress, coming after the murder of her ex-suitor, arouses the suspicions of Detective Jacob Wait. Good characterizations, a sustained atmosphere of horror; one of the best mysteries to come out of Author Eberhart's typewriter...
...defences of mediocre critics, but they are hopelessly trivial. These triumphs in the treble of Marya Zaturenska and the glibness of Robert Hillyer have evidently rung louder in the cars of the Pulitzer Committee in recent years than the works of such really outstanding American poets as Tate, Stevens, Eberhart and Ransom, all of whom are of immeasurably greater stature...
Several weeks ago, in your review of [TIME, March 21] Richard Eberhart's Reading the Spirit, you called this young, intelligent, deep-thinking poet a "ham." Everyone knows what a "ham" actor is, but it seems to me TIME has very vulgarly tried to coin a new word where there is no need...
...also called Poet Eberhart "wet behind the ears," which means that he is young and docs not think and plan sufficiently. This is impossible as Eberhart spent about seven years writing this book, therefore it must be thought and planned sufficiently...
TIME described Poet Eberhart's verse, not Poet Eberhart, as "wet behind the ears," imputed to him the natural gifts as well as the verbal excesses of "a genuine ham poet...