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...care for her novels admit that as a critic she is first-rate. In her two Common Readers (collections of critical articles) she has practiced the detachment which Matthew Arnold preached. Her tolerance rarely deserts her except when she writes about literary climbers or timeservers, or about the Edwardian novelists who were her immediate predecessors. Her pet targets are Arnold Bennett, H. G. Wells, and John Galsworthy, whom she considers hopeless materialists, blind guides of their misled generation. Heaven, to one of Arnold Bennett's characters, she has said, would be "an eternity of bliss spent in the very...
PORTRAITS FROM LIFE-Ford Madox Ford-Houghton Mifflin ($3). Memoirs of eleven famed Edwardian authors on whom Author Ford, wearing his gently smiling expression, has been sharpening his anecdotal claws these many years. On H. G. Wells he uses his teeth as well, because, charges Ford, Wells is the man who has trained the world into a defeatist resignation to the horrors of the Machine...
...Australian, Mr. William H. Donald, was in every sense news. Many years ago the health of his wife made it best for her to return to Australia, and in China her increasingly polished rough-diamond husband, as the years rolled on, perhaps killed more ladies (in the complimentary, Edwardian sense of "lady-killing") than any other man in China's swift, hard, cheap, international Shanghai-Peiping set. On being invited some years ago to a party in Peking for an appetizing blonde who had arrived bearing an introduction which she said was signed by the wealthiest U. S. newspaper...
Arrayed as Admiral of the Fleet, the Sovereign last week held the first investiture of the new Edwardian reign at Buckingham Palace. Trooping gravely in came the distinguished Britons who figured in the last New Year's Honors List (TIME, Jan. 13), which beloved George V approved but did not live to sign. Of these the most famed is Feminist Christabel Pankhurst, who became at the hands of Edward VIII a sedately honored Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire...
...Whitelaw Reids had Edwardian tastes and they fitted their palace with the best of what they liked. They liked French tapestries, British, French and Dutch paintings of landscapes and fine-looking people, Persian rugs on the floors, Chinese pottery everywhere, and their favorite kind of chair was one covered with fine needlepoint. Last week, through four days of sightseeing and five of auctioning, Ophir Hall was full of socialites of Edwardian tastes, bidding against the usual agents...