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Britain's versatile Sir Archibald Percival Wavell, essayist as well as general, spoke these words in prewar 1939 while lecturing at Cambridge. It is doubtful if he even dreamed then that he would ever play the politician's part. Last week the opportunity came: he was named Viceroy of India. By putting a military man in the post, Britain broke a precedent standing since 1858. At 60, the scion of a family of generals, the trooper who lost an eye at Ypres, who studied desert tactics under Lord Allenby and applied them triumphantly in the Cyrenaica campaign...
...commemorate the centenary of the birth of Henry James, noted novelist and essayist, the Houghton Rare Book Libray has drawn from its own extensive collections and those of College alumni many of the author's scarce and valuable books and manuscripts, and prepared one of the most complete exhibitions ever shown of Jame's unpublished and printed material...
...inferiority to which he seemed to have been born. ... He was a liberal democrat in the sense that he claimed an unlimited right to think, criticize, discuss and suggest, and he was a socialist in his antagonism to personal, racial or national monopolization. . . . Wells was a copious and repetitive essayist upon public affairs and a still more copious writer of fiction. . . . The question whether he was to be considered a 'humorist' was discussed but never settled...
Look Homeward Angels. Close to the contemporary U.S. were two roughly similar books by two totally dissimilar writers - Novelist Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' best-selling Cross Creek ($2.50), Essayist E. B. White's sane and salty One Man's Meat ($2.50). Ludwig Bemelmans, a first-rate light storyteller with a surpassing light style, criticized human foibles with a sweet smile in I Love You, I Love You, I Love You ($2.50). But it remained for Humorist James Thurber, reporting on A.D. 1942!s general state of affairs in My World - And Welcome...
Virginia Woolf was all but born between the covers of a book, grew up and lived there until one day in 1941 when she stepped out to drown herself in the River Ouse. Her father's first wife was Thackeray's daughter. Her father was Essayist Leslie Stephen. Her husband was Essayist Leonard Woolf. Her brother-in-law was Art Critic Clive Bell. She educated herself in her father's vanguard-Victorian library, honed her fine wits against the most delicately abrasive minds in Edwardian and Georgian London. Her first novels, The Voyage Out and Night...