Word: extroverts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Probably no man alive more guilelessly enjoys hearing himself talk on paper, or is better able to infect others with the pleasure, than Henry Louis Mencken. Happy Days, his account of his childhood, is a set of 20 essays. They are as rosily extrovert a record of a human being's first twelve years as ever transcended fatuousness. They are also (with occasional slackenings) museum pieces in the good old Mencken bravura at its brassiest. For all its mannerisms and unsubtleties, the Mencken vernacular is extraordinarily vigorous and fine U. S. prose...
...Branch Cabell-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Author Cabell's Hamlet is the purported original of Shakespeare's, as found in assorted Viking sagas. Like the Melancholy Dane, the Viking of Jutland poses as insane (only more so), murders his stepfather. But the Viking Hamlet was big, blond and extrovert. He did not see his father's ghost. He killed not only his stepfather, but all his stepfather's courtiers. He married a guileless English princess, abandoned her for a bloodthirsty, hawknosed hank of hair, thereby starting a sequence of murders which ends only when his Amazon...