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MOON FLEET (247 pp.)-J. Meade Falkner-Little, Brown...
Stevenson died four years too soon. In 1898, a London publisher brought out just the book he was asking for. Moonfleet was its title, and it was the second novel of a tutor-turned-private-secretary named John Meade Falkner. British readers have been buying it ever since at a rate that has never fallen below 10,000 copies a year. Now, thanks to the belated good sense of a U.S. publisher, Americans can lay their hands on a U.S. edition of Moonfleet, only 53 years late...
When the movie version of William Falkner's recent novel, "Intruder in the Dust," arrived in Boston last week it brought with it some unusual praise and tributes, not the least of them being a New York Times editorial attesting to its excellence. It is an exceptional film, and an important one, but to this particular reviewer it falls considerably short of greatness...
Laurel was not too upset at the dark deed. It is a William Falkner kind of town, that could be the locale of any of Falkner's novels about the passions the South breeds on cotton planting and corn in the jug and native ideas of separating black from the white. But the local newspaper, the Leader-Call, ran a denunciatory editorial about the murder-the third lynching that month for Mississippi-and Governor Paul B. Johnson vowed punishment for the people who had led the mob and, in the words of the Federal jury, inflicted on Howard Wash...
Bill Spratling learned architecture at Auburn, taught it at Tulane. He is an artist of considerable merit, once did a book of caricatures and satirical biographies with William Falkner. In 1925 he began vacation wanderings in Mexico, fell in love with Taxco, settled down to write a notable little book on Mexican village and rural life (Little Mexico), which was introduced by his good friend Diego Rivera...