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...selection of typical incidents from 15 psychopathic case histories vividly presented in The Mask of Sanity (C. V. Mosby Co., St. Louis; $3) by Dr. Hervey Milton Cleckley, professor of neuropsychiatry at the University of Georgia School of Medicine. His case histories read like snatches of William Faulkner rewritten by a less talented hand...
Publishers often complain that the South writes more books than it buys. All over the U. S., static small-town life is the frustration and inspiration of bright young talents. But the South's small towns inspire the most feverish talents of all. Led by William Faulkner and Erskine Caldwell. Southerners write with brilliant intensity, but their subject matter runs to horror-sexual, psychological or economic...
...makes its tortures seem at least as valid as the dull suburban tragedies from Farrell's or Dreiser's Midwest, commonly called lifelike. Reflections in a Golden Eye is the Southern school at its most Gothic, but also at its best. It is as though William Faulkner saw to the bottom of matters which merely excite him, shed his stylistic faults, and wrote it all out with Tolstoyan lucidity...
...year in which established writers like Lewis, Mann, Gather, Millay, Huxley, Caldwell, Faulkner, Werfel, Farrell, O'Hara continued to pour out their hearts and more especially their words. It was the year in which Thomas Wolfe's last work was published. His book seemed less like the new start he had hoped it was than an effort to clear his desk and brain for that new start...
...ALEX H. FAULKNER New York Correspondent...