Word: fictioneering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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STARS ON THE SEA-F. van Wyck Mason-Lippincotf ($2.75). The season's most successful costume fiction and plenty of it, concerned with the fledgling glories of the U. S. fleet at Newport, Charleston and Santo Domingo in the brave days of '76. F. van Wyck Mason has the prettiest ear extant for racy Colonial speech; his sense of character is lively, though it is closer to The American Boy than to perfection; his yarns are rattling good, and if anyone wants to see where the romantic conception of an Indian fighter has got to in the last...
...refused to "reconsider herself" on the matter of sending munitions by rail into China, the Imperial Army would "undertake to wean Indo-China away from hostility to Japan." M. Arsene-Henry, who understood the meaning of that "wean," who also well appreciates the classical Japanese conceptions of fact and fiction, flatly denied that any arms were going from French Indo-China into China (although two-thirds of China's war supplies have gone that way since the fall of Nanning...
...sheer fierceness and talent this latest novel by Robert Neumann (Mammon, The Queen's Doctor, Zaharoff) has few competitors in recent fiction. Like Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath and Richard Wright's Native Son, it was written with passion called forth by human wrong. But in Neumann's case that wrong is more complex, less local, more profound: it is the story of the Jews of Europe, of whom Vienna-born Neumann is one. By the Waters of Babylon is perhaps his masterpiece, perhaps theirs...
isolationists have never faced, as MacCormac sees it, is that modern Canada makes U. S. neutrality a fiction. What is modern Canada? Not merely a source of wheat and man power to Britain, as it was in World War I, but strategically and industrially the Empire's second line of defense, potentially the keystone of the British Commonwealth of Nations. Facts: >Canada is a more logical shipping centre than the United Kingdom. About 50% of Britain's foreign trade is with countries that could be as well or better served, even in peacetime, from Canadian ports. London...
Thomas Hardy's novels of "Wessex'' are unquestionably the greatest 19th-Century English fiction dealing with folk characters and a rural setting. Such characters and such a setting in the U. S. have been the chosen material of the South's most gifted modern writers. The Southern Review itself was founded five years ago by writers who thought seriously about "Agrarianism," i.e., rehabilitation of the land, return to the life on it, respect for its literary possibilities - as a salvation for the South...