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...Significance. Brilliant Gilbert Frankau, the author, intended, it would seem, to write a novel on a grand scale of deep British significance. Modern English landscape, modern London streets, horse-racing, prizefighting, tea parties, labor strikes, auctions, motoring?the story ventures thrillingly up and down the land. Perhaps most thrilling of all is the politics. No mean orator himself, Mr. Frankau introduces a fascinating Jewish playwright to wax eloquently Tory. Yet, in spite of all this, the author seems to have become so absorbed by John Masterson and his unfortunate bride that as the story proceeds he forgets sociology...
...Author. Gilbert Frankau conducts a political column in a London paper of two million circulation, the Sunday Pictorial. He is "one of the best ten after-dinner speakers in England." But he is primarily an experienced novelist of great technical skill and equally great popularity. Born 42 years ago, he was educated at Eton and later in the trenches. His wife is Aimee, daughter of the late Robert de Burgh...
...Century Co. received recently a cable from the English publisher of Gilbert Frankau's latest novel, "Gerald Cranston's Lady" (published here on Febbruary 20), announcing that 40,000 copies had been sold--this number establishing a record average of over a thousand copies a day. Mr. Frankau is said to move up, by what can only be described as an outburst of popular favor, to the very top of the small list of a half-dozen writers of best-sellers in Great Britain...
...Gilbert Frankau who, in writhing "Peter Lameson" sprang into the forefornt of British novelists of the war period, has rip his fortune again in "Seeds of enchantment" a move of Indo-China. The set to Frank Danby. Mr. rankau has had a unusual variety of experience, ranging from presidency of a large corporation in England to travel in most of strange corners of the world. He has been hailed by Rudyard killing as the coming British novelist...