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...MUST-David Garnett-Knopf ($2.50). What shall befall the tall but beautiful, timid but intelligent daughter of a widowed vicar in a hamlet of the English fen country? Author T. F. Powys would surely bring her to harm through the primeval malice of some local lout. Sheila Kaye-Smith might supply her with a young gentleman and beset their true love with gossip and the father's disapproval. H. G. Wells would find her at least a temporary career; Arnold Bennett would describe her shoelaces and thoughts on dusting the stairs. Hugh Walpole might make her a sweet minor...
...where the grocer's son, an artist, turns out to be no lover at all but her means of meeting one, whom she marries and by whom all her perplexed misgivings about being lost in life are removed. There is nothing probable or improbable about the story. Author Garnett simply contrives to fill his pages with an imminence surpassing even the beauty of Anne's straw-colored hair and the coming of spring to an English countryside...
...Author. Son of Critic Edward Garnett and Constance Garnett, to whom the great Russians own their most perfect translations into English, and grandson of Author Richard Garnett (Twilight of the Gods), David Garnett nearly betrayed his literary birthright by studying science (gentle Botany). But in 1920, aged 27, he was claimed by books. He opened a bookshop and fell to writing. Lady into Fox appeared after two years. Lest he turn back to science, he was awarded a prize. His wife, who was Rachel Marshall, does woodcuts...
...Little, Brown ($1.50). Some 40 years ago, critics hurled brickbats and bouquets, hurled them hard, at this small book, whose pseudonymous author was then headmaster of the City of London School, the Rev. Edwin Abbott Abbott, M.A., D.D. Now the book is republished with a foreword by erudite William Garnett, in view of the detection of a fourth dimension by Dr. Einstein. It is a geometric romance for non-mathematicians; an extremely simple fable with amazing implications and a vein of social satire that remains ageless...
...Chase, of Brookline, Herbert Fields, of Huntington, W. Va, Lawrence Trevor Grimm, of Los Angeles, Cal., Foster Knight, of Dedham, Jack Burton Nason, of Erie, Pa., Henry Harrison Proctor, of Boston, Joseph Earle Stevens Jr., of Tuxedo Park, N. Y., Walter Sheldon, Tower Jr., of Maplewood, N. F., John Garnett Whitham Jr., Lawrence, George Leon Weil Jr., of New York City...