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MEET YOURSELF AS You REALLY ARE-Prince Leopold Loewenstein &. William Gerhardi-Lippincott ($2). A Freudian parlor game, the ingenious patent of an amateur psychologist and a sometimes witty English novelist (Memoirs of a Polyglot, Resurrection...
RESURRECTION ? William Gerhardi ? Harcourt, Brace...
Says he, in a prefatory note: "The experience of which [Resurrection] treats is, incredible as it may seem, a true experience." Alert readers will note that Author Gerhardi does not specify what parts of his narrative are to be taken without salt, will realize that he is seldom averse to spoofing...
Plan of Resurrection is ingenious, Proustian-with a Gerhardi difference. Written in the undisguised first person (though the other characters have pseudonyms), it tells how a brief experience of roaming in his astral body set him buttonholing his acquaintances at a London ball, telling them all about...
...time dawn ends the ball, the book is practically finished: Gerhardi has resurrected his life, while London society, while the recollections of his travels, loves, adventures dance about him. Readers who find themselves puzzled by Author Gerhardi's wayward intelligence, unable to place him satisfactorily, will do well to take him as he comes, wrinkle no foreheads over the question of his "sincerity." Though his unrelieved company in the guise of human soul may be at times a little wearing, as a wide-eyed observer his comments are never dull. Confessing his inability to make the most of sightseeing...