Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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BOWEN'S COURT - Elizabeth Bowen -Knopf ( $3.50 ) . Elizabeth Bowen, excruciatingly sensitive novelist, who has stalked many a ghost in the subcellars and skeleton closets of the mind (The Death of the Heart; To the North), in this book turns from fiction to ponder upon the dead bones of her ancestors. Bowen' s Court is 1) the history of the rise & fall of the Anglo-Irish gentry, as exemplified in ten generations of Bowens; 2) the story of Novelist Bowen's passionate attachment to Bowen's Court, the square, empty, echoing 18th-Century family mansion which "like...
...COFFIN FOR THE CORPSE-Clayfon Rawson-Little, Brown & Co. ($2). A rich spiritualism devotee sees the ghost of a blackmailer he slugged and buried, and is later himself found slain in the locked and weaponless room of a Mamaroneck mansion. Merlini, an ex-magician with a vast fund of illusionistic lore and rare deductive skill, enters the case to help a much-involved reporter friend and remains to produce a subtle and unsuspected slayer. Superabundant-and engrossing- data about spirits, fakirs and magic slightly retard the movement of an otherwise excellent story...
Bustle-Ridden Rabelais. The myth of Mark Twain as a frustrated, bustle-ridden Rabelais (see Van Wyck Brooks's The Ordeal of Mark Twain) is nearly dead. DeVoto has done more than any other critic to kill that petticoat ghost, but in this book, with fresh evidence at hand, he gives it another kicking around. The author of the ribald 1601-itself a symptom of inhibition-needed neither his staid friend William Dean Howells nor his gentle wife Olivia to wash out his mouth with soap. Mark Twain, says DeVoto, "was almost lustfully hypersensitive to sex in print...
...Remarkable Andrew" is far from trite, but equally dull. Its rather weird plot concerns the plight of Andrew Long, a strait-laced city employee who is framed by crooked politicians. With the unseen help of the ghost of his namesake Andy Jackson (not to mention the spirits of Washington, Marshall, Jefferson, Franklin, etc.) Andrew Long finally manages to extricate himself. But for a while in the picture even his friends wonder a bit when they observe him talking to people they can't see. Meanwhile the audience is just as baffled by the superfluity of ghosts whose figures they...
...bought the property in September 1941. Before it could start building, it had to spend $480,000 for an 8¼-mile road to the nearest highway, $500,000 more for a 42-mile, 100,000-volt high-tension line. Meanwhile its engineers lived like explorers in tents and ghost-city shanties. Now the huge crushing plant, wet mill and dry mill are almost complete; operations will be full-scale by mid-July. Total cost: $9,000,000-every cent from National Lead's own till...