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No one reading the drab little close-up of "real" life by someone signing himself "Enoch Arnold Bennett" could possibly see The Old Wives' Tale ahead. Max Beerbohm's A Defence of Cosmetics would seem to condemn its youthful author to remain a wishy-washy wordster forever. A...
Broadway & Old Bailey. Few British authors since the days of Charles Dickens and his disciple George Gissing have tried to do for London what numerous U.S. writers have done for New York. As a result, Dulcimer Street is likely to be an eye opener for U.S. readers. Apart from the...
Sandemose used to write in Danish, his native language. Then he wrote a potboiler whose success disgusted him so that he left Denmark, settled in Norway, took to writing in Norwegian. Last week his second book in his foster-tongue was published in the U. S. Cover-to-cover readers...
GISSING (George) Will Warburton. 1905. $3.50
Huysmans claimed that what man wanted was faith; Gissing believed in purity, and Lawrence in a supreme intimacy. "What Men Want", the other theatre offering, is a superb compendium on the whole question. Disguise it, as the producer attempts to do, with the facial expressions of the sophisticated and the...