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SOONER OR LATER - Elinor Glyn - Macaulay...
...Victorian Age was a great believer in literary volcanoes. It preferred them extinct, but from the semi-active ones it got delightful tremors. To Victorians, Elinor Glyn might have seemed a volcano in full blast, but plain readers today will find it hard to believe that she was ever in a state of eruption. Famed as the popularizer of "It," she still enjoys a smoky reputation which is mostly smokescreen. Many a nonreader who smacks over the supposed lubricities of Three Weeks would find it tame and harmless stuff. Elinor Glyn was a scandalous sensation to 1907, but 1934 will...
...resembles TIME. A foreword to the first issue says "People want news rather than opinions. . . . We are against the barren doctrines of Socialism. Communism and class-war." In addition to news, Everyman contains a department of chatty miscellany called "This Cockeyed World," articles by Bertrand Russell, Andre Maurois, Elinor Glyn. Chief backers of Everyman are Publisher Sir John Evelyn Leslie Wrench, chairman and joint editor of the Spectator; and Philanthropist Sir Julien Cahn...
...RIPENING - Colette - Farrar & Rinehart. What Elinor Glyn used to be to thousands, Colette has increasingly become: purveyor to those who like mild aphrodisiacs in print.* But Colette, far above Authoress Glyn's tabloid class, wraps her erotic tablets in bathos-proof cellophane. Her uncanny feminine understanding, hearty physical sympathy for the internal workings of human nerves and glands, make her a writer who cannot avoid being labeled passionate but who never runs any danger of being cheap. Of the many Colette translations that have appeared in the U. S. in the last few years, The Ripening...
Britons read in a leading London weekly the above unsolicited testimonial from Novelist Elinor ("It") Glyn (Three Weeks), daughter of a Canadian, widow of an Englishman. Matter of fact last week there were sound reasons for the Empire to feel a little saucy. The British fiscal year 1931-32 had just closed and instead of recording disaster, Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain was able to announce that Britain's budget balanced with a surplus...