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GREY GRANITE-Lewis Grassic Gibbon -Doubleday, Doran...
Last February Death came to Archeologist James Leslie Mitchell, at 34. A literary dual personality, Archeologist Mitchell was also Novelist Lewis Grassic Gibbon. An authority on Mayan civilization (The Conquest of the Maya TIME, Feb. 4), he had written a Scottish-dialect trilogy (previously published: Sunset Song, Cloud Howe) and another big novel (to be published in the U. S. next season). Grey Granite, Author Gibbon's posthumous Parthian shaft, was the concluding volume of his trilogy...
...Author is a Jack of all professions -aviator, novelist, archeologist, biographer. His novels, written under the pseudonym of Lewis Grassic Gibbon, are in Scots dialect. His Earth Conquerors, a series of short biographies of famed explorers, was published by Simon & Schuster last autumn. The Conquest of the Maya has the official praise of Fellow of the Royal Society G. Elliot Smith, champion of the theory that all human culture was diffused from a common point in the Nile Valley...
CLOUD HOWE - Lewis Grassic Gibbon -Doubleday, Doran...
...distiller knows, all Scotch whiskey is blended. So is Scots dialect. A blend not only of pungent Scots dialect and plain English but of symphony and satire, low comedy and drama that sometimes aspires to the tragic, Cloud Howe is a malty, fairly intoxicating brew. Author ''Lewis Grassic Gibbon" (J. Leslie Mitchell, British historian and archeologist) has already written one book about his heroine (Sunset Song), will write one more, but Cloud Howe stands sturdily enough alone...
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