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...Knut Hamsun Norwegian...
VICTORIA-Knut Hamsun-Knopf ($1.75). In his most recently translated novel Hamsun turns away from the epic of the land, such as Growth of the Soil, to a love idyl of lingering beauty and sadness. Victoria is in the pensive manner of Wanderers and Dreamers rather than in the more intense mood of Pan. It concerns the love of Victoria, the daughter of a wealthy, aristocratic landowner, for Johannes, the miller's son. There is not much " story" in the accepted sense, but rather a finespun mood of a sensitive girl whose injustice to her lover brings about tragedy...
Says, F. P. A.: It's a long time since Wanamaker's had "Tobogganing on Parnassus" in their sporting department, but only yesterday Brentano's had Knut Hamsun's "Hunger" in the basement, with the books on Dietetics...
...Essays. Dame School of Experience. Samuel Crofters Houghton Miffin. Letters. Familiar Letters of William James. Atlantic Monthly. Poetry. Heavens and Earth. Stephen Vincent Be net Henry Holt. Humor. Winsome Winnie. Steaphen Leacock. John Lane. History. Thought and Expression in the 16th Century. Henry Osborne Taylor MacMillan. Foreign. Hunger. Knut Hamsun. Alfred Knopf...