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OSCAR WILDE DISCOVERS AMERICA- Lloyd Lewis and Henry Justin Smith- Harcourt, Brace ($4.50). In 1881 the inimitable musicomedies of Gilbert & Sullivan were all the rage on both sides of the Atlantic. Shrewd Producer D'Oyly Carte was planning to send the authorized version of his latest G. & S. operetta, Patience, on a U. S. tour. It was also his notion to send ahead, as unconscious pressagent, the notorious original of Patience's esthete hero, Oscar Wilde. Carte put the scheme to Oscar as a lecture tour, a mission to preach beauty to the barbarians. Oscar bit. Authors Lewis...
COLLECTED POEMS OF T. S. ELIOT-Harcourt, Brace...
...HOUSE IN VIENNA-Marianne Philips-Harcourt, Brace ($2). Sentimental report of a critical day in a run-down Viennese apartment house. Prying into the personal affairs of the tenants, Author Philips clucks sympathetically over their misfortunes, smiles tenderly over their blessings. The reader may be discouraged by the lumbering archness of the style, perhaps the fault of a too rigid translation from the Dutch...
MODERN AMERICAN POETRY; MODERN BRITISH POETRY - Louis Untermeyer - Harcourt, Brace ($3.50 each). Revised editions of two popular anthologies by a literary middleman who is still doing business at the old stand...
THEY SELDOM SPEAK-Leland Hall-Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Two generations of Maine gentlemen farmers; not so good a job as his best-selling Salah and His American...