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...TIME, July 20, p. 55, col. 1, "Hatter's Castle," is the locution "independent...
...HATTER'S CASTLE-A. J. Cronin-Little, Brown...
Except that it soon mentions things unmentionable in the 1870's, Hatter's Castle starts off like a midmost Victorian novel. Before you reach its final (605th) page you will probably have ceased to notice its old-fashionedness, will have surrendered yourself to what is undoubtedly a Big Novel...
...Scotch town of Levenford, James Brodie, hatter, independent as a hog on ice, was considered an outstanding citizen, considered himself preeminent. That he was merely a hatter was a source of amusement to him; his business had brought him comfort but he thought it far beneath him. Brodie had built himself a house the town wondered at: too small for a castle, too grand for a small house. But no one laughed at Brodie to his face. A bull of a man. he had a bull's temper, a bull's disregard of neighbors' china-shops. Brutal...
...Author. Literary England is excited about Dr. Archibald Joseph Cronin. A Scottish medico of 34, his writing apprenticeship was served in concocting such unlikely sellers as A History of Aneurism, Dust-Inhalation by Haematite Miners, First Aid in Coal Mines. He took a vacation last summer, wrote Hatter's Castle in some three strenuous months. Gollancz, first English publisher to see the MS, accepted it with cheers. So did the Book Society of London. Though Dr. Cronin served in the surgical corps during the War, has traveled widely, has been down 500 coal mines in the course of research...