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...Havelock Ellis-Isaac Goldberg ($4). Biography and criticism of "the most civilized Englishman"-fulsome but sound...
Life. A good place for a small boy with four younger sisters is away from home. The small boy of this book?shown solemnly erect in his Sunday clothes, clutching a prayer book, over the pompous legend,"Henry Havelock Ellis at the Age of Four"?circled the globe with his seafaring father before he was eight. The schools he later attended had no deep influence on his broadened young nature, though he became thoroughly grounded in French, German and Italian, and was not hindered in developing his taste for literature. At 15 he substituted Shelley for the Bible. Goethe...
...unnecessary and inappropriate?for Havelock Ellis is neither sensational nor combative?to suggest, as does his flamboyant biographer, that he is another Leonardo, a Professor, a Nietzschean superman, an Anglo-Saxon Tagore, a full-blooded Shaw, a Carlyle without dyspepsia, "a less unkempt Walt Whitman," "a less distracted Tolstoi" and "the complete anti-Kipling." It appears, simply, that if life is a dance, as Ellis has suggested, then he is one of the greatest, gravest dancing masters, a sane anarchist with a cosmic sense of humor...
Someone should present Preacher Straton with Havelock Ellis' Dance of Life, call to his attention that author's reference to God as Divine Ironist. D. C. HEATH...
...next books I looked up," says the editorial writer, "were certain psycho-analytical works by Havelock Ellis; the catalogue referred me to the Philosophical Library in Emerson Hall, where I found the books I was looking for were some of them listed, but were none of them in the places they were supposed...