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PITY IS NOT ENOUGH - Josephine Herbst-Harcourt, Brace...
There are various ways of looking at the past: through rose-colored spectacles, through the wrong end of a telescope, or- by an imaginative effort of which few are capable-face to face. Josephine Herbst's method is neither bespectacled nor telescopic, nor is it a personal, Proustian total-recall. Pity Is Not Enough is a medley of autobiographies, a family album of actually speaking likenesses. To read her story of the post-Civil War U. S. is like being there in a painfully realistic sense. Without depending very much on local color (letters, newspaper paragraphs), Authoress Herbst...
Authoress Herbst almost never intrudes her own viewpoint into this carefully watched story; when she does, it is arresting: "Contrary to superstition, the big mass are and have been for some time past more concerned with a way down than...
...agitated left-wing critics have made much pother about the rise of U. S. "proletarian literature," few respectable examples have so far come to light. To the sparse shelf that holds John Dos Passes' unfinished trilogy (The 42nd Parallel, 1919) critics can now add the beginning of Josephine Herbst's. Her purpose is orthodox: to show the collapse of the "bourgeois" class. The second volume will bring her Trexler family up to the War; the third to 1933. Like Dos Passes, Authoress Herbst is not a member of the Communist Party, though her sympathies are even more rootedly...
...Francisco guests convened to witness the marriage of Martha Catching and Dr. Robert Max Herbst. After a long delay it was announced that the wedding was postponed, because Fred Herbst. best man and brother of the groom, and Ann Catching, maid of honor and sister of the bride, had eloped...