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...FOREST AND THE FORT-Hervey Allen- Farrar & Rinehart...
Broad in scope, ambitious in conception, William Hervey Allen's second big work since Anthony Adverse (TIME, June 26, 1933)* began last week its first public appearance. The Forest and the Fort is Volume I of a huge projected novel about American life between the years 1700 and 1840. It will be followed by at least five more volumes, of which two, Bedford Vil lage and City in the Dawn, are already written. The completed work will later be reissued in two volumes (Sylvania, Richfield Springs), finally assembled into a single massive tome called The Disinherited...
Fictional explorations into the historic past have been a striking feature of U.S. writing in the last decade. Said Hervey Allen last week: "It's probably time to come out and say, without being egotistic, that Anthony Adverse started the mode for the modern historical novel." Added he: "If you will look back over a long period of time, you will see that what the public likes most is a rich, large package. I have never streamlined a book to suit an audience...
Venturing into criticism the Advocate has printed an overly long article by Curtis Thomas on the novels of an obscure contemporary, Paul Hervey Fox. Attempting the almost impossible tour de force of describing an unknown in order to evaluate him, Thomas never even succeeds in bringing his Pygmalion to life, and Fox remains what he was, a little known novelist...
...floored interiors are strongly influenced by Japanese architecture and the work of Architect Frank Lloyd Wright. William Wilson Wurster, who gets much of his inspiration from rambling, old-style California ranch-house architecture, has been building houses in the San Francisco Bay area for the past 16 years. Hervey Parke Clark is a San Franciscan who took up architecture after a spell at Yale and with Manhattan's Hood & Fouilhoux. John Ekin Dinwiddie, a pupil of famed Finnish Architect Eliel Saarinen, has very unconventional ideas. He sometimes builds houses that are not units at all, but chains of completely...