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FIGURES IN A LANDSCAPE-Paul Horgan -Harper...
Sound works of fiction centred in the Southwest are few & far between. The grandeur of that country, its translucent and heady atmosphere, have had a superficializing effect on many artists and writers. Of the few serious writers able to work in New Mexico with a steady mind, Paul Horgan is one. Author of the Harper Prize Novel, The Fault of Angels (1933), Horgan has held the job of librarian at New Mexico Military Institute since 1926. Prolific, uneven, liable to fits of preciosity, his writing is at its thoughtful best in Figures in a Landscape...
Another good story, "The Candy Colonel," deals with army adventures in the '80s. To his sources for these chapters Author Horgan pays just tribute: "How many novelists and draftsmen and scientists the Army contained in those days!" But if Horgan is adept at recreating action and atmosphere from records, he is no slouch at direct observation. If he can reconstruct the fortunes of a German family from one of the strange, castle-like old mansions to be found here & there in the Southwest, he can also-as he does in the best story of the book-write a penetrating...
...Previous winners: Margaret Wilson's The Able McLaughlins, Anne Parrish's The Perennial Bachelor, Glenway Wescott's The Grandmothers, Julian Green's The Dark Journey, Robert Raynold's Brothers in the West, Paul Horgan's The Fault of Angela, H. L. Davis' Honey in the Horn...
...such zip-past-the-window milestones as prize novels, it may seem only yesterday that Paul Morgan won a Harper $7,500 prize with his first published book. The Fault of Angels (TIME, Aug. 28, 1933), a lightly satirical story of the Rochester, N. Y. music colony. Actually Author Horgan has since then written three others. Last week his latest went zipping past the window. This time it was less like a milestone than a winged western sandwich with the lifegiving onion omitted...