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...FRANCES HOUGH St. Louis...
Lament for a City, by Henry Beetle Hough. Novelist Hough is a New England editor who skillfully explores the power and glory of small-town journalism...
Lament for a City, by Henry Beetle Hough. An unsentimental novel by an aging New England editor, demonstrating that the soul of a town is its newspaper, and that both can be sold down the Styx...
Lament for a City, by Henry Beetle Hough. An unsentimental novel by an aging New England editor, illustrating that the soul of a town is its newspaper and that both can be sold down the Styx...
Author-Editor Hough (Country Editor, Thoreau of Walden} has published the Vineyard Gazette on Martha's Vineyard since 1920. and knows both New England and newspapering well enough to talk of them with fondness and disgust. He writes of a great American theme that Marquand treated more broadly in The Late George Apley and Santayana with more subtlety and depth in The Last Puritan. But Hough gives it the unique flavor of printer's ink and an old editor's green-eyeshaded wisdom. His novel, written in good journeyman's prose, is an effective polemic...