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...most ambitious tour de force so far, Testament is Author Hutchinson's try at assimilating Russia: a Russian novel, with an all-Russian cast of characters, covering the last years of the War and the first years of the Revolution. In its length (693 pages), its crowded, turbulent background, its hero-intellectual (a Christ-like count who opposes both Tsarism and the Revolution), Testament is clearly patterned after the novels of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky...
...hurried readers Author Hutchinson will appear to have met these great Russians on their own ground. He gives a remarkably sympathetic characterization of Russian intellectuals and professionals; he writes exciting, if confused, narrative; even achieves some of the massive tediouness of the Russian novelists. But where the Russians succeeded best-in portraying the Russian peasantry who shaped the character of the Revolution-Author Hutchinson fails: the brilliant Russian surface of Testament cracks open to reveal dim, confused sketches of the real thing, a novel that at the core is English after...
...confused with A. S. M. Hutchinson, who wrote If Winter Comes...
...ONCE YOU WERE-A. S. M. Hutchinson-Little, Brown...
Robert Hichens' The Garden of Allah, published in 1904, when he was 40, has sold about a million copies. Arthur Stuart Menteth Hutchinson's If Winter Comes, published in 1921, when he was 42, sold 558,649 copies in the U. S. alone. Last week their latest novels (Hichens' 36th, Hutchinson's tenth) served chiefly as reminders that these once tremendously popular novelists were still alive. They also served as reminders that best-selling novels, while still frequently inexplicable, now show a big improvement over those of the last generation...