Word: huxley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ALDOUS HUXLEY-Alexander Henderson-Harper ($2.50). A critical biography of a writer who, Author Henderson thinks, has not been taken as seriously as his work warrants...
...MAUROIS has chosen for his subjects under the title "Prophets and Poets" those contemporary English writers who "have played an important part in the spiritual moulding of one or two generations of human beings." These essays on the life and thought of Kipling, Wells, Shaw, Chesterton, Conrad, Strachey, Lawrence, Huxley, and Katherine Mansfield were first delivered as lectures to French audiences, and most of them suffer from the exigencies of their original purpose. Again and again an indigestibly large amount of biographical data is crammed into a study, followed by a series of extracts from the work of the writer...
Much more congenial subjects for M. Maurois' pen are Lytton Strachey, Aldous Huxley, and Katherine Mansfield. His account of the way in which Strachey "reinstated Cllo among the Muses" is illuminating; and though he is delighted when Strachey in such portraits as "Lady Hester Stanhope" makes history seem "almost like a symbolist poem," he is aware that the truest history is never to be found in such portraits. On the interference of too much scientific knowledge and a too scientific point of view in the fiction of Huxley, M. Maurois is very just. And his analysis and estimate...
...buys 80,000,000 Ib. of tea a year, for which it pays $16,000,000. Only Great Britain consumes more. To make U. S. inhabitants even more ardent tea drinkers has long been the aim of the International Tea Market Expansion Board in general, and Mr. Gervas Huxley in particular. Mr. Huxley, the tweedy common denominator of all Englishmen, is Novelist Aldous Huxley's cousin and the director of the famed BUY BRITISH campaign. Late in 1934 Mr. Huxley, along with a Dutchman and a veteran British tiger-hunter, arrived in the U. S. Mr. Huxley represented...
...Europe, pictures him as the frail, pugnacious son of adoring parents. At the age of 26 he became pastor of the United Congregational Church in fashionable Newport, married happily, got involved in church politics, taking his father's side in intrachurch squabbles, wrote a thundering attack on Huxley, whom he accused of ignorance, insincerity and arrogance. Moving to the Brick Presbyterian Church in New York, Henry van Dyke became a leader in a church reform movement, a vital issue which at that time attracted much newspaper attention. Hostile to ministers who took part in politics, he nevertheless advocated sound...