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When 17-year-old Sebastian Barnack, adolescent poet-hero of Aldous Huxley's new novel, arrived in Florence, Italy, he found life in the British colony revolving in oldtime Huxleyan fashion...
Rascals and Homilies. Out of these characters, plus odds & ends of art comment and lengthy interpolations on issues of politics and society, Aldous Huxley has fashioned one of the most peculiar novels of his career. Two-thirds of Time Must Have a Stop concerns the period-and is written in the sparkling, scathing style-of his famed satirical Point Counter-Point and Antic Hay. The other third presents Author Huxley's latest religious beliefs...
...Patrick had been a student under great Biologist Thomas Huxley. He was one of those versatile men who are referred to every decade as "the last Renaissance man." When he felt that his scientific writings were detracting from his civic obligations, Geddes switched to town-planning and slum clearance in Edinburgh. Because he believed that Scotland owed a great debt to Hindu philosophy, Geddes taught hygiene and town-planning in India for ten years. He was "one of the fathers of modern geography," and author of such classic studies as The Evolution of Sex, Chapters in Modern Botany. The essential...
...Charles Kingsley, brought them a novel he had written called Westward Ho! "The right article and no mistake!" cried Alexander. He was dead right. Two years later the brothers hit the jackpot again with Thomas Hughes's Tom Brown's Schooldays. Soon they added Thomas Huxley and Matthew Arnold to their list, gained wide prestige with Palgrave's Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics and The Cambridge Shakespeare...
...Aldous Huxley ranks these works with other final achievements of great artists-Beethoven's last quartets, the last poems of Yeats, the later paintings of El Greco. In the Goyas, Huxley sees a vision of "the unplumbed depths of original sin and original stupidity. . . . We are in a world of demons, witches and familiars . . . wholly disquieting inasmuch as it reveals the sort of thing that goes on in the squalid catacombs of the human mind...