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...LONDON OMNIBUS?Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). 1,400 pages of novels, stories, essays, plays, poems by A. P. Herbert (The Water Gypsies), Somerset Maugham (Rain), Virginia Woolf (Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown). Noel Coward (Private Lives), Aldous Huxley (The Cicadas & Other Poems}. 13 other famed Londoners, reprinted from original plates, August choice of the Literary Guild...
Maloney, the winner of the second prize, wrote on "Aldous Huxley and the Novel of Ideas", in which he pointed out the limitations of the novel of ideas, but illustrated its individual importance as the caprice of a fertile mind. Maloney lives in Newton Center and prepared at the Newton High School. He has contributed an article to the forthcoming June issue of the "Graduates' Magazine", entitled "Minority Report on the Untouchables...
Died. Sir Patrick Geddes, 78, biologist, sociologist, philosopher, pioneer city planner; in Montpellier, France. Trained in biology under Thomas Huxley, he quickly achieved fame in his subject, then focused this knowledge on sociology. For the solution of social problems he labored to find a calculus as Leibnitz and Newton had found one to solve mathematical problems. Led by his environmental interpretation of evolution to college and town planning, he designed the Hebrew University building in Jerusalem, reconstructed the slums of Edinburgh, laid out Rabindranath Tagore's university in Bengal. Correlator of the arts and sciences, he wrote Evolution...
...Huxley", Professor Rollins, Emerson...
...dreaming of dead friends and the sea. The Author. Englishman Leonard Alfred George Strong's first literary effort was a Chaucerian ballad about a sow named, after his grandmother, Amelia. This attracted his family's attention, but it was not until after he met up with Aldous Huxley, Robert Graves. Richard Hughes and Edmund Blunden at Oxford that his literary talent became widely recognized. A sometime theatrical cartoonist, ballad singer, actor, broadcaster, teacher, he now devotes all his time to writing. Other books: Dewer Rides, The Jealous Ghost, The English Captain, The Garden...