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Last week, while its author sunned himself in Italy with sophisticated and sympathetic Novelist-Essayist Aldous Leonard Huxley, news came that another Lawrence venture had riled English moralists. In London since mid-June there has been a first exhibition of Mr. Lawrence's adventures into painting. Two titles were typical: A Boccaccio Story, A Flight with An Amazon. Thousands of Londoners have seen them. Critics have snorted: "Repellent and distorted nudes . . . compel most spectators to recoil in horror...
...mind that these are popular and "sell" and also that they are "classics"--beyond a human doubt. De Morgan is your modern Dickens and in place of Charles Lamb there is Max Beerbohm and a worthy modern equivalent he is. Follow him with James Stephens, possibly Machen, and Aldous Huxley. Hudson leads us to Cunninghame, Graham, and Shaw. For Jane Austen we shall have (let us hope) David Garnett and for Leslie Stephen, Lytton Strachey! It will not be as easy to follow the literary scientists and philosophers; somehow William James and Santayana and Bertrand Russell do not suggest...
...HUXLEY has done satire on the human scene before this, but never on such a large scale, or perhaps so well. The disconnected bits that he pieces together in "Point Counter Point" to make what he calls a novel do make a pattern of sorts, which gives ample illustration, or corroboration, as the case may be, of his ideas on the futility of human endeavor...
...have never cared too much for these books about conventional London society. They have always seemed to us too artificial, too impressed with the sense of their own originality and wickedness. But Mr. Huxley, while he has enough originality and enough wickedness, makes his characters at once human or ridiculous, or both, much more than Michael Arlen or some others, and for that reason he will generally be one of our enthusiasms...
...number of sharp prods that Mr. Huxley can get in at things like art, science, and theology in his process of dissection is amazing and thoroughly delightful. The old nobleman who seeks to find God in his grotesque experiments with lizards is typical of the men Mr. Huxley finds in the learned pursuits. The four hundred pages of the book are four hundred pages, but they are readable enough...