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Julian S. Huxley, famous biologist of King's College, London, and Lowell lecturer this year, will speak in Sanders Theatre on the topic of "Ants and Men" at 8 o'clock tomorrow evening. The address, given under the auspices of the Society of Sigma XI, will be open to the public...
...LETTERS OF D. H. LAWRENCE? With an Introduction by Aldous Huxley ?Viking...
Lawrence himself, says friendly Editor Aldous Huxley, cared nothing for even literary immortality. Though he was no journalist, he wrote out of an immediate need for what he felt should be an immediate audience. "It was characteristic of him that he hardly ever corrected or patched what he had written. ... If he was dissatisfied ... he rewrote." Consequently his letters read more naturally than most authors'. In this 893-page collection, from which letters to Mabel Dodge Luhan (Lorenzo in Taos) are notably absent, you may follow his eleven-year hegira over Europe, Australia, the U. S., trace the progress...
...love. When she knew she was going to have a baby she left Clifford, who would not really mind, as he was beginning to have an infantile passion for his middle-aged nurse. The story ends with Connie making plans to go away somewhere, sometime, with Mellors. Aldous Huxley calls Lady Chatierley's Lover "a strange and beautiful book; but inexpressibly sad."What he would call this version of it will doubtless never be printed...
What Aldous Huxley was to the generation still anxiously calling itself "young," Evelyn Waugh is becoming to the present. Less serious than Huxley but more religious (he has lately become a Roman Catholic), more scandalously funny but less satirical, he writes less like an insulated Englishman than like a French cosmopolite. Author Waugh recently traveled to Abyssinia, to Ras Tafari's coronation, wrote a disappointingly half-serious book about it (They Were Still Dancing, TIME, Dec. 14). In Black Mischief he returns to the subject of Negro majesty, does it up black & blue in true Waugh style...