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...MASTER OF THE HOUSE-Radclyffe Hall-Cape &; Ballon ($2.50). By means of a simple but elaborated style Authoress Hall diffuses throughout her book a balmy neo-Biblical atmosphere, like that of George Moore's The Brook Kerith. Like that book, The Master of the House treats of the Christ story; but Authoress Hall, longtime a Council member of the Society for Psychical Research, has ideas about Christ that would wilt Materialist Moore. She leaves the historic Christ alone, merely shows, how, in one of his characters, a boy chances to reincarnate the psychic Christ. In the little Provengal town...
Without once mentioning His name (Lawrence calls Him simply "the man who died") this anti Christian searcher after Christ tells what might have happened to Jesus if He did not really die on the cross. As with George Moore's hero in The Brook Kerith, the agony of the crucifixion and the coma of the burial stripped the Man of his Messiahship. Moore's hero in his revulsion thought he had been wrong: Lawrence's, that his mission was finished. Lawrence's Man showed himself to his disciples but would have nothing more to do with...
...Darling"; C. A. Eastman, "From the Deep Wood to Civilization"; H. A. Franck, "Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras"; O. L. Hatcher, "A Book for Shakespeare's Plays and Pageants"; H. S. Kerrick, "Military and Naval America"; M. Maeterlinck, "The Wreck of the Storm"; G. Moore, "The Brook Kerith"; C Morton, "The Art of Theatrical Makeup"; J. Masefield, "Gallipoli"; B. Matthews, "A Book About the Theatre"; W. J. Locke, "The Wonderful Year"; E. P. Oppenheim, "The Austrian Court from Within"; W. Roberts, "Book-Verse"; F. W. Seward, "Reminiscences of a War-Time Statesman and Diplomat"; E. H. Southern, "The Melancholy...
...Cuthbert Wright contributes under the title "The Gospel According to George Moore," a brief discussion of the novelist's daring "The Brook Kerith." The world is probably divided into two groups: the people who are bound to be shocked by the book and the people who are naturally disposed to be deeply interested by it. Mr. Wright is of the latter group. His praise is nevertheless discriminating, and he deals sympathetically with the qualities in the author that enable him to see ancient Syria through modern eyes...