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MEMORIES OF MY CHILDHOOD-Selma Lagerlöf-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). For human character, as for meat, salt preservative. Selma Lagerlöf is an old lady but she is salty. Best-loved Swedish writer, she is no Pollyanna but a wideawake female citizen whose rose-colored spectacles sometimes conceal but rarely lessen the knowing twinkle in her eye. Far enough removed from her own childhood (she is 75) to be forgivably sentimental about it, she writes with her accustomed sub-humorous kindliness of the little girl she was. Readers who missed the first volume of her reminiscences (Marbacka...
...Author Lagerlöf is too good a narrator and too modest a person to make herself the heroine of her story. The other members of her family circle and many a kindly-remembered friend bulk quite as large in her story. Pastor Unger always came to call when the house was upset, and made confusion worse confounded without annoying anybody. When the parish he had always pined for fell vacant he refused to apply, because he thought another man should have the post, but he gave himself the satisfaction of nearly applying. He appeared at the registrar...
...RING OF THE LÖWENSKÖLDS- Selma Lagerlof-Doubleday, Doran ($3). Selma Lagerlöf (pronounced "Lahgerlef") has a broad, Scandinavian face with a broad thin mouth that is so straight it looks as if it turned down a little at the corners. She wears her grey hair piled up in a plain, old-fashioned pompadour. Her eyes are steely, steady. A little dimple in her left cheek keeps her from looking like a pretty grim old party. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1909). She is the only woman among...
...wensköld who rescued Karl Arthur from the woman who was dragging him down, persuaded him to go to Africa as a missionary, eventually got Anna to join him there. Like most human arrangements the upshot of these lives was a patched-up compromise; but thanks to Selma Lagerlöf you feel the best has been made of a universally bad bargain. The Ring of the Löwenskölds is the Literary Guild choice for January...
...Gosta Berling, made in Sweden several years ago, brought the disturbing face of Greta Garbo to the notice of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Co. Lars Hanson (here Gosta Berling, an unfrocked Swedish preacher in love with a Count's wife in a Nobel Prize story by Selma Lagerlöf) came to Hollywood with her but quarreled with directors, protested against the stupidity of the roles they gave him, went back to Stockholm where he is now a leading "legit" actor. Miss Garbo, too, after immediate success, showed temperament but was soothed. In this picture, awkwardly constructed, ludicrously titled...