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...Channel, latest book of Ludwig Lewisohn, famed autobiographer, contains a bitter word-portrait of a woman. Mrs. Mary Arnold Lewisohn, the wife from whom Author Lewisohn has been separated since 1925, charged that the portrait was intended to be of herself. She sued for $200,000 libel. Harper & Bros., publishers of the novel, moved that Mrs. Lewisohn's complaint be dismissed. Last week Justice Peter Schmuck of the New York State Supreme Court, ruling on this motion, said: "Although for the most part the book is the gibberish ego of a selfish sentimentalist, and . . . the feverish exhalations of a perverted...
...Lewisohn. "There is none. Very well...
...Lewisohn has found "all knowledge and worldly wisdom"; embodied in Hebraism, "righteousness, humanity, and peace.'' These are the permanent values he has resolved to serve, believing that a synthesis of Hellenism and Hebraism is the hope of the world. Christianity has no place-Pauline Christianity which Mr. Lewisohn identifies with the divorce laws of New York and therefore with the root of his troubles. "My country and its Christian laws have no regard for love or virtue or the creative mind but give their support to legalized malignity and moral foulness if only these mouth the moral saws...
...Stream, Mr. Lewisohn began the spiritual autobiography of a Jew who, conventionally educated in South Carolina, flung his religious ardor into Methodism, progressed miraculously into free thought, attained at last an understanding of his Jewishness. Immersed for seven years in the cause of Zionism, he resumes in Mid-Channel the intimate personal chronicle of himself as a Jew wandering over the face of Europe...
...Lewisohn's meaning is often obscure, his message occasionally fanatical, but the consistent dignity and rhythm of his prose are hypnotic. Mr. Lippmann's meaning, on the contrary, is always clear, his message pragmatic, his diction incisive, effective...