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Brainard Cheney follows his Lightwood (TiME, Oct. 30, 1939) with a book which puts him high among the strictly regional novelists-a book so good (when it is) that its weaknesses are doubly deplorable. Through the career of Hero Rutliff ("Snake") Sutton, Cheney tells the history of raftsmanship along Georgia's Oconee and Altamaha Rivers, and describes the business of lumbering in Darien, on the Georgia coast, toward the end of the last century...
...LIGHTWOOD - Brainard Cheney -Houghton Mifflin...
...Lightwood, a first novel, is the account of 16 years (1874-1890) of war between a northern lumber corporation and squatters who, since the early 19th Century, have inhabited the pine barrens of southern Georgia. It carries the Corn family (squatters) through the whole of it-lawsuits, fraudulent surveying, sabotage, murder, abortive revolution-and, on the side, develops some creditable focuses in the enemy camp and in the mind of an ambitious and unscrupulous small town lawyer. By the time it is over Micajah Corn has lost nearly everything a human being can lose and stay alive; the company, inevitably...
...father incapable of restraining his vomit over the 19-day corpse of his son), brutality (a man's foot pinning a fighting woman to the earth by her pregnant belly), without any slackening into the merely melodramatic. He achieves all this in a dulled, plainfeatured, transparent prose. Lightwood has the unimpeachable honesty, goodness, flatness, of a mouthful of cold, excellent corn bread...
WILL the person who took by mistake, a cotton umbrella with lightwood handel, from Memorial Hall, after lunch Tuesday, please return it to H. H. Baker, 30 Holyoke street...