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THAT NICE YOUNG COUPLE-Francis Hackett - Boni, Liveright ($2.00). Floundering fearfully through the litter of spare adjectives, similes and metaphors that has been accumulating in his office for years, Critic Hackett of The New Republic and elsewhere finally gets his first novel out in the open and into sustained motion on Page 245, where childless Eleanor Byrd Beale from the Middle West is about to meet Demi-Artist Stephen Tannay from the South, fall really in love for the first time in her life and be willfully unfaithful to her husband, Lawyer Edward Beale of Brooklyn, Harvard and Manhattan...
...NEWER SPIRIT-V. F. Calverton -Boni, Liveright ($2.50). This author applies to contemporary letters a new theory of criticism. The approach is sociological, the method scientific. "Revolutions in aesthetics," he says, "are due to revolutions in ideas, but every revolution in ideas is due to a revolution in the social structure." It was the invention of the steam-engine that made people interested in the tragedies of factory girls, the amours of merchants, when only those of monarchs had before satisfied them. His attack is directed chiefly against those critics who subscribe to Stuart P. Sherman's affecting doctrine...
WILBUR THE HAT-Hendrik Van Loon-Boni, Liveright ($3.50). Wilbur, a hat blown into Kingdom Come, found himself drifting down one of the principal waterways of that monarchy accompanied by a certain cricket. Wilbur saw a pile of debris ("The ancient Gods," said Cricket, "who had meant so much for so long that people could not let them be sold for junk"), the greatest of the world's builders, a whittling man (Stradivari), a place that smelled of onions (the Acropolis), a resigned figure absolutely alone on an island the size of a dollar (Jesus Christ). Irritated with...
...STEPCHILDREN-Sarah Gertrude Millin-Boni, Liveright ($2.00). The literature of miscegenation, as written by whites, insists that bearers of black blood are inevitably bearers of sorrow and shame. Here a black-brown-yellow sequence is put in motion -'amid veld, Boers, oxen and other carefully-selected South African atmosphere-by a gaunt, buck-toothed missionary to the Hottentots. His act is a kind of sexual piety. His seed, of whom Mrs. Millin tells with Old Testament-like baldness, power and monotony, continue ashamed until an octoroon of the fourth generation "passes over"-that is, becomes white enough...
...STREET OF THE EYE-Gerald Bullet-Boni Liveright ($2.00). Simmering, sizzling, boiling, gurgling, spitting, the fear of God bubbled like Hell's lava in the head of Bellingham; it drove him out of bed and across the arid plains of Hell under a sky monotonously grey except where the sun, a bloody red, like a huge socket from which the eye had been torn, stared sightlessly at him. In this story, the first and most powerful in the book, Mr. Gerald Bullet adeptly spins out mystification until it becomes mysticism. The Enchanted Moment tells how a certain gnome made...