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...those days Andre Maurois wrote: ". . . There was an immediate clash between the morbid susceptibilities of Monsieur Desjardins . . . the diabolical maliciousness of Gide. . . . The Germans . . . enveloped the lucid ideas of the Frenchmen in ... abstractions . . . Lytton Strachey ... in amazement at our lack of humor . . . went to sleep. ... Its virtues far outweighed its drawbacks. . . . There was talk of giving Paul Desjardins the Nobel Prize for Peace...
...Carl . . . was The-Book-of-the-Munch-Club . . . the giver-away of a mahogany Britannica with every subscription." He gave Munch-Club readers: "Elizabeth and Sex by Lytton Scratchy, John Brown's Benny by Steve Brody, The Bridge of San Louis Bromfield by Ray Long, A Farewell to Farms by Mark van Doorman, How to be Happy: A Preface to Morons by Walter B. Pipkin, Pfui D., Tristram Coffin, a finespun obituary by Edwinson Arlington Cemetry, Black Majesty by Dark van Moron, The Life of Joseph Wood Peacock by his uncle Doc van Doren, and Training the Giant Pander...
...Bulwer-Lytton was Tauchnitz's first author. Soon the library published Dickens, Scott, Charlotte Bronte, Macaulay, Thackeray, Carlyle, Trollope, George Eliot. Later it published Thomas Hardy, Bernard Shaw, John Galsworthy. Sinclair Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, Zane Grey, Kathleen Norris were among its most popular U.S. writers. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes sold 100,000 copies...
Victoria's Heir, a life of Edward VII, is almost worthy to be a sequel to Lytton Strachey's Queen Victoria, for the stuffy, portentous Victorian age seems peculiarly able to inspire some of the best writing of the 20th Century. The late Lytton Strachey's roguish mandarinism seemed gently but fatally borne along on the undertow of a dying civilization. George Dangerfield writes with the desperate blandness of a man who has heard even in the U.S. (where he has resided since 1931) the thud of London's falling walls and the stridency of gutting...
...furthered Japanese imperialist expansion in Manchuria and North China, Yosuke Matsuoka was just the man to explain to the world Japan's case after Japan seized Manchuria in 1931. He was sent as chief delegate to the Plenary Session of the League of Nations, which was considering the Lytton Report on the China-Japan conflict. There he conducted a dramatic rearguard campaign in a series of unconventional, eloquent, unrehearsed speeches in which he dragged in even Christ...