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PORTRAITS IN MINIATURE-Lytton Strachey-Harcourt, Brace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Headmaster | 7/27/1931 | See Source »

...Lytton Strachey, who started a new school of biography, is still headmaster of it. Learned dilettante of history, he is no ghoulish exhumer of dead facts but a mildly malicious wizard who summons very lifelike ghosts. Says he: "The virtues of a metaphysician are the vices of a historian. A generalized, colorless, unimaginative view of things is admirable when one is considering the law of causality, but one needs something else if one has to describe Queen Elizabeth." That Something Else, as every Stracheyite knows, Strachey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Headmaster | 7/27/1931 | See Source »

...Author. If you had never seen a picture of Giles Lytton Strachey you would never think from reading his books that he is spindle-shanked and spectacled, with a long red beard and a falsetto voice. Cousin of the late John St. Loe Strachey, editor of the London Spectator, Lytton Strachey first made a name for himself by writing Landmarks in French Literature (1912); nine years later Queen Victoria made him a bestseller. Unmarried, 51, Strachey lives in London but goes to the country to work; "it isn't so much the noises of London that prevent concentration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Headmaster | 7/27/1931 | See Source »

...Didn't Lippmann discover John Maynard Keynes (Economic Consequences of Peace) for America? Wasn't it upon his advice that Harcourt, Brace & Co. published Keynes's book with a resultant sale far above anyone's expectations? And wasn't Mr. Keynes an intimate of Lytton Strachey? And wasn't that why Harcourt Brace got Strachey and his Queen Victoria and thereafter the whole boodle of best selling Strachian biography...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 13, 1931 | 4/13/1931 | See Source »

...Scandrett Jr., socialite nephew of Senator Dwight Whitney Morrow; secretly, last month; in Towson, Md. From Col. Thomas Mrs. Thomas inherited riches (she sued successfully for her one-third dower-right) and the morning Telegraph, Broadwayish sporting sheet (she dynamically edited for two years). In 1927 she married Col. Lytton Gray Ament, introduced to her by Queen Marie of Rumania, honeymooned with him as the Queen's guest, divorced him last May for mental cruelty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 2, 1931 | 3/2/1931 | See Source »

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