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...MARRIAGE AND ME?Peggy Hopkins Joyce?Macaulay...
...those books' which people say they must read some time, and never read at all." No poet, Newman wrote (while still an Anglican) one of the most famed of English hymns, "Lead, Kindly Light." His prose was praised by Purist Walter Pater. One of his sermons Thomas Babington Macaulay knew by heart, and George Eliot could not quote it without tears...
...NATURAL MOTHER-Dominique Dunois-Macaulay ($2.50). This book was awarded the 1929 Prix Femina-Vie Heureuse, a cash prize of 5,000 francs offered annually by the two French magazines of that name. That it won the prize merely indicates that the French are not always so gay. Neither a cheerful nor an aphrodisiac story, its flaming jacket suggests that at least it has its lickerish moments. Not so. A stout French peasant lass, Georgette Garou, knows what she wants and goes after it with few words and indomitable dignity. She wants to keep her farm, to get a husband...
...AMERICAN CARAVAN-Edited by Alfred Kreymborg, Lewis Mumford, Paul Rosenfeld-Macaulay...
Famous men guided the Review on its iconoclastic career. Historian Thomas Babington Macaulay, once the magazine's star reviewer, was known as "chief executioner." Essayist William Hazlitt, Novelist William Makepeace Thackeray, Prophet Thomas Carlyle, Novelist Walter Scott were contributors...