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BLACK Is MY TRUELOVE'S HAIR-Elizabeth Madox Roberts-Viking...
That Elizabeth Madox Roberts was lost in one of these treacherous literary culs-de-sac became painfully clear to most critics three years ago, when she published her obscure, mystical novel, He Sent Forth a Raven. A difficult, humorless book, it had nothing of the earthiness and quiet backwoods simplicity that made her first novel, The Time of Man, a best-seller and a critic's favorite. Instead of plain Kentucky hill folks, its characters were strange, unreal philosophers who explained at great length, in highly polished sentences, that they did not know what it was all about...
...lives down her disgrace in her home town. Weakened by a few cloudy, symbolical passages, Black Is My Truelove's Hair is nevertheless a lively story, and Dena Janes is a right pretty girl. But to her admirers the book's biggest news is that Elizabeth Madox Roberts is out of her blind alley and safe again in her old Kentucky home...
...MARCH OF LITERATURE - Ford Madox Ford-Dial...
...mothers' proverb, referring to boys' chores, says that "Two boys are only half a boy." This saying applies also to most literary collaborations, even to those of such individually able collaborators as were Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford. To Tahiti-Expatriates Nordhoff & Hall, who in 18 years have collaborated on eight books, it applied least in their H. M. S. Bounty trilogy, where they followed a true story, applies most in The Dark River, where they follow their imaginations, the Satevepost (where this story ran serially) and Hollywood...